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

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In December of 2010, a film I’d written and was to direct (The Jesuit, subsequently made by other hands) fell apart and I felt about to do the same. I knew that Andrew Sarris had given up his class at ...

This year on the Croisette, it’s easy to lose count of the number of logos that precede a film’s opening credits, representing money patchworked together from across multiple countries, each ...

A top-level film from an auteur at the height of his powers. More than anything I value film style, film form, and film authorship and Moonrise Kingdom is soaked in all three of these things. —Drake ...

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What would it mean for a film to meet the moment, especially a moment as calamitous as ours? To be honest, the very thought rings alarm bells: many recent movies that are said to have accomplished ...