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Critical Dialogue: The Bling Ring

Critical Dialogue: The Bling Ring

By Max Nelson
6.18.2013

Is Sofia Coppola's latest a reflective meditation or a wealthy teenage wasteland?

Review: A Hijacking

Review: A Hijacking

By Jonathan Robbins
6.17.2013

Drama on the high seas! But is it ship-shape?

Interview: Marco Bellocchio

Interview: Marco Bellocchio

By Max Nelson
6.12.2013

The acclaimed director of Dormant Beauty, Fists in the Pocket, and Vincere discusses faith and the question of judgment in his work

Review: This Is The End

Review: This Is The End

By Max Kyburz
6.11.2013

It's a mad, mad, mad, mad end of the world

Review: In the Fog

Review: In the Fog

By Aaron Light
6.10.2013

The Nazi occupation tale reveals the lighter side of Belorussian director Sergei Loznitsa—relatively speaking

Review: Wish You Were Here

Review: Wish You Were Here

By Max Nelson
6.5.2013

Kieran Darcy-Smith's carefully calibrated debut about a friend gone missing is very accomplished, which might not be a good thing

Interview: Peter Strickland

Interview: Peter Strickland

By Violet Lucca
6.4.2013

Inside the world of Berberian Sound Studio with its film- and music-besotted director

Rep Diary: Robert Aldrich and Burt Lancaster

Rep Diary: Robert Aldrich and Burt Lancaster

By Nick Pinkerton
5.31.2013

Behind the über-masculine collaboration that spawned a ferocious history of the West in Apache, Vera Cruz, and Ulzana’s Raid

Cannes by Koehler: The Owners & Ate ver a luz

Cannes by Koehler: The Owners & Ate ver a luz

By Robert Koehler
5.31.2013

The politics of looking through the eyes of another, in this final dispatch

Review: Shadow Dancer

Review: Shadow Dancer

By Jared Eisenstat
5.30.2013

James Marsh’s restrained IRA thriller puts people above politics—even if its characters don’t

Festivals: Oberhausen

Festivals: Oberhausen

By Agnieszka Gratza
5.29.2013

Highlights from the 59th edition of the venerable short film festival

Review: Hannah Arendt

Review: Hannah Arendt

By Henry Giardina
5.28.2013

Margarethe von Trotta’s biographical film restages the question of moral—and critical—initiative

 
Cannes by Koehler: You and the Night

Cannes by Koehler: You and the Night

By Robert Koehler on 5.27.2013

Yann Gonzalez’s feature debut announces a supremely gifted young artist is in the house
Cannes Roundtable Two

Cannes Roundtable Two

By Film Comment on 5.25.2013

Gavin Smith, Alexander Horwath, Todd McCarthy, Jonathan Romney, Marco Grosoli, and Joumane Chahine discuss the bias towards lesbian sex scenes, potential d'Or winners, and the 75 percent effort syndrome
Critical Dialogue: Frances Ha

Critical Dialogue: Frances Ha

By Max Nelson on 5.24.2013

Modern love, same as New Wave love? Greta Gerwig and Noah Baumbach collaborate with their cinematic precursors
Cannes by Koehler: Stranger by the Lake

Cannes by Koehler: Stranger by the Lake

By Robert Koehler on 5.24.2013

Sex on the beach yields cinematic excellence in the hands of under-recognized auteur Alain Guiraudie
Festivals: Stanley Film Festival

Festivals: Stanley Film Festival

By Laura Kern on 5.23.2013

Horror on high at the inaugural edition of the Stanley Film Festival, in the 110-year-old hotel that helped inspire The Shining
Cannes by Koehler: Ilo Ilo, Bends, and The Lunchbox

Cannes by Koehler: Ilo Ilo, Bends, and The Lunchbox

By Robert Koehler on 5.22.2013

Good old-fashioned sharp storytelling drive three films dramatizing the human cost of East Asia’s continued economic upheaval
Cannes Roundtable One

Cannes Roundtable One

By Film Comment on 5.21.2013

Amy Taubin, Gavin Smith, Kent Jones, and Marco Grosoli gather at the halfway point of Cannes 2013 to suss out the good, the bad, and the ugly
Cannes: Amy Taubin on Behind the Candelabra

Cannes: Amy Taubin on Behind the Candelabra

By Amy Taubin on 5.21.2013

Steven Soderbergh’s irresistibly entertaining Liberace biopic comes out on top at Cannes
Cannes by Koehler: Salvo

Cannes by Koehler: Salvo

By Robert Koehler on 5.16.2013

Live from the Croisette, it's Robert Koehler. First up: Sicilian gangster gumption, courtesy of Fabio Grassadonia and Antonio Piazza
Review: Pieta

Review: Pieta

By Max Kyburz on 5.14.2013

Kim Ki-duk's Catholic phase

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