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Berlin Diary #3

By Giovanni Marchini Camia
February 11, 2013
Russian collective farm skepticism, German Romanticism on the Canadian plains, and Shia LeBeouf getting his face smashed up in Bucharest

Berlin Diary #2

By Giovanni Marchini Camia
February 11, 2013
Ulrich Seidl returns with the final installment of his Paradise trilogy while Małgośka Szumowska tackles spiritual devotion and fleshy desire

Review: A Glimpse Inside the Mind of Charles Swan III

By Aaron Light
February 8, 2013
"I am on a drug—it's called Charlie Sheen. It's not available because if you try it, you will die."

Berlinale Diary #1

By Giovanni Marchini Camia
February 7, 2013
Berlin's opening night film The Grandmaster lands some—but not all—of its punches

Review: John Dies at the End

By Violet Lucca
February 6, 2013
This review contains no spoilers

Rep Diary: The American Serial: 1914-1944

By R. Emmet Sweeney
February 4, 2013
Light Industry keeps our correspondent glued to his seat with one tale after another

Sundance Diary #5

By John Wildman
February 1, 2013
“Why isn’t Farah here pimping you out?”

Critical Dialogue: The Story of Film

By Max Nelson
February 1, 2013
What’s the story? The hope and the hubris in retelling the history of cinema

Interview: Jim McBride

By Justin Stewart
January 31, 2013
The director of David Holzman's Diary and independent cinema pioneer reveals all

Community Theaters: Art House Convergence 2013

By Jeff Berg
January 30, 2013
A dispatch from the annual gathering about that ever rarer—and ever more vital—breed of moviehouse