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Jul 7, 2018 — The writer and director lived a full and robust life both before and after his monumental Shoah.
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Jul 4, 2018 — New issues of Cinema Scope, Film Comment, and Senses of Cinema take stock of the year in cinema—so far.
Jun 11, 2018 — Building on a rich lineage of gothic fairy tales and noirish melodramas, this lavishly stylized curio has an ominous beauty all its own.
May 24, 2018 — Let the celebrations begin with a series in New York, a season in London, and a new restoration.
May 19, 2018 — The full list of awards and a look back at what many consider to be the strongest edition in years.
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May 18, 2018 — And Sergei Loznitsa wins the best director award for Donbass.
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May 13, 2018 — Critics may differ on Jia’s sprawling gangster movie, but all agree that Zhao Tao is outstanding.
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May 9, 2018 — “One of the best Welles documentaries” makes the case for the director as a brilliant graphic artist.
Production Notes
May 9, 2018 — 1. Born Arutin Sayadyan, eighteenth-century Armenian poet Sayat-Nova—whose pen name means “King of Songs”—served as the initial inspiration for The Color of Pomegranates. Sayat-Nova was an ashugh, a troubadour whose verses were set to music that he played on a...
Essays
May 8, 2018 — In his uncharacteristic final masterpiece, the great Hollywood melodramatist Frank Borzage approaches the shadowy violence of film noir with his unique brand of romanticism.