The Neuchâtel Intl. Fantastic Film Festival (Nifff) is never afraid to ask questions.
As per tradition, the Swiss genre showcase will frame its annual retrospective through a sociological lens, this year turning its focus to health with a 20-film deep dive cheekily titled Take Care.
“I was struck by an idiom that’s more common in English than in French,” says Nifff artistic director Pierre-Yves Walder. “Telling someone to ‘take care’ can be taken as an order or a veiled threat. At the very least, it feels like an oxymoron, especially when the person being told to do so has little control over their situation. And as always, fantastic cinema provides the perfect space to explore these tension and contradictions between fragility, control, vulnerability and power. That’s where genre thrives!”
‘Coma’
Covering a full century of cinematic malady — exploring how we care for others and ourselves and all the...
As per tradition, the Swiss genre showcase will frame its annual retrospective through a sociological lens, this year turning its focus to health with a 20-film deep dive cheekily titled Take Care.
“I was struck by an idiom that’s more common in English than in French,” says Nifff artistic director Pierre-Yves Walder. “Telling someone to ‘take care’ can be taken as an order or a veiled threat. At the very least, it feels like an oxymoron, especially when the person being told to do so has little control over their situation. And as always, fantastic cinema provides the perfect space to explore these tension and contradictions between fragility, control, vulnerability and power. That’s where genre thrives!”
‘Coma’
Covering a full century of cinematic malady — exploring how we care for others and ourselves and all the...
- 6/27/2025
- by Ben Croll
- Variety Film + TV
The Criterion Collection’s March 2020 lineup has been unveiled, and it’s an epic one. Along with their previously announced Wong Kar Wai box set, they will also release Jacques Rivette’s masterpiece Céline and Julie Go Boating, which was long unavailable in good quality and recently debuted on The Criterion Channel.
Also arriving in March is Mike Leigh’s Palme d’Or winner Secrets & Lies, Albert Brooks’ Defending Your Life (with a new essay by Ari Aster), and, getting a solo release after its inclusion in a World Cinema Project box set, Djibril Diop Mambéty’s Touki Bouki, which we discussed on The Film Stage Show below.
Check out the lineup and special features below, with more details on their official site.
New 2K digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-rayAudio commentary from 2017 featuring critic Adrian MartinJacques Rivette: Le veilleur, a 1994 two-part feature documentary by Claire Denis,...
Also arriving in March is Mike Leigh’s Palme d’Or winner Secrets & Lies, Albert Brooks’ Defending Your Life (with a new essay by Ari Aster), and, getting a solo release after its inclusion in a World Cinema Project box set, Djibril Diop Mambéty’s Touki Bouki, which we discussed on The Film Stage Show below.
Check out the lineup and special features below, with more details on their official site.
New 2K digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-rayAudio commentary from 2017 featuring critic Adrian MartinJacques Rivette: Le veilleur, a 1994 two-part feature documentary by Claire Denis,...
- 12/16/2020
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
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