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How I Got Kicked Out of the New York Film Festival

By Barry Strugatz
September 13, 2012
The Eighth New York Film Festival opened with Truffaut's L'Enfant Sauvage—and ended for one wild child when he pushed his luck with Truffaut a little too far

Toronto 2012 Diary: To the Wonder, Something in the Air, Ginger and Rosa

By Nicolas Rapold
September 12, 2012
Showing the love, and related challenges, in new work by Malick, Assayas, and Potter

Toronto 2012 Diary: Berberian Sound Studio, Museum Hours, Lebanese Rocket Society

By Nicolas Rapold
September 11, 2012
What's the frequency, Kenneth? The ups and downs of Seventies giallo foley artistry, art museums, and retro rocketry

Toronto 2012 Diary: Silver Linings Playbook, Stories We Tell, Gebo and the Shadow

By Nicolas Rapold
September 11, 2012
The latest from David O. Russell, Sarah Polley, and Manoel de Oliveira

Toronto 2012 Diary: The Act of Killing

By Nicolas Rapold
September 9, 2012
A bold, Rouchian documentary about Indonesian "gangsters" blends reenactment and fly-on-the-wall observation to reveal some grotesque truths

Review: Detropia

By Graham Corrigan
September 7, 2012
The painful ramifications of putting all your eggs in one (industry's) basket: Detroit's woes detailed

Seeing Double: The Quay Brothers at MoMA

By Violet Lucca
September 5, 2012
Opening up the Quay Brothers' cabinet of curiosities

Last Ten Films: So Yong Kim

By Film Comment
September 5, 2012
The director of For Ellen and Treeless Mountain reveals her filmic consumption

The Exploitation Index

By Violet Lucca
September 4, 2012
Stop me if you've heard this one before—see how Compliance rates on the exploitation index

Review: Samsara

By Daniel Eagan
August 31, 2012
Sometimes there's so much beauty in the world you need a 70 mm camera to catch it all: Ron Fricke's latest travelogue