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Dan Sullivan

Can It Be That It Was All So Simple?

By Dan Sullivan
October 31, 2022
The good old days: in Armageddon Time, James Gray offers a new, messily autobiographical spin on his career-long preoccupation with the complexities of family and the quest for autonomy

Interview: Malena Szlam

By Dan Sullivan
June 17, 2019
Time after time: Szlam’s ALTIPLANO calls for a revision of how we talk about landscape in cinema.

Rotterdam 2019 Dispatch

By Dan Sullivan
February 20, 2019
Filling the gaps: there are a lot of gems to be found at a festival that can sometimes get lost in the shuffle

Festivals: Il Cinema Ritrovato

By Dan Sullivan
August 14, 2018
Past is future: the Bologna showcase of revivals and restorations returns triumphantly with adventurous works by Mambéty, De Toth, Dieterle, and more

Festivals: Berlin 2018

By Dan Sullivan
March 13, 2018
On the edge: this year’s competition featured new work from Petzold, Porumboiu, and Hong, as well as new voices from around the world

Festivals: Vienna 2017

By Dan Sullivan
November 29, 2017
The world around us: Valeska Grisebach and other filmmakers screened their inspirations at this year’s edition, which doubled as a memorial

Festivals: Il Cinema Ritrovato 2017

By Dan Sullivan
July 27, 2017
Canon fodder: restorations of under-appreciated directors Med Hondo and Helmut Käutner blessed Bologna’s screens

Festivals: Berlin 2017

By Dan Sullivan
April 11, 2017
Uncertain ground: this year's fest had no choice but to deal with the world's troubles

Short Take: Staying Vertical

By Dan Sullivan
January 3, 2017
(Alain Guiraudie, France, Strand Releasing, Opens January 27)

Festivals: Vienna

By Dan Sullivan
November 30, 2016
Double vision: connecting the dots from new Thai and Italian cinema to Jacques Rivette and Abel Ferrara

NYFF Interview: James N. Kienitz Wilkins

By Dan Sullivan
October 6, 2016
Camera-stylo: the director of Indefinite Pitch and 2016 Kazuko Trust honoree discusses his idiosyncratically sourced cinema

Review: Happy Hour

By Dan Sullivan
September 6, 2016
(Ryusuke Hamaguchi, Japan, August 24)

Festivals: Il Cinema Ritrovato

By Dan Sullivan
July 25, 2016
All aboard: the invaluable Bologna showcase of preservation and restoration efforts becomes a mob scene of the most rarefied order

Interview: Joe Dallesandro

By Dan Sullivan
May 24, 2016
A well-formed career: the actor who worked with Borowczyk, Warhol, Rivette, and Malle discusses his arthouse and hardbody roles

American Friends

By Dan Sullivan
January 4, 2016
A group of playfully iconoclastic collaborators fool around with the essential laws of attraction

Interview: Corneliu Porumboiu

By Dan Sullivan
October 19, 2015
Not in my backyard: the Romanian director of The Treasure talks about precisely fashioning a deadpan comedy that takes the long way home

Interview: Matías Piñeiro

By Dan Sullivan
June 26, 2015
The director of The Princess of France discusses his elastic, idiosyncratic approach to storytelling and the play of language

Interview: Josh & Benny Safdie

By Dan Sullivan
May 26, 2015
Volatile spirits: the directors of NYFF selection Heaven Knows What and Daddy Longlegs discuss the intricate role of actors in their writing process

Rep Diary: Marcel Hanoun

By Dan Sullivan
August 29, 2014
On the radical, influential, and diverse work of a filmmaker who was all too rarely screened (or written about)

Rep Diary: The Ceremony

By Dan Sullivan
May 28, 2014
Inheritance tax: Nagisa Oshima's challenging depiction of a family through its gatherings simmers with relentless psychodrama