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Festivals

This Is Us

By Ashley Clark
September 1, 2017
In Mudbound, an ambitious epic about racial realities in the American South during the World war II era, Dee Rees reminds us that we create the times in which we live

Short Take: The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected)

By Steven Mears
August 30, 2017
(Director: Noah Baumbach, Country/Distributor: USA, Netflix, Opening: October 13)

Short Take: BPM (Beats Per Minute)

By Nick Davis
August 30, 2017
(Director: Robin Campillo, Country/Distributor: France, The Orchard, Opening: October 20)

Cinema ’67 Revisited: The Exterminating Angel

By Mark Harris
August 2, 2017
Up all night to get lucky: Luis Buñuel’s surrealist yarn about aristocrats unable to leave a room is truly timeless

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: The San Francisco Silent Film Festival

By Imogen Sara Smith
July 10, 2017
Never fade away: strong female characters—in front of and behind the camera—brought wanderlust and other passions to the fore

Interview: Alison Maclean and Kerry Fox

By Shonni Enelow
July 3, 2017
The excruciatingness of it all: the director and a star of The Rehearsal tease out the pleasures and risks of stagecraft and watching it all unfold

Keeping at It

By Dennis Lim
July 3, 2017
The fruits and frustrations of labor were on display at Cannes

A Six-Letter Word

By Kent Jones
July 3, 2017
There were still auteurs to celebrate at Cannes, despite the festival’s muddled priorities

Catastrophes on Parade

By Nicolas Rapold
July 3, 2017
The Cannes lineup vied for attention with current events and old habits of brilliance