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Sigourney Weaver and Margaret Qualley in Philippe Falardeau's My New York Year Dir: Philippe Falardeau. Starring: Margaret Qualley, Sigourney Weaver, Douglas Booth, Colm Feore, Brian F O’Byrne. 15 cert, 101 mins In 1995, Joanna Rakoff took a job as a 23-year-old intern at Harold Ober Associates, one of New York City’s oldest literary agencies. Taxed with handling JD Salinger’s large volume of fan mail, she had regular dealings with the notoriously reclusive novelist over the phone, and would write a 2014 memoir about her experiences. That book was called My Salinger Year; since premieri...

“New York!” swoons Margaret Qualley’s Joanna during My New York Year’s prologue. “Isn’t that what aspiring writers did? Live in cheap apartments and write in cafés?” Then she offers a little apologetic sigh. “I know.” Joanna, inevitably, goes on to live in a cheap apartment (one without a sink) and write in cafés; writer-
director Philippe Falardeau’s script, adapting the memoir My Salinger Year by Joanna Rakoff, acknowledges the romanticised cliché of East Coast bohemia without ever escaping it, a continuation of a stereotype rather than a fresh take. This is a com...

I watched three films this past week, searching for something worth writing about. One was really good. One was good. One was terrible. I really enjoyed “My Salinger Year,” a 2020 drama written and directed by French Canadian Philippe Falardeau. Based on Joanna Rakoff’s memoir, the film was released earlier this year and is currently screened on Prime. Rakoff’s character is played by Andie MacDowell’s gorgeous youngest daughter Margaret Qualley, who, with 15 films, has been very busy for her young 25 years. Trained as a ballerina, Qualley played actress/dancer Ann Rei...

The new family film, Raya and the Last Dragon, easily took the top spot at the weekend box office as

  >> Matt Stevens and Sean Piccoli, The New York Times  Published: 08 Mar 2021 11:29 AM BdST Updated: 08 Mar 2021 11:29 AM BdST A moviegoer purchases tickets at the newly reopened Angelika Film Centre on Houston Street in New York, March 5, 2021. For the first time in almost a year, New Yorkers are allowed in front of the big screen again. The New York Times Around 9:45 am Friday morning, the creaky metal awning, that for almost a year had walled off moviegoers from the Angelika Film Centre on Houston Street, rolled up with a lurch. There was the gleaming glass box office with a smiling a...