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Festivals

The Film Comment Podcast: Venice One

By Nicolas Rapold
August 30, 2019
To the moon and back: Jonathan Romney joins to discuss Ad Astra, An Officer and a Spy, Marriage Story, and other hotly awaited (and debated) Venice premieres

Film of the Week: An Officer and a Spy

By Jonathan Romney
August 30, 2019
Courtroom drama: Roman Polanski's latest film, a Venice world premiere, surehandedly recounts the Dreyfus Affair and its story of a French army captain's anti-Semitic persecution

Venice 2019 Cheat Sheet

By Film Comment
August 27, 2019
Looking ahead: an overview of all the features at the 2019 Venice International Film Festival

Notes from the Venice Film Festival

By Edith Laurie
August 27, 2019
With the 2019 edition opening this week, take a look back on the 1962 festival

Dispatch: Karlovy Vary 2019

By Nick Pinkerton
August 6, 2019
Free at last: old specters returned to haunt this year's edition of the Czech festival

Dispatch: FIDMarseille 2019

By Christopher Small
August 1, 2019
Truth in fiction: all the notable films at this year’s festival played fast and loose with the outer limits of their fictions

Festivals: Il Cinema Ritrovato

By Giovanni Vimercati
July 12, 2019
Whose canon?: the festival once again brought to light forgotten, underrated, vanished, or poetically exiled films

Crossing Over

By Dennis Lim
July 1, 2019
A prize-winning triumph at Cannes, Mati Diop’s Dakar-set debut feature Atlantics confirms an oeuvre of elemental immediacy and dreamlike exile

The Highest Stakes

By Amy Taubin
July 1, 2019
Matters of love and war fueled a beguiling and trenchant selection this year at Cannes

Interview: Bertrand Bonello

By Jordan Cronk
June 11, 2019
Dead or alive: the director of Zombi Child on voodoo, the oneiric, and his use of music