Film at Lincoln Center has published an October 3 conversation between directors Andrew Haigh and Ira Sachs during the 64th New York Film Festival. The discussion accompanies their Main Slate selections A Long Winter and The Man I Love.
Moderated by festival programmer Madeline Whittle, the conversation addresses the legacy of 1990s New Queer Cinema, the different expressive possibilities of naturalism and melodrama, and the challenge of bringing under-recorded queer histories to contemporary audiences.
The festival page makes the conversation available alongside links to its daily podcast and ticket listings. It offers a direct record of the filmmakers discussing their work; judgments about either film should remain separate from the event summary.