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– Are you going to sleep with the Chinese? – Yes, I think so. – When? – Maybe later on today. Barbara Two events made the trip worthy to the American Film Market (AFM). First was the screening of Mathieu A...

ENTRIES IN PART 1: AFI Research Collection Antti Alanen Francisco Algarín Navarro Juan Carlos Ampie Michael J. Anderson Rowena Santos Aquino Sean Axmaker Martyn Bamber Mike Bartlett Nick Bartlett R...

ENTRIES IN PART 2: Thomas Caldwell Michael Campi Nicolas Carrasco Michael J. Casey Celluloid Liberation Front Daryl Chin Graiwoot Chulphongsathorn Roberta Ciabarra Joel Condemi Adam Cook Jordan Cro...

ENTRIES IN PART 3: William Edwards Jeremy Elphick John K. Emelianoff Kaya Erdinc Eliú Escamilla Adalberto Fonkén Gwendolyn Audrey Foster Mark Freeman Hugo Gamarra E. Sachin Gandhi Stephen Gaunson ...

ENTRIES IN PART 4: Daniel Kasman Christopher Kearney Ricardo Köhler Ehsan Khoshbakht Rainer Knepperges Adam Kuntavanish Eugenia Lai Elaine Lennon Raúl Liébana Liébana Kimberly Lindbergs Tara Loma...

ENTRIES IN PART 5: Peter Nagels Thomas John Nudi Nicholas Page Andreea Pătru Yoana Pavlova Jesse Percival Antoni Peris-Grao Ashley Perry Andréa Picard Fidel Jesús Quirós Paulette Reynolds Stua...

ENTRIES IN PART 6: Maria San Filippo José Sarmiento Hinojosa Howard Schuman Christopher Sikich Matthew Singleton Christopher Small Mark Spratt Brad Stevens Josh Timmermann Gorazd Trušnovec Matt Tur...

To watch the films of Robert Mitchum – the Golden Age Hollywood star whose 54-year career was the subject of a major retrospective at the New York Film Festival this October – is to grow acquainted with a style...

  From 2011 until 2015, I taught a course entitled “Documentary Production” at a small liberal arts college north of Chicago. Rather than basing the class entirely on production techniques, I included aspects ...

My conversations during the first two days of the 2017 Toronto International Film Festival were dominated by two subjects: Twin Peaks: The Return, which had aired its final episodes earlier in the week (and ult...

Paying homage to the birth year of punk rock as well as the persistence of a rebellious sensibility in the contemporary, the Adelaide Film Festival styled itself as ‘punk’ this year. “Vive Le Punk!” was the fes...

“We didn’t need dialogue. We had faces.” This statement, from Billy Wilder’s Hollywood noir, Sunset Boulevard (1950), returned to me time and time again during the 2017 Melbourne International Film Festival. A ...

Cannes, as we all know, is essentially a scandal-making machine. More than any other film festival, Cannes has had controversy baked into its DNA from the very beginning of its now 70-year history, and it somet...

Over a five-decade career, Paul Verhoeven has received the Razzie for Worst Film of the Decade (Showgirls, 1995) as well as the Golden Calf for Best Dutch Film of the Century for Turks fruit (Turkish Delight, 1...

Though only in its 14th year, Danish documentary festival CPH:DOX’s profile has continually grown, so much so that the festival now proudly calls itself “the third largest documentary film festival in the world...

Dekalb Elementary (d. Reed Van Dyk), a huis-clos which deftly manoeuvres the politics of race and class in America, was the winner of this year’s Grand Prix at the Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Fest...

In the fall 2016, US film festivals on the West Coast had the foresight, the clout and the good luck to uncover some significant gold nuggets: Telluride world premiered Barry Jenkins’s Moonlight, and AFI FEST P...

What would cinematic thought be like refracted through the master filmmakers of Asia? In her book The Epic Cinema of Kumar Shahani, Laleen Jayamanne responds to this question by formulating a unique theory of t...

The merits of Saige Walton’s Cinema’s Baroque Flesh: Film, Phenomenology and the Art of Entanglement lie in the parallels between baroque thinking and phenomenology. Here the baroque is a transhistorical patter...

ENTRIES IN PART 5: Josh B. Mabe Bob Manning Giovanni Marchini Camia Miguel Marias Josephine Massarella Neil McGlone Tim McQueen Adrian Mendizabal Douglas Messerli Hind Mezaina Richie Mill...

The 2016 Wavelengths shorts program opened auspiciously with Ana Mendieta’s Silueta Sangrienta (Bloody Silhouette). Made in 1975 in Iowa City, the two-minute, Super-8 film begins with a high-angle shot of Mendi...

2016 marked the 17th year for the Jeonju International Film Festival, held annually in early May in a small southern city in South Korea’s Jeolla Province. The festival has long been South Korea’s second major ...

Catherine Breillat’s Une Veille Maitresse (2007) opens with the title card, “au siècle de Cholderlos de Laclos” (in the period of Cholderlos de Laclos) placing the next 104 minutes or so firmly in the decadent ...

The corpus of Jacques Rivette’s critical writings for Cahiers du cinéma is as influential as it is modest in size. Roughly 50 articles appeared under Rivette’s name alone, although this total is bolstered by hi...

Hong Sang-soo, 25 October 1960, Seoul, South Korea There are few filmmakers as distinctive as the South Korean master Hong Sang-soo, a writer-director whose films are immediately recognisable to even those wit...

In the first half of the twentieth century, film theorists developed competing concepts of soul in the cinema. According to Sarah Cooper, the concept of soul was employed to assess the psychological aspects of ...

La Roche-Sur-Yon feels like an unlikely place for any festival at all, let alone the pleasingly eclectic one it’s been granted. This small town was given its grid-like layout by Napoleon at the beginning of the...

I. It’s the first one in the film – what is often dismissively labelled an establishing shot, as though all that it does is to set the stage for something else like an empty contextual vessel. But shots like t...

Entries in part 5: Fidel Jésus Quirós Robert Reimer Bérénice Reynaud Stuart Richards Jeremy Rigsby Peter Rist Eloise Ross Julian Ross Miriam Ross Dan Sallitt Maria San Filippo José Sarmiento ...

Feature Image: I am Here “WTF is this movie?!” I scribbled this note midway through I Am Here, Fan Lixin’s trainwreck of a documentary about Super Boy, an American Idol-style talent show that is a ratings s...

Paris, Texas (1984) is a story about the prodigal son and his uneasy homecoming. It is also, among other things, a road movie, a modern Western, a near textbook perfect example of what an “art film” can be rath...

In the fierce arena fight of film festivals, Locarno might have gone one battle too far this year when it invited Roman Polanski for a lifetime achievement award, with its requisite appearance at the festival’s...

In 2007, Romania capped a startling four-year streak of major victories on international cinema’s grandest and most controversial stage, the Cannes Film Festival, where Cristian Mungiu’s 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2...

The times when the North was the place of dragons are long gone. Viking ships don’t sail off the Scandinavian frozen shores anymore. Nowadays Sweden could contend for the title of the friendliest country on Ear...

THE ENTRIES PART 1 Francisco Algarín Navarro Victor Alicea Michael Anderson Geoff Andrew Julian Antos Armas Miguel Charlotte Aumont Sean Axmaker Martyn Bamber Mike Bartlett Raphaël...

Lucas Hammer Lee Hill Wai Ho Alexander Horwath Peter Hourigan Cerise Howard Brian Hu Christoph Huber David Hudson Darren Hughes Tara Judah Dominik Kamalzadeh Daniel Kasman Christopher Kearney...