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Festivals

Interview: Mark Jenkin

By Chloe Lizotte
March 27, 2019
Fresh catch: the rough-hewn Bait keenly portrays a displaced and reconfigured working-class community in coastal Britain

Interview: Sofia Bohdanowicz & Deragh Campbell

By Jordan Cronk
March 19, 2019
It's relative: the directors of MS Slavic 7 on the use of biography and the strange experience of playing a version of your director on screen

Apropos de Cannes

By Nelly Kaplan
March 18, 2019
The renowned writer and filmmaker reports on a festival full of noise and fury

Berlinale 2019 Dispatch

By Jordan Cronk
March 4, 2019
State of transition: this year's highlights point toward a welcome renewal for the venerable festival

The Truth Hurts

By Amy Taubin
March 1, 2019
Read Taubin's take on Honeyland, screening this week at New Directors/New Films, among other festival standouts

Rotterdam 2019 Dispatch

By Jordan Cronk
February 21, 2019
"I’m not a filmmaker. I just made a film": new films from José Celestino Campusano, Jang Woojin, and Romina Paula highlight the festival

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

Sundance Dispatch: Midnight Family & The Infiltrators

By Devika Girish
February 11, 2019
Broken systems: two Sundance films highlight the breakdowns that occur when the public good meets the free market

Oakley Hall’s Warlock

By Film Comment
February 8, 2019
The myth of Tombstone: read an excerpt from the source material for Edward Dmytryk’s 1959 CinemaScope classic

Los Reyes: Bettina Perut and Iván Osnovikoff

By James Wham
February 8, 2019
A dog's life: the Chilean filmmakers on their moving, patient doc, screening February 9 in Film Comment Selects