Mar 21, 2019 “The world is full of skeptics,” Detour’s Al Roberts struggles to explain, in voice-over, while on-screen we’re pondering Vera’s dead body. “I know. I’m one myself . . .”Even now, closing in on seventy-five years after the Producers Releasing Corporation...

SXSW 2019 Awards

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Mar 13, 2019 Women’s stories are central to five of the six top prize winners.

Mar 1, 2019 Claire Simon begins her new documentary The Competition with a shot of young filmmakers chatting outside the locked gates of La Fémis, the most prestigious film school in France, patiently awaiting an opportunity to be judged by a panel of...

Feb 28, 2019 The spring 2019 issues are out—and Jonathan Rosenbaum is rolling out a new two-volume collection.

Feb 25, 2019 Songbook Pace Lou Reed, nobody’s life is saved by rock and roll in Cold Water. This in spite of  its young characters’ relentless pursuit of it, in both musical and metaphysical forms. Made in 1994, set in 1972, Olivier Assayas’s...

Feb 18, 2019 The Swiss actor will be remembered for a range of characters spanning from heaven to hell.

Feb 12, 2019 The competition is struggling as China yanks one film and theater owners threaten another.

Feb 12, 2019 In a stark, forbidding prison, a nun ascends a staircase, framed by vertical bars, and walks down a corridor, unlocking cell doors. Women start coming out; two of them quarrel. Smoking on her bunk, one inmate sighs when told she...

Odd Couples

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Feb 8, 2019 Norman Jewison and Ray Charles, Jules Feiffer and Alain Renais, and Jia Zhangke and Apple.

Feb 6, 2019 On the Criterion edition of Secret Sunshine, Lee Chang-dong describes his creative process as one of utter despair. That should come as no surprise to anyone who knows his work. Since making his feature debut, Green Fish, in 1997 at...

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