Among the true faithful, Serpent's Path is no new object from Kiyoshi Kurosawa. But despite standing among his greatest films, it's stayed in a much greater ob...
Isabelle Huppert's performance in Ulrike Ottinger’s The Blood Countess, a vampire fantasia set in Vienna (and co-starring no less of a local icon than Conchita...
Nearly 30 years into his feature filmmaking career, French writer-director François Ozon has done it all: screwball comedies, murder mystery musicals, erotic d...
It's a scenario that, under certain fascistic goverments, may not seem so far away: in order to increase economic output, the elders of society are mandated to...
For fifteen years now, Israeli writer-director Nadav Lapid has thoughtfully crafted blistering and incisive films about the incompetency, hypocrisy, criminalit...
"The idea of the young Pagnol visiting the older Pagnol is nowhere to be found in his books," director Sylvain Chomet tells me when it comes to A Magificent L...
I’ve done interviews in many settings: multiplexes, screening rooms, green rooms, distributor offices, post houses, cafés, hotels—many hotels—or whatever space...
Note: This interview was originally published as part of our 2025 festival coverage. The film opens in theaters on March 20.
Few films of late have better p...
“Someone at Sony Ericsson did a very good job!” Shielded from Locarno’s scorching heat inside the air-conditioned lobby of the Kursaal theater, Alexandre Kober...
Jane Alexander has one of those careers that seems impossible. Four Academy Award nominations in fourteen years. A Tony Award in 1969 for the Howard Sackler pl...
