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Festivals

Locarno Interview: Anocha Suwichakornpong

By Kelley Dong
August 19, 2016
The kaleidoscope of history: the Thai director of By the Time It Gets Dark discusses her discursive, critical approach to filmmaking

Festivals: Il Cinema Ritrovato

By Dan Sullivan
July 25, 2016
All aboard: the invaluable Bologna showcase of preservation and restoration efforts becomes a mob scene of the most rarefied order

Rebel Rebel

By Nicolas Rapold
July 5, 2016
Renegades and free spirits fueled some of the best Cannes selections

The Shock of the Real

By Kent Jones
July 5, 2016
The art of life as lived shined through at Cannes

In the Desert of Digital

By Amy Taubin
July 5, 2016
Art, ghosts, and rock’n’roll made up for awards-night travesties

Festivals: Oberhausen

By Genevieve Yue
June 7, 2016
Art-world interventionism: the 62nd edition of the venerable shorts festival tackled the question of programming versus curation

Cannes Dispatch #5: Awards, Howards End, and The Cinema Travelers

By Eugene Hernandez
May 23, 2016
On the hotly contested awards and two crowd-pleasers screening in the Classics section

Cannes Notebook: Love Thy Neighbor

By Nicolas Rapold
May 19, 2016
Here comes everybody: on the national character studies in Andrea Arnold’s American Honey, Alain Guiraudie’s Staying Vertical, and Mehmet Can Mertoglu’s Album

Cannes Dispatch #1: Café Society and Trolls

By Eugene Hernandez
May 12, 2016
The past is a blueprint for the future: on Woody Allen's nostalgic Café Society and the advanced animated techniques of Trolls

Festivals: Tribeca

By Amy Taubin
May 4, 2016
Wealth gap: in its 15th edition, the oversized festival cruises onward with a few fine films and forays into new platforms