Festivals

Interview: Dominga Sotomayor

By Pedro E. Segura Bernal

September 10, 2018

Family style: the Chilean filmmaker creates a nuanced portrait of a commune by drawing on her own upbringing

The Turning of the Earth

By José Teodoro

September 10, 2018

Alfonso Cuarón’s richly realized Roma surrounds us with the bourgeois Mexico City of his youth, seen through the eyes of another

Interview: Jodie Mack

By Jordan Cronk

September 7, 2018

Pattern recognition: oh, the places you’ll go with the director of a handmade fabric fantasia on film

Toronto Interview: Tim Sutton

By Amy Taubin

September 7, 2018

Fighting chance: the director of Donnybrook paints a grim vision of rural America through winner-takes-all cage-matches

Venice Interview: Mike Leigh

By Nicolas Rapold

September 5, 2018

Vox populi: Peterloo shows the perilous struggle behind an 1819 democratic protest for voting rights in an era of crushing inequality

Festivals: Venice

By Nicolas Rapold

September 5, 2018

Old hands: the usual distractions of the hype industry on the Lido fortunately can't obscure true grit

Intimations of Mortality

By Nicolas Rapold

September 4, 2018

Monrovia, Indiana, Frederick Wiseman’s postcard from the Midwest, detects the lengthening shadows beyond the all-American sunshine

The Paragon of Animals

By Michael Koresky

September 4, 2018

With their multi-part yarn The Ballad of Buster Scruggs, the Coen Brothers mosey on back to the Old West to survey the eternal disappointment that is man

Venice Film of the Week: ROMA

By Jonathan Romney

August 31, 2018

Family portrait: Alfonso Cuarón re-creates the past on a grand yet intimate scale through the eyes of a Mexico City housekeeper

Law of the Land

By Amy Taubin

August 27, 2018

In Ash Is Purest White, in theaters March 15, Jia Zhangke charts how one woman survives and thrives on the criminal margins