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Interview: Ethan Hawke

By Emma Myers
June 15, 2012
The actor/director/writer on his latest movie, Pawel Pawlikowski’s The Woman in the Fifth, and on how to choose roles

Shooting First: Talking Spaghetti Westerns at the Italian Cultural Institute

By Jonathan Robbins
June 14, 2012
Tony Musante: “Sergio told me he was looking for an inexpensive Eli Wallach.”

Review: Your Sister’s Sister

By Dan Sullivan
June 14, 2012
Lynn Shelton makes a play for the mainstream with this girls vs. boy rom-com

Cannes 2012 Diary: On Reygadas & Carax

By Scott Foundas
June 13, 2012
The shock of the new: a look at two uneasily received Cannes films that will stand the test of time

Review: Extraterrestrial

By John Wildman
June 12, 2012
The extraterrestrial meets the extramarital in this romance-tinged sci-fi flick

Review: Lola Versus

By Sarah Mankoff
June 8, 2012
The incredible, disappearing, almost-30-year-old woman, starring Greta Gerwig

Review: Corpo Celeste

By Meredith Slifkin
June 7, 2012
Today's Italy from the perspective of the ultimate outsider—a 12-year-old-girl

Interview: Jackie Goss on The Observers

By Violet Lucca
June 6, 2012
Jackie Goss's experimental mountaintop chronicle puts humans in their place

Director in Residence: The Films of Tony Buba at Anthology Film Archives

By Justin Stewart
June 6, 2012
A former Pennsylvania steel town gets a good-humored chronicler and political defender

Review: Safety Not Guaranteed

By Emma Myers
June 5, 2012
Aubrey Plaza and Mark Duplass star in an oddly touching hybrid of screwball and sci-fi