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...
Few subjects constitute a better benchmark than Werner Herzog, who quite literally needs no introduction and to whom I will, accordingly, not grant such.
He...
Nominated for Best Documentary Short Film at the 98th Academy Awards, perfectly a strangeness marks the first short from Canadian filmmaker Alison McAlpine, di...
From its humble beginnings as a scrappy viral web series nearly two decades ago, Matt Johnson and Jay McCarrol's Groundhog Day-esque mission of attempting to b...
Cashiers Du Cinéma, the madcap comic zine that examines the lives of movie theater employees, has programmed a new ten-film series kicking off at BAM this Frid...
