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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

 
Review: Upstream Color

Review: Upstream Color

By Violet Lucca on 4.8.2013

What does it all mean? A primer
Time Well Spent: Les Blank

Time Well Spent: Les Blank

By Justin Stewart on 4.8.2013

In honor of his passing, we repost this overview of Les Blank's collaborations and career, plus a short conversation with the filmmaker
Review: Trance

Review: Trance

By Emma Myers on 4.5.2013

Danny Boyle's latest remixes mental states and dreamscapes with techno beats
Review: To the Wonder

Review: To the Wonder

By Max Nelson on 4.4.2013

What does Terrence Malick want from us? (And how is he asking us?)
Review: André Gregory: Before and After Dinner

Review: André Gregory: Before and After Dinner

By Henry Giardina on 4.3.2013

Cindy Kleine's new documentary is much more than a second helping of My Dinner With André
Interview: Lyubov Arkus

Interview: Lyubov Arkus

By Max Nelson on 4.1.2013

Critic turned caregiver turned filmmaker: the director of New Directors / New Films pick Anton's Right Here discusses finding new avenues to empathy with her autistic subject
Festivals: Cartagena

Festivals: Cartagena

By Violet Lucca on 4.1.2013

Sea, sun, and cinema at the 53rd Festival Internacional de Cine de Cartagena de Indias (FICCI)
Review: The Host

Review: The Host

By Max Nelson on 3.29.2013

The adaptation of Stephenie Meyer’s alien-invasion novel panders to anxious t(w)eens, but is that so wrong?
Rep Diary: Le Sang and Early Works

Rep Diary: Le Sang and Early Works

By Aaron Light on 3.28.2013

Film as a subversive art: an Amos Vogel-inspired double feature
Interview: Emil Christov

Interview: Emil Christov

By Jonathan Robbins on 3.26.2013

An informant for the secret police goes rogue in the Bulgarian director’s Cold War fantasia The Color of the Chameleon

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