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Interview: Michael Obert and Alex Tondowski

By Violet Lucca
March 18, 2014
The director and producer of Song from the Forest speak about polyphonic music, language, and the challenges of filming in a jungle

Reviews: Guilty of Romance & Himizu

By Marc Walkow
March 18, 2014
Two films by Sion Sono receiving theatrical runs at the Film Society of Lincoln Center follow individuals down into their own private hells

Kaiju Shakedown: The Revolution Gets Televised

By Grady Hendrix
March 14, 2014
Hong Kong up! What's behind a gathering storm that could trigger a new engagement of youth culture with politics in this once-fertile film capital

Rep Diary: Motion(less) Pictures

By Genevieve Yue
March 14, 2014
In the interval: a look at what we're missing when photographic stills are put into sequence, in works by Lucy Raven and Peter Bo Rappmund

Interview: Bertrand Tavernier

By Max Nelson
March 13, 2014
Fast talk: Read this 2014 conversation with the brilliant filmmaker and consummate critic, who passed away on March 25

News Digest 3/12/14

By Gavin Smith
March 12, 2014
One-stop shopping for discerning film news seekers! No mess, no fuss.

Film of the Week: The Grand Budapest Hotel

By Jonathan Romney
March 12, 2014
Darkness visible: is it okay to enjoy Wes Anderson's latest perfectly packaged concoction? Our weekly critic weighs in.

Futures & Pasts: Barabbas

By Nick Pinkerton
March 11, 2014
Haunted: Richard Fleischer's unsung Biblical story of the criminal pardoned instead of Jesus marks a high point in the versatile studio filmmaker's output

Interview: Justine Triet

By Emma Myers
March 9, 2014
Plus ça change: the first-time filmmaker reveals how the acclaimed Age of Panic places her feuding characters in the thick of an actual—and pivotal—Election Day

Interview: Rebecca Zlotowski

By Nicholas Elliott
March 7, 2014
The director of Grand Central, featured in Rendez-Vous with French Cinema, goes nuclear with Léa Seydoux and Tahar Rahim