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Festivals

Festivals: Projections at NYFF

By Irina Leimbacher
November 12, 2014
Signs and wonders: a close look at the re-styled avant-garde program in the New York Film Festival

Landscape After Battle

By Joumane Chahine
October 28, 2014
Survivors picked up the pieces in Toronto

Enigmas

By Laura Kern
October 1, 2014
The remarkable story of a codebreaking genius who helped win World War II, but was undone when his private life was decrypted

Short Takes: The Zero Theorem

By Laura Kern
September 8, 2014
(Terry Gilliam, U.S./Romania/U.K./France, 2013)

Festivals: Jerusalem

By Nick Pinkerton
August 12, 2014
Contested ground: a report from the Jerusalem International Film Festival, unfolding against a wrenching backdrop of real-world drama

Festivals: NewFest

By Matthew Connolly
July 24, 2014
It's not just gay, white, metropolitan guys: the 26th edition of NewFest spans the past and present of the LGBT experience

Festivals: Il Cinema Ritrovato

By David Filipi
July 16, 2014
The 28th edition of Cineteca di Bologna's annual celebration of film preservation provides another superb round of first looks at the past

Aiming True

By Gavin Smith
June 30, 2014
Importance rules, but the real thing shines through

Empire of Light

By Kent Jones
June 30, 2014
Three highlights from Cannes move in poetic and painterly directions

Festivals: Istanbul

By Laya Maheshwari
May 13, 2014
The best of contemporary Turkish and international films shined at this year's fest