This year brought 18 features and seven shorts, all presented with live musical accompaniment.
Can film as a medium communicate the unthinkable and unknowable consequences of mass tragedy?
Bresson’s best works attain an air of perfect reverie through a conception of framing and montage that seems equally contrary to the classic idea of what an image, or sequence of images, should represent.
Without a doubt, this 2011 edition was the film festival experience of the year for me.
Béla Tarr might be a man of few words, but those words pack quite a punch.
Edward Yang’s filmography is a body of work of and about progress, a body of themes and ideas that all come together in his swan song.
To get an idea of A Separation’s thematic scope, imagine a slow moving avalanche that starts with a single bad decision.
No one is ever alone in these films.
A number of films at this year’s festival hover in the realm of science fiction.
The Tsunami and the Cherry Blossom mourns Japan’s devastation and celebrates the possibilities of its rebound.
This Is Not a Film is a masterpiece aching with expected pain and unexpected laughter.
It would certainly be easy enough to capture this stutter-step courtship by filming its gorgeous leads against gorgeous Swedish backdrops and calling it a day.
For the first time, I can’t excuse the bull Clint Eastwood is selling.
Rarely has Werner Herzog seemed less capable of infusing a nonfiction inquiry with poetic depth than with Into the Abyss.
Dan Lindsay and T.J. Martin’s Undefeated doesn’t really contain much in the way of genuine surprises.
At 65, Charlotte Rampling is still one of cinema’s great iconoclasts.
The past is being borne ceaselessly into the future in Luchino Visconti’s The Leopard.
How many readers have heard of Atlântida Cinematográfica?
Don’t Go Breaking My Heart isn’t simply a house of mirrors reflecting the soullessness of our internet age.
Bruno Dumont’s Outside Satan isn’t alive to nature’s movement.
Che, a New Man presents Che’s revolutions as an effort to love the rest of the world.