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Festivals: Il Cinema Ritrovato

Past is future: the Bologna showcase of revivals and restorations returns triumphantly with adventurous works by Mambéty, De Toth, Dieterle, and more
Read Dan Sullivan’s article

News to Me: Michael Snow, Rebecca Hall, Paul Verhoeven

Living large: avant-garde titan Michael Snow goes IMAX, Paul Verhoeven gets to a nunnery, Rebecca Hall debuts as director, and Locarno awards
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The Film Comment Podcast: Locarno 2018

Mountain views: the discerning festival remains a stimulating laboratory of film culture, including new films by photographer Richard Billingham and a 13.5-hour film that's a feast of genre storytelling
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Deep Focus: A Prayer Before Dawn

Jailhouse schlock: faces and bodies get smashed in Jean-Stéphane Sauvaire’s prison drama, but audience hearts are left untouched
Read Michael Sragow’s column

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News

News to Me: Michael Snow, Rebecca Hall, Paul Verhoeven

By Carlos Valladares
Living large: avant-garde titan Michael Snow goes IMAX, Paul Verhoeven gets to a nunnery, Rebecca Hall debuts as director, and Locarno awards

Reviews

Review: Madeline’s Madeline

By Devika Girish
(Josephine Decker, USA, Oscilloscope, Opening August 10)

Interviews

Interview: Agnès Godard

By Yonca Talu
Close enough to touch: Claire Denis’s frequent cinematographer Agnès Godard reveals how she creates images of such remarkable intimacy

Queer & Now & Then

Queer & Now & Then: 1999

By Michael Koresky
Hide and seek: Doug Liman’s Go negotiates complicated waters despite its seemingly ephemeral indie-also-ran existence

Podcast

The Film Comment Podcast: Locarno 2018

By Nicolas Rapold
Mountain views: the discerning festival remains a stimulating laboratory of film culture, including new films by photographer Richard Billingham and a 13.5-hour film that's a feast of genre storytelling

Features

Where Are We with Bergman?

By Olivier Assayas
A filmmaker reflects on the Swedish master’s legacy in a changed world (and a world he changed)

Imogen Sara Smith

Beautiful Work: The Female Gaze in Beau Travail, La France, and The Romance of Astrea and Celadon

By Imogen Sara Smith
The way I see it: a series on female cinematographers at the Film Society of Lincoln Center invites a closer look at how we look

TCM Diary

TCM Diary: Dorothy Malone Knows

By Sheila O'Malley
Voice of experience: the Hollywood actress brought a sense of hard-won wisdom and forthrightness to The Big Sleep, Tarnished Angels, and more

Festivals

Festivals: Il Cinema Ritrovato

By Dan Sullivan
Past is future: the Bologna showcase of revivals and restorations returns triumphantly with adventurous works by Mambéty, De Toth, Dieterle, and more