The Russian Five

Mar 9, 2022 — MoMI celebrates ten years of its First Look festival with five selections from previous editions.

Jul 26, 2021 — The main competition boasts new work from Jane Campion, Pedro Almodóvar, Ana Lily Amirpour, and Pablo Larraín.

Feb 16, 2021 — Reviews are strong for the biography of the unique theater and film director, comedian and actor.

Sep 14, 2020 — Golden Lion for Chloé Zhao! Plus a look at what the critics have to say about all the award winners.

May 10, 2019 — This week has seen surveys of the careers of Abbas Kiarostami and screenwriter Jean-Claude Carrière and deep dives into milestone works by George Cukor and Andrei Tarkovsky.

Jun 24, 2018 — During a period when studios gave him carte blanche, Josef von Sternberg created a sublime cinematic language that shrugged off one orthodoxy after another.

Jun 7, 2018 — The Ukraine-based filmmaker saw her work lauded and banned.

Mar 30, 2018 — Kim Jee-woon (The Good, the Bad, the Weird) has completed production on Inrang (working title), a remake of Hiroyuki Okiura’s 1999 animated thriller Jinroh: The Wolf Brigade (image above), reports Korean Film News (via Rubén Collazos at Cine maldito). “Set...

Aug 7, 2017 — Todd Haynes is working on a documentary about the Velvet Underground, reports Variety’s John Hopewell. Speaking in Locarno, where he’s receiving the Pardo d’onore Manor for career achievement, Haynes says that he’ll “rely certainly on Warhol films but also a...

Jul 21, 2016 — Interweaving wartime footage with haunting images of abandoned concentration camps, Alain Resnais’s breakthrough was one of the first films to confront the ravages of the Holocaust.