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Things come to a boil between a sheriff and a mayor in a small town during this scene in Ari Aster’s pandemic satire “Eddington.” The sheriff is Joe Cross, played by Joaquin Phoenix, who has long had a rivalry with Mayor Ted Garcia (Pedro Pascal). Cross is now running for mayor and has said some damaging things about Garcia. At this moment, Cross arrives to address a noise complaint at a fund-raising party Garcia is throwing. The party — an outdoor, masked event complete with bottles of Purell and infrared thermometer guns (since the movie takes place in mid-2020) — includes music playing on a loudspeaker: the Katy Perry song “Firework,” which Cross turns down. The scene primarily consists of an extended Steadicam shot. “One thing I like about long unbroken takes is that you can follow the actors around and really just allow them to like live in a space,” Aster said during an interview in New York. “I find Joaquin’s body language here really great, especially when you’re just on his back for so long. Joaquin’s one of those physical actors where, sometimes his back tells you even more than his front.” Although the song “Firework” blares through the scene and becomes a telling soundtrack to the narrative, it wasn’t the director’s first choice of music for this moment. “The original song that we tried to get was ‘Empire State of Mind’ by Jay-Z and Alicia Keys,” Aster said. “I found that to be a very funny song to be playing here, given that it’s a fund-raiser in a small town in New Mexico, and that is a New York anthem. It felt like exactly the kind of song that this character, Ted Garcia, who’s kind of a dweeby politician, would be playing. But ‘Firework’ also works in that regard. I just needed the song to really sound like the culture.” A standoff between the two characters ultimately leads to a moment in which Garcia slaps Cross. “Pedro was nervous about the slap, he didn’t want to hurt Joaquin. And [Pascal] also had a bad shoulder at the time of shooting this,” Aster said. “And so the first couple of takes, he kind of went easy on Joaquin. Then Joaquin confronted him saying, ‘[expletive] hit me!’ And so this is one of the takes where Pedro is giving it.” Read the New York Times review: https://nyti.ms/4lJYM9E Subscribe: http://bit.ly/U8Ys7n More from The New York Times Video: http://nytimes.com/video ---------- Whether it's reporting on conflicts abroad and political divisions at home, or covering the latest style trends and scientific developments, New York Times video journalists provide a revealing and unforgettable view of the world. It's all the news that's fit to watch.

During a tour of the Federal Reserve’s headquarters, President Trump debated with Jerome H. Powell, the Fed chair, over the cost of renovations to the central bank’s headquarters. #fed #federalreserve Read the story here: https://nyti.ms/44YxPbi Subscribe: http://bit.ly/U8Ys7n More from The New York Times Video: http://nytimes.com/video ---------- Whether it's reporting on conflicts abroad and political divisions at home, or covering the latest style trends and scientific developments, New York Times video journalists provide a revealing and unforgettable view of the world. It's all the news that's fit to watch.

Cambodia and Thailand exchanged fire on Thursday. Tensions at the border have been rising for months, contributing to a brewing political crisis in Thailand that helped lead to the suspension of the prime minister, Paetongtarn Shinawatra, this month. #Cambodia #Thailand Read the story here: https://nyti.ms/4f704Jl Subscribe: http://bit.ly/U8Ys7n More from The New York Times Video: http://nytimes.com/video ---------- Whether it's reporting on conflicts abroad and political divisions at home, or covering the latest style trends and scientific developments, New York Times video journalists provide a revealing and unforgettable view of the world. It's all the news that's fit to watch.

New video footage showed a look inside 26 Federal Plaza in New York City, where ICE has held hundreds of migrants for days, with more than a dozen men on the floor atop thin thermal blankets or sitting on benches. It has drawn scrutiny from lawmakers and denials from the Trump administration. #ICE #immigration #NYC Read the story here: https://nyti.ms/4f6Ccpx Subscribe: http://bit.ly/U8Ys7n More from The New York Times Video: http://nytimes.com/video ---------- Whether it's reporting on conflicts abroad and political divisions at home, or covering the latest style trends and scientific developments, New York Times video journalists provide a revealing and unforgettable view of the world. It's all the news that's fit to watch.

An explosion damaged the entrance to a Kyiv subway station where people were sheltering from an air attack. A missile or a drone set an empty kindergarten on fire in the Ukrainian capital, officials said. And a city in western Ukraine endured its heaviest barrage of the war. Russia overnight Monday fired the latest in a series of missile and exploding drone assaults at Ukraine that have steadily escalated in recent months even as cease-fire talks began in the spring. At least two people were killed and 15 others injured, President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine said. #Ukraine #Kyiv #Zelensky #Russia Read the story here: https://nyti.ms/44EzBPY Subscribe: http://bit.ly/U8Ys7n More from The New York Times Video: http://nytimes.com/video ---------- Whether it's reporting on conflicts abroad and political divisions at home, or covering the latest style trends and scientific developments, New York Times video journalists provide a revealing and unforgettable view of the world. It's all the news that's fit to watch.

C-sections are the most frequently performed major surgeries in the world, so why do so many patients feel severe pain during them? Susan Burton, reporter and host of the podcast “The Retrievals,” talks about the alarming number of patients who report feeling significant pain. #health #pregnancy #C-section #podcasts Listen to the series: https://youtu.be/_mhxxCq5Nss Read the story here: https://nyti.ms/3GVkKaE Subscribe: http://bit.ly/U8Ys7n More from The New York Times Video: http://nytimes.com/video ---------- Whether it's reporting on conflicts abroad and political divisions at home, or covering the latest style trends and scientific developments, New York Times video journalists provide a revealing and unforgettable view of the world. It's all the news that's fit to watch.

A Bangladesh Air Force training aircraft crashed onto a school campus in Dhaka, the capital, on Monday afternoon, killing at least 20 people and injuring 171 others, military officials said. Read the story here: https://nyti.ms/3IEuIxC Subscribe: http://bit.ly/U8Ys7n More from The New York Times Video: http://nytimes.com/video ---------- Whether it's reporting on conflicts abroad and political divisions at home, or covering the latest style trends and scientific developments, New York Times video journalists provide a revealing and unforgettable view of the world. It's all the news that's fit to watch.

I didn’t want Donald Trump to be president. But once he was elected, I wondered if his impulse to smash convention could actually do some good in the Middle East. In the Times Opinion video above, I lay out my proposal. The status quo was a nightmare. President Joe Biden’s feckless response to Israel’s blood bath in Gaza epitomized decades of failed, immoral, self-defeating U.S. policy in the region. While tens of thousands of Palestinians died, the United States was lavishing cash and weapons on Israel even as Mr. Biden pretended there was no leverage or influence within his reach. This has been America’s Mideast stance in a nutshell: Talk about peace, feed war. I’ve been watching it since I first reported from Israel and the occupied territories in 2002, in the bad old days of the second intifada. Cycles of unsustainable calm mask political disintegration, then erupt into unthinkable violence. And where have our policies gotten us? The International Court of Justice is deciding whether the killing in Gaza is, in fact, a genocide. We’ve been wading in the edges of war with Iran. The United States is running down its weapon stockpile for an Israeli war that has no discernible (or sensible) end game or a political solution for the Palestinians anywhere on the horizon. This has got to stop — and it can. With some deft diplomacy, Mr. Trump has a generational opportunity to change the dynamics in the Middle East. What might that look like? I gamed out the three major, interlocking deals the president can make if he’s serious about peace and willing to run a tough negotiation. Will he do any of it? Who knows? This is Donald Trump, after all. But he could, and he should. More from Sam Ellis's YouTube channel, Search Party: https://www.youtube.com/@SearchParty More from The New York Times Video: Opinion Video: https://www.nytimes.com/spotlight/opi... Subscribe: http://bit.ly/U8Ys7n Watch all of our videos here: http://nytimes.com/video​​ ---------- Whether it's reporting on conflicts abroad and political divisions at home, or covering the latest style trends and scientific developments, New York Times video journalists provide a revealing and unforgettable view of the world. It's all the news that's fit to watch.