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Festivals

The Revolution Will Be Sponsored

By Violet Lucca
April 29, 2014
Navigating the unapologetic schizophrenia of SXSW

The Midnight Hour

By Laura Kern
March 4, 2014
Away from the spotlight, there lurked dark delights

Blow by Blow

By Gavin Smith
March 4, 2014
Most of the highlights and some of the low points from eight days at the IFFR

Festivals: Vienna

By Nicolas Rapold
February 4, 2014
Jean-Marie Straub, James Benning, Richard Linklater, Gonzalo García Pelayo and Mati Diop fit in at the 51st Viennale

Festivals: Yamagata & Tokyo Filmex

By Nicholas Vroman
January 10, 2014
Catching up with two fixtures of Japan’s fall calendar, Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival and Tokyo Filmex

A Tale of Two Festivals

By Olaf Möller
October 28, 2013
Venice’s programming worked in practice but not in theory

Festivals: Toronto Dispatch Two

By Nicolas Rapold
September 15, 2013
Forces of personality and fact-based follies in Quai d’Orsay, Abuse of Weakness, and The Dog

Festivals: Toronto Dispatch One

By Nicolas Rapold
September 12, 2013
The first dispatch from the 2013 Toronto International Film Festival takes a look at two vexing documentaries, The Unknown Known and Tim’s Vermeer

Festivals: Los Angeles (Documentary)

By Robert Koehler
July 10, 2013
Keeping it together: why mingling documentary and narrative is best

Masculin Féminin

By Amy Taubin
July 1, 2013
Sex and death were back with a bang (and a few whimpers) at this year’s Cannes