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Gavin Smith

Sundance Kids

By Gavin Smith
January 21, 2020
A report from the 1995 festival, where pushing the envelope was the name of the game

Lost in America: Richard Linklater

By Gavin Smith
August 13, 2019
Revisit two sides of the American nightmare in this 2006 interview with the director of the new Where’d You Go, Bernadette

Interview: Quentin Tarantino

By Gavin Smith
June 18, 2019
The director the highly anticipated Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood dives deep into his first two films in this 1994 interview

Up Above and Down Below

By Gavin Smith
November 4, 2015
Hauntings, transformations, and a taste of the sublime at Toronto’s megafestival

Sins of Omission

By Gavin Smith
June 30, 2015
With obvious exceptions, the films weren’t great and la programmation was worse

Impasses

By Gavin Smith
March 2, 2015
Rotterdam gave us a taste of life at the end of the line

Jim Jarmusch Interviewed

By Gavin Smith
March 1, 2015
The director of The Limits of Control talks about going out on a limb with Gavin Smith in this online exclusive

A Walk on the Wild Side

By Gavin Smith
October 28, 2014
As usual, Toronto’s horn of plenty runneth over, but the real finds were on the fringes

Film Comment News Digest: 7/14/14

By Gavin Smith
July 14, 2014
Olivier Assayas tells us about his next film, the Coen Bros. drop their cover story, and more news about Bujalski, Spielberg, Linklater, and Pasolini.

Aiming True

By Gavin Smith
June 30, 2014
Importance rules, but the real thing shines through

Editor’s Letter: July/August 2014

By Gavin Smith
June 16, 2014

La Drôlesse

For as long as I’ve been attending Cannes, the festival has always included a few retrospective films and restorations. But in 2005, buoyed by an upsurge in film preservation, the festival launched an…

Film Comment News Digest: 5/26/14

By Gavin Smith
May 26, 2014
Your post-Cannes news roundup

Film Comment News Digest: 5/12/14

By Gavin Smith
May 15, 2014
Terrence Malick explains it all, the return of Gaspar Noé, plus Irvine Welsh and Jonas Akerlund's beach blanket bingo

Film Comment News Digest: 5/5/14

By Gavin Smith
May 5, 2014
All the news that’s fit to be lifted from other sites and semi-rewritten!

Film Comment News Digest: 4/22/14

By Gavin Smith
April 22, 2014
The Yes Men get back to work! Peter Greenaway deathwatch! Bryan Cranston and Helen Mirren reunion! And more...

Film Comment News Digest: 4/11/14

By Gavin Smith
April 11, 2014
The latest projects from the directors of The Strange Color of Your Body's Tears, Keyhole, Control, and Prisoners

Film Comment News Digest 4/1/14

By Gavin Smith
April 1, 2014
The newest projects from Hansen-Løve, Garrel, a former Python, the Coens, and more...

News Digest 3/24/14

By Gavin Smith
March 24, 2014
What are Jerzy Skolimowski, Mohsen Makhmalbaf, and Judd Apatow up to? Read on...

News Digest 3/12/14

By Gavin Smith
March 12, 2014
One-stop shopping for discerning film news seekers! No mess, no fuss.

Blow by Blow

By Gavin Smith
March 4, 2014
Most of the highlights and some of the low points from eight days at the IFFR