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Festivals: Cartagena

By Violet Lucca
April 1, 2013
Sea, sun, and cinema at the 53rd Festival Internacional de Cine de Cartagena de Indias (FICCI)

Review: The Host

By Max Nelson
March 29, 2013
The adaptation of Stephenie Meyer’s alien-invasion novel panders to anxious t(w)eens, but is that so wrong?

Rep Diary: Le Sang and Early Works

By Aaron Light
March 28, 2013
Film as a subversive art: an Amos Vogel-inspired double feature

Interview: Emil Christov

By Jonathan Robbins
March 26, 2013
An informant for the secret police goes rogue in the Bulgarian director’s Cold War fantasia The Color of the Chameleon

Festivals: True/False

By Nicolas Rapold
March 25, 2013
The small, no-coast documentary festival that actually lives up to its hype

Review: Somebody Up There Likes Me

By Jared Eisenstat
March 25, 2013
Bob Byington's latest anti-hero rambles through love, accompanied by Ron Swanson

Critical Dialogue: Spring Breakers

By Max Nelson
March 21, 2013
Breaking bad: Harmony Korine stares into the abyss of St. Petersburg, FL

Rep Diary: Le Pont du Nord

By Max Nelson
March 19, 2013
"Don't try to understand": another look at Jacques Rivette's Le Pont du Nord

Review: Philip Roth: Unmasked

By Emma Myers
March 18, 2013
Does Philip Roth have yichus or bupkes? PBS investigates.

Trailer: Michel Gondry’s Mood Indigo

By Film Comment
March 15, 2013
A marriage made in heaven: Michel Gondry's adaptation of Boris Vian's L'Écume des Jours