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Festivals

The Film Comment Podcast: Venice One

By Nicolas Rapold
August 30, 2019
To the moon and back: Jonathan Romney joins to discuss Ad Astra, An Officer and a Spy, Marriage Story, and other hotly awaited (and debated) Venice premieres

Film of the Week: An Officer and a Spy

By Jonathan Romney
August 30, 2019
Courtroom drama: Roman Polanski's latest film, a Venice world premiere, surehandedly recounts the Dreyfus Affair and its story of a French army captain's anti-Semitic persecution

Venice 2019 Cheat Sheet

By Film Comment
August 27, 2019
Looking ahead: an overview of all the features at the 2019 Venice International Film Festival

Dispatch: Karlovy Vary 2019

By Nick Pinkerton
August 6, 2019
Free at last: old specters returned to haunt this year's edition of the Czech festival

Dispatch: FIDMarseille 2019

By Christopher Small
August 1, 2019
Truth in fiction: all the notable films at this year’s festival played fast and loose with the outer limits of their fictions

Festivals: Il Cinema Ritrovato

By Giovanni Vimercati
July 12, 2019
Whose canon?: the festival once again brought to light forgotten, underrated, vanished, or poetically exiled films

Crossing Over

By Dennis Lim
July 1, 2019
A prize-winning triumph at Cannes, Mati Diop’s Dakar-set debut feature Atlantics confirms an oeuvre of elemental immediacy and dreamlike exile

The Highest Stakes

By Amy Taubin
July 1, 2019
Matters of love and war fueled a beguiling and trenchant selection this year at Cannes

Interview: Bertrand Bonello

By Jordan Cronk
June 11, 2019
Dead or alive: the director of Zombi Child on voodoo, the oneiric, and his use of music

Festivals: Oberhausen

By Tina Poglajen
June 10, 2019
Short of time: the 65th edition of the festival returns to its roots of radical cinema politics while simultaneously contradicting them