IFP Sets Independent Film Week Plans
Independent Film Week offers opportunities for filmmakers to meet with industry professionals and discuss the future of film.
Interview with Dominga Sotomayor, “Thursday Till Sunday”
The Chilean director discusses her intimate portrait of an unraveling family, the universality of adolescence, working in cramped quarters and her decision to shoot on film.
Alysa Nahmias & Benjamin Murray on “Unfinished Spaces”
The directors of this documentary screening at Latinbeat discuss their unique collaboration and the connection between architecture and Cuba's cultural identity.
Locarno 2012 Diary: Reappraising Preminger’s Early Work
In the twelfth of a series of articles from the Locarno Critics Academy, Marc Menichini argues for the virtues of the great filmmaker's early, studio-commissioned works.
Locarno 2012 Diary: Tension and Release
In the eleventh of a series of articles from the Locarno Critics Academy, Michael Noredine calls Leviathan "the kind of film that creates an environment so visually and aurally complete as to be nearly indescribable."
Locarno 2012 Diary: Fearing Other People
In the tenth of a series of articles from the Locarno Critics Academy, Ari Gunnar Thorsteinsson looks at four festival selections that confront the alternate terrors of isolation and connection.
Locarno 2012 Diary: Locarno’s Northern Lights
In the ninth in a series of articles from the Locarno Critics Academy, Adam Cook reflects on the sole Canadian offerings at this year's festival.
Locarno 2012 Diary: Boy vs. Girl
In the eighth a series of articles from the Locarno Critics Academy, Beatrice Behn dissects the fraught gender dynamics of Ruby Sparks.
Locarno 2012 Diary: The Specter of Pornography
In the seventh of a series of articles from the Locarno Critics Academy, Celluloid Liberation Front discusses three different depictions of opportunism, exploitation, and obscenity.
Zemeckis’ “Flight” Will Close 50th NYFF
With the 50th New York Film Festival only 50 days away, the Film Society of Lincoln Center has made the first major announcement about the festival’s highly anticipated lineup: the festival will close with Flight by Robert Zemeckis.
