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Festivals

Recent History

By Kent Jones
May 15, 2011
The past and its representations prove their relevance once again

Cannes 2010

By Melissa Anderson
May 15, 2011
Various torments (some of them pleasurable) along the Croisette, plus a top ten list of films in competition

Online Exclusive: Tribeca Film Festival Year 10

By Amy Taubin
May 10, 2011

The 10-year-old Tribeca Film Festival has become, almost before anyone noticed, as comfortable as an old pair of Campers: a place for friends to meet up at matinees, do some celebrity gawking at the evening galas, or get a jump…

No Beast So Fierce

By Laura Kern
May 9, 2011
David Michôd leads a new pack of Australian filmmakers with Animal Kingdom

No Place Like Home: 2010 Reykjavik International Film Festival

By Laura Kern
May 5, 2011
Laura Kern's dispatch from the film festival from the land of fire and ice

Thinking Inside the Lightbox

By Gavin Smith
May 5, 2011
Programming that’s sometimes a little less than the sum of its parts

Online Exlcusive: Thessaloniki Documentary Film Festival Number 13

By Laura Kern
May 3, 2011

At first glance, the lineup of your typical documentary film festival could easily be mistaken for that of a horror-themed movie event. Torture, murder, economic crises, disease, crippling injury, animal cruelty, and many other varieties of atrocities crop up on…

Being There

By Nicole Armour
April 29, 2011
Paying close attention pays off if you have eyes to see

This Time It’s Personal

By Mark Olsen
April 29, 2011
The overwhelming cornucopia that is the Toronto Film Festival is a lot like life

Rehabilitated

By Amy Taubin
March 10, 2011
New Signs of Life at the Sundance Film Festival