A year-by-year analysis of the films and format of the New York Film Festival, hosted by Ryan Swen.

Latest episodes of the podcast Catalyst and Witness

• 2024 Festival Dispatch #2
• 2024 Festival Dispatch #1
• 2023 Festival Dispatch
• 2022 Festival Dispatch
• 2021 Festival Dispatch #2
• 2021 Festival Dispatch #1
• 18th (1980): "The Earth Strikes Back"
• 17th (1979): "Film Capital of the World"
• 2020 Festival Dispatch #4
• 2020 Festival Dispatch #3
• 2020 Festival Dispatch #2
• 2020 Festival Dispatch #1
• 16th (1978): "A Thousand and One Details"
• 15th (1977): "A Real Smash"
• 2019 Festival Dispatch #3
• 2019 Festival Dispatch #2
• 2019 Festival Dispatch #1
• 14th (1976): "Artistic Freedom"
• 13th (1975): "Celluloid Guerillas"
• 12th (1974): "A World Phenomenon"
• 11th (1973): "Trains in the Night"
• 10th (1972): "The Next Picture Show"
• 9th (1971): "This Year, Who Knows?"
• 2018 Festival Dispatch #3
• 2018 Festival Dispatch #2
• 8th (1970): "The Deluge"
• 7th (1969): "New Site, Same Scene"
• 2018 Festival Dispatch #1
• 6th (1968): "High Drama in Low Key"
• 5th (1967): "To See and Be Seen"
• 4th (1966): "An Exceptionally Personalized Point of View"
• 3rd (1965): "Films: Fashion of the Fashionable"
• 2nd (1964): "All Over the World"
• 1st (1963): "The Film As Art"