Heroes and villains: the festival largely made good on its promise to show socially relevant works from independent and early ...

If Blake Edwards’s expertly made but jejune 1962 thriller is any indication, times were simpler in early-Sixties San Francisco. When criminal Ross Martin involves prim teller Lee Remick in his plan to ...

1. Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia Sam Peckinpah, 1974. 2. Claire’s Knee Eric Rohmer, 1970. 3. Faces John Cassavetes, 1968. 4. Eyes Without a Face Georges Franju, 1960. 5. Eyes Wide Shut Stanley ...

Here today: a new festival defiantly reclaims a lost history, bringing contemporary and classic Cambodian cinema to a local ...

Tom Hanks’s confident demeanor is as daunting as Mt. Rushmore and just as effective in discouraging speculation about who those men really are. In his office at Walt Disney Studios in Burbank, ...

All change at Locarno? Well, yes and no. While festival president Marco Solari announced plans to expand the festival, the appointment of Locarno insider Carlo Chatrian as artistic director, following ...

World War II films tend to reflect the immensity of the conflict in the scale of the production. On a fraction of the usual budget, Canopy adopts a more modest, arty approach to the war, following a ...

1. L’Argent Robert Bresson, 19832. Gertrud Carl Theodor Dreyer, 19643. F for Fake Orson Welles, 1975 ...

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Sometimes the sound captured in a vérité shoot is better than anything that can be built in the studio. In Cartel Land, virtually all of the gunfire that we hear in the shootout scenes is simply ...

Votes cast by Geoff Andrew, Michael Chaiken, Chris Chang, Scott Foundas, J. Hoberman, Alexander Horwath, Kent Jones, Laura Kern, Nathan Lee, Olaf Möller, Jonathan ...