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Carlos Valladares

Cannes Interview: Ryûsuke Hamaguchi

By Carlos Valladares
July 16, 2021
Baby, can’t you see: the director discusses his two 2021 festival standouts Drive My Car and Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy

Feeling Seen: Roberto Gavaldón, Misanthrope

By Carlos Valladares
May 22, 2019
Pity and fear: The Mexican filmmaker takes his rightful place as the evil twin of such cinematic poets of fate as Frank Borzage and Jacques Demy

Feeling Seen: Mi familia

By Carlos Valladares
April 16, 2019
Learning to see: a reflection on a family's complex relationship with moving images

Playing Along: Leonard Rosenman (Edge of the City, 1957)

By Carlos Valladares
February 20, 2019
A master of frenetic mood, the Hollywood composer brought a dark mania to films like the 1957 urban drama Edge of the City

News to Me: The Village Voice Live, Soderbergh, Zhao

By Carlos Valladares
October 4, 2018
Institutional memory: the Village Voice lives! Plus: new films from Steven Soderbergh and Bertrand Bonello, and Wesley Morris on our cultural moment

News to Me: Jerry Lewis’s “Home Movies,” Kasi Lemmons, Annette Michelson

By Carlos Valladares
September 19, 2018
The home office: the comedy legend’s full-fledged films with Dean, Janet Leigh, and Tony Curtis, plus the latest on Marielle Heller and Kasi Lemmons

News to Me: Michael Snow, Rebecca Hall, Paul Verhoeven

By Carlos Valladares
August 13, 2018
Living large: avant-garde titan Michael Snow goes IMAX, Paul Verhoeven gets to a nunnery, Rebecca Hall debuts as director, and Locarno awards