Grief stages: the Canadian auteur discusses making art to process loss, the eroticism of conspiracy theories, and why his ...

Sarah Friedland‘s debut feature Familiar Touch—the Opening Night selection of this year’s New Directors/New Films Festival—is ...

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Not long ago, cinephiles who didn’t have the opportunity to travel to festivals just had to grin and bear it when hearing about the riches of the international film scene, and pray that a handful of ...

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An example: a brilliant Brazilian director and friend, João Jardim, made a beautiful documentary in 2001 called Window of the Soul that he brought to me for the mix. The first scene is a close-up of a ...

Truffaut is not literate merely because his films contain allusions to Renoir, Walsh, Vigo and Hitchcock, although they are the sources of the film conventions he manipulates, nor because Jules and ...

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