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Festivals

NYFF Interview: Bill Morrison

By Daniel Eagan
October 6, 2016
Panning for nitrate: the director of Decasia returns with Dawson City: Frozen Time, a historical X-ray of a Yukon mining town

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

Venice Interview: Gastón Solnicki

By Nicolas Rapold
October 5, 2016
Frieze of girls: the Argentine director of Kékszakállú applies intuition and Bluebeard to a study of young women at leisure

Interview: Eduardo Williams

By Ela Bittencourt
October 5, 2016
Expressway to your skull: the director of The Human Surge discusses his cinematic peregrinations and digital fascinations

NYFF: Jacques Becker

By Max Nelson
October 3, 2016
Country life: the director of Casque d'Or and Touchez pas au grisbi gets his due with new restorations and Tavernier's My Journey Through French Cinema

Festivals: Toronto

By Michael Koresky
September 20, 2016
Life, the universe, and everything in it: in the vast sea of films at this year's fest, a handful asked the big questions

Telluride 2016 Journal

By Eugene Hernandez
September 13, 2016
Between you and me: on the deeply personal connections explored on and off screen at this year's mountain festival

Festivals: Venice Dispatch #1

By Nicolas Rapold
September 12, 2016
Fascinating creatures: on the aliens and failed dance numbers that tantalized critics early on at this year's fest

Festivals: Locarno

By Jonathan Romney
September 6, 2016
Band of outsiders: this year's lakeside fest boasted strong, strange offerings from Argentina and elsewhere

Constitutional Crisis

By Ashley Clark
September 6, 2016
Ava DuVernay previews her comprehensive documentary on the damning history of mass incarceration of blacks in the United States