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Critical Dialogue: Frances Ha

By Max Nelson
May 24, 2013
Modern love, same as New Wave love? Greta Gerwig and Noah Baumbach collaborate with their cinematic precursors

Cannes by Koehler: Stranger by the Lake

By Robert Koehler
May 24, 2013
Sex on the beach yields cinematic excellence in the hands of under-recognized auteur Alain Guiraudie

Festivals: Stanley Film Festival

By Laura Kern
May 23, 2013
Horror on high at the inaugural edition of the Stanley Film Festival, in the 110-year-old hotel that helped inspire The Shining

Cannes by Koehler: Ilo Ilo, Bends, and The Lunchbox

By Robert Koehler
May 22, 2013
Good old-fashioned sharp storytelling drive three films dramatizing the human cost of East Asia’s continued economic upheaval

Cannes Roundtable One

By Film Comment
May 21, 2013
Amy Taubin, Gavin Smith, Kent Jones, and Marco Grosoli gather at the halfway point of Cannes 2013 to suss out the good, the bad, and the ugly

Cannes: Amy Taubin on Behind the Candelabra

By Amy Taubin
May 21, 2013
Steven Soderbergh’s irresistibly entertaining Liberace biopic comes out on top at Cannes

Cannes by Koehler: Salvo

By Robert Koehler
May 16, 2013
Live from the Croisette, it's Robert Koehler. First up: Sicilian gangster gumption, courtesy of Fabio Grassadonia and Antonio Piazza

Review: Pieta

By Max Kyburz
May 14, 2013
Kim Ki-duk's Catholic phase

Festivals: Tribeca

By Amy Taubin
May 13, 2013
The 12th edition of the festival offered more than just Bub and Bobby brushing shoulders

Rep Diary: Maine-Océan

By Giovanni Marchini Camia
May 10, 2013
Overlooked Nouvelle Vague director Jacques Rozier builds a Tower of Babel by the sea in this forgotten 1985 film