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

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

By Robert Koehler
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: Amy Taubin, Gavin Smith, Kent Jones, Marco Grosoli

Cannes Roundtable One: Amy Taubin, Gavin Smith, Kent Jones, Marco Grosoli

By Film Comment
5.21.2013

Le Joli Mai: FILM COMMENT editors and contributors gather to suss out the good, the bad, and the ugly of Cannes 2013

Cannes: Amy Taubin on Behind the Candelabra

Cannes: Amy Taubin on Behind the Candelabra

By Amy Taubin
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
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
5.14.2013

Kim Ki-duk's Catholic phase

Festivals: Tribeca

Festivals: Tribeca

By Amy Taubin
5.13.2013

The 12th edition of the festival offered more than just Bub and Bobby brushing shoulders

Rep Diary: Maine-Océan

Rep Diary: Maine-Océan

By Giovanni Marchini Camia
5.10.2013

Overlooked Nouvelle Vague director Jacques Rozier builds a Tower of Babel by the sea in this forgotten 1985 film

Critical Dialogue: Something in the Air

Critical Dialogue: Something in the Air

By Max Nelson
5.8.2013

The political is personal—even if you're sort of in it for the girls

Review: The Great Gatsby

Review: The Great Gatsby

By Violet Lucca
5.7.2013

Missing the punch—and point—of F. Scott Fitzgerald's classic

Interview: Jason Osder

Interview: Jason Osder

By Nicolas Rapold
5.6.2013

The past in present tense: uncovering the devastating clash between a militant group and Philadelphia police

Review: Love Is All You Need

Review: Love Is All You Need

By Meredith Slifkin
5.3.2013

The lighter side of Susanne Bier

Review: What Maisie Knew

Review: What Maisie Knew

By Emma Myers
5.3.2013

An update of Henry James's What Maisie Knew walks the line between drama and black humor

 
Women in War: Revisiting Zero Dark Thirty

Women in War: Revisiting Zero Dark Thirty

By Richard Combs on 4.22.2013

How the battle lines of modern warfare are drawn in Kathryn Bigelow’s Zero Dark Thirty
Interview: Jacob Hatley on Levon Helm

Interview: Jacob Hatley on Levon Helm

By Margaret Barton-Fumo on 4.19.2013

Hatley's doc Ain’t in It for My Health lets us hang out with one talented, immensely likeable musician
The Illusionists: The Auteur as Magician

The Illusionists: The Auteur as Magician

By Fernando F. Croce on 4.19.2013

Classic misdirection: conjuring the secret history of cinema and magic
Review: In the House

Review: In the House

By Jared Eisenstat on 4.17.2013

Watching the watchmen: François Ozon takes aim at the bourgeoisie and the artists who mock them
Critical Dialogue: IMDb Nation

Critical Dialogue: IMDb Nation

By Max Nelson on 4.16.2013

Voices from the Internet: exploring the flora and fauna of IMDb
Interview: Terence Nance

Interview: Terence Nance

By Emma Myers on 4.15.2013

The director of An Oversimplification of Her Beauty talks about the organized chaos of love and filmmaking
Streaming Pile: Rare Anthologies

Streaming Pile: Rare Anthologies

By Laura Kern on 4.12.2013

Regardless of the decade, we've got your weird anthologies covered
Review: 42

Review: 42

By Graham Corrigan on 4.12.2013

Brian Helgeland indulges in America's two favorite pastimes: baseball and biopics
Review: The Angels’ Share

Review: The Angels’ Share

By Max Nelson on 4.11.2013

Ken Loach's kilted caper balances humor and social realism
Interview: Matías Piñeiro

Interview: Matías Piñeiro

By Jonathan Robbins on 4.9.2013

The director of Viola talks about working with friends, the women who pay him with sandwiches, and subtitles

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