Festivals

Festivals: Venice

By Olaf Möller

December 22, 2016

Punishing the faithless: religion and politics loomed large at the Lido this year

Festivals: Doclisboa 2016

By Leo Goldsmith

December 7, 2016

This year's model: the Portuguese nonfiction festival offered essential portraits of artists, animals, and post-revolutionary Cuba

Festivals: Vienna

By Dan Sullivan

November 30, 2016

Double vision: connecting the dots from new Thai and Italian cinema to Jacques Rivette and Abel Ferrara

Festivals: NewFest 2016

By Manuel Betancourt

October 21, 2016

No holds barred: this year's crop of LGBT films from around the world balance beauty and honesty

The Film Comment Podcast: NYFF 2016 Live Roundtable

By Film Comment

October 18, 2016

Friday night lights: five critics and editors discuss the surprises at this year’s festival

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