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Festivals

1974 NYFF Preview: The Phantom of Liberty

By Richard Roud
October 2, 2015
From the September/October 1974 issue: advance praise for Luis Buñuel's visceral and surreal film, then titled The Spectre of Liberty

NYFF Interview: Ana Vaz

By Aily Nash
September 29, 2015
Consumed: the director of Projections selection Occidente and winner of the Kazuko Trust Award traces the tortuous colonial history of Portugal and Brazil and its present-day remnants

Cannes Interview: Miguel Gomes

By Nicolas Rapold
September 29, 2015
Keep talking: the Portuguese filmmaker chats about Arabian Nights, his crazy-quilt three-volume work in Directors' Fortnight

Interview: Guy Maddin and Evan Johnson

By Nicolas Rapold
September 25, 2015
The Canadian co-directors behind the wild film pastiche The Forbidden Room and the perverse making-of Bring Me the Head of Tim Horton discuss making a movie in front of an audience

Festivals: Telluride

By Eugene Hernandez
September 10, 2015
True stories: the standouts from this year's mountainside fest came from history or deeply personal experience

The Infernal, Ecstatic Desire Machine of Guy Maddin

By Jonathan Romney
September 3, 2015
Too much is just right in The Forbidden Room, the movie-mad filmmaker’s latest feat of phantasmagorical cinema

Blast from the Past

By Nick Pinkerton
September 3, 2015
George Eastman House’s new annual celebration keeps a venerable but vibrant medium alive

Killer Technique

By Aliza Ma
September 3, 2015
Returning in full force with The Assassin, Hou Hsiao-hsien explains how he summons wondrous beauty and piercing realism from an ancient genre

Interview: Sergio Oksman and Carlos Muguiro

By Nick Pinkerton
August 25, 2015
In the company of men: a father and son reconnect in the shadow of the World Cup in O Futebol, an uncommonly insightful study of a family

Locarno Interview: Otar Iosseliani

By Nick Pinkerton
August 19, 2015
Revolutionary spirit: the Georgian director talks about war, wine, cinema, and how he made Chant d’hiver, his latest stylized, darkly comic panorama