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Free Talk: Andrew Haigh & Ira Sachs
Andrew Haigh (A Long Winter) and Ira Sachs (The Man I Love) reflect on the legacy of 1990s New Queer Cinema, the expressive functions of naturalism and melodrama, and the challenges of dramatizing untold histories of queer life for a contemporary audience.
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Over the last three decades, filmmakers Ira Sachs and Andrew Haigh have continuously refined and reinvented the contours of 21st century queer cinema, attending to the lived experiences of their gay protagonists with equal parts transcendent lyricism and emotional precision. For their respective NYFF64 Main Slate selections The Man I Love and A Long Winter, each director mounts a remarkably tender, searching inquiry into the complications of performing masculinity in the face of grief and death, capturing the private rhythms and quiet raptures of queer love as it unfolds against the backdrop of a richly imagined period setting. Join Sachs and Haigh as they reflect on the multifaceted legacy of the 1990s New Queer Cinema, the expressive functions of naturalism and melodrama, and the rhetorical challenges of dramatizing untold histories of queer life for a contemporary audience.
Over the last three decades, filmmakers Ira Sachs and Andrew Haigh have continuously refined and reinvented the contours of 21st century queer cinema, attending to the lived experiences of their gay protagonists with equal parts transcendent lyricism and emotional precision. For their respective NYFF64 Main Slate selections The Man I Love and A Long Winter, each director mounts a remarkably tender, searching inquiry into the complications of performing masculinity in the face of grief and death, capturing the private rhythms and quiet raptures of queer love as it unfolds against the backdrop of a richly imagined period setting. Join Sachs and Haigh as they reflect on the multifaceted legacy of the 1990s New Queer Cinema, the expressive functions of naturalism and melodrama, and the rhetorical challenges of dramatizing untold histories of queer life for a contemporary audience.