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Celebrating its 80th this year, Karlovy Vary has long been one of Europe's foremost film festivals, an essential waypoint on any cinephile's continental wanderings. Balancing bold stewarshsip of world premieres and careful curation of the best the international circuit has to offer, KVIFF always offers attendees both the thrill of discovery and a ticket to
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Annecy 2026
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Tribeca 2026
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In an introduction for Bill Morrison’s new film darker, Nitrate Picture Show festival director Peter Bagrov joked that when archivists and preservationists come across reels…
A roundup of all our thoughts from the Cannes 2026 festival.
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The Part-Time shorts program, in collaboration with Now Instant Image Hall, was presented at the Los Angeles Festival of Movies in two blocks. The first…
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In my day job as a college writing instructor, there is a lot of talk about “multi-modal composition.” This simply means that instead of remaining…
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There’s certainly a long, intertwining history of cinema and science. Topics in biology, environmentalism, astronomical observation, and human-technology relations have remained at the forefront of…
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Two Pianos In an old interview with David Ehrlich, filmmaker and critic Kent Jones recalls a conversation with Arnaud Desplechin in which the great French director told him “a script is a very small thing. The movie is the thing.” It's a wonderfully succinct summation of Desplechin's interests as an artist; there's always a story,
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