Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey offers up a strangely bloodless and dour vision of Homer’s lively world of men and gods ...

Balls of Fire. This year’s edition of the Italian festival devoted to restored and rediscovered films brought the hea ...

Critics Robert Daniels and Guy Lodge join to discuss a pair of buzzed-about Bulgarian films and other highlights from the ...

Robert Daniels joins to discuss festival highlights Dao, The Hanging of Stuart Cornfeld, 3 Weeks After, and more ...

Critic Pavel Sladký and programmer Irena Kovarova kick off our coverage from the Czech festival’s 60th edition ...

From the Sept-Oct 1986 Midsection, “Five Restless Voices,” Marlaine Glicksman talks to the filmmaker about She’s Gotta Have It. Marlaine Glicksman Read this story as part of the archived issue. You so ...

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Heart of gold: a not-quite silent Czech film explores the fall (and fall) of a country girl gone bad I’ve seen it argued that an obsession with film preservation is unhealthy, that our energy is ...

The Ivorian actor discusses teaching his craft, working with Jim Jarmusch, and the differences between filming in Africa versus Europe This year’s New York African Film Festival screened Philippe ...

Celebrating its 40th anniversary, the Seattle International Film Festival has maintained a welcoming low profile despite its size (at 25 days it is the longest and largest film festival in the country ...

The first time I saw The Present, the rueful, digressive video essay Robert Frank produced when there were—in his words—“another 1,347 days until the year 2000,” it was during an eccentric program at ...

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