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Aug 22, 2024 — This year, Bologna’s annual feast of restorations and rediscoveries showcased one of the most ambitious masterpieces of the silent era, the melodramas of Japanese filmmaker Kozaburo Yoshimura, and other treasures of film history.

Nov 8, 2023 — Both America’s largest and the world’s largest documentary film festivals open today.

Jul 27, 2022 — Beat the heat with our extensive survey of Chinese representation in American film as well as tributes to Yaphet Kotto, David Gulpilil, and Myrna Loy.

Feb 4, 2021 — Here’s an overview of what critics have been saying about this year’s winners.

Oct 8, 2020 — The poetic portrait of a mother struggling to reunite her family won a documentary directing award at Sundance.

Aug 13, 2019 — As Toronto’s full lineup nears completion, New York looks to expand upon “our notions of what the moving image can do and be.”

Apr 18, 2018 — This morning, the Cannes Film Festival posted an announcement listing eleven new films that had been added to this year’s lineup. Then the announcement was yanked. Radio silence for hours. Now the announcement’s back up again. So let’s have a...

Jan 8, 2018 — New York. “If the promise of canonical film school heartthrobs—among them Marcello Mastroianni, Ugo Tognazzi, and Michel Piccoli—gorging and fucking themselves to death in a provincial villa sets your heart a-racing, close that incognito tab and treat yourself to La...

May 17, 2017 — With her son, Felix Moeller (Forbidden Films), Margarethe von Trotta (The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum, Hannah Arendt) will direct the documentary Ingmar Bergman – Legacy of a Defining Genius, reports Variety’s John Hopewell: “Exploring Bergman’s work with his closest...

Sep 4, 2024 — The festival launched RaMell Ross’s Nickel Boys and brought in a slew of critical favorites fresh from their premieres in Venice.