Tokyo International Film Festival 2024: Orang Ikan, Missing Child Videotape, Kiyoshi Kurosawa
A report from the Tokyo International Film Festival.
Festivals & Awards
London Film Festival 2024 Highlights
Highlights of this year’s BFI London Film Festival.
CIFF 2024: Compensation, The Spook Who Sat by the Door, Save the Children
On three restorations from the Chicago International Film Festival this year, all focused on the Black experience.
CIFF 2024: On the Legacy and Importance of The Spook Who Sat by the Door
A look back at the seminal Blaxploitation classic, now given new life with a 4K restoration.
CIFF 2024: Vermiglio, The Sparrow in the Chimney, Super Happy Forever
A dispatch of some international faves that come from this year’s Chicago International Film Festival.
André Holland Talks Deleted Scenes from “42”
A report from this weekend’s tribute to the star of Moonlight and Exhibiting Forgiveness.
CIFF 2024: Color Book, Transplant, Alpha
On three very different films from this year’s Chicago International Film Festival.
CIFF 2024: The Knife, Okie, Bliss
A dispatch of three dramas from the Chicago International Film Festival.
Memoir of a Snail
It’s a gorgeous film, but it’s also an emotionally intelligent movie, one that shifts and flows between comedy and tragedy, reminding us that life can only be lived forwards.
CIFF 2024: The Return of the Projectionist, Between Goodbyes, The Brink of Dreams
On three documentaries from this year’s Chicago International Film Festival.
Iowa City Celebrates with Enriching Pair of Festivals
A writer went to Iowa City for the Refocus Film Festival and Iowa City Book Festival, and reports back.
NYFF 2024: Little, Big, and Far, Lázaro at Night, 7 Walks with Mark Brown
On three unique films from the New York Film Festival.
CIFF 2024: Rita, Listen to the Voices, Peacock
On three films from CIFF from the New Directors competition.
Rumours
It’s still undeniably clever, buoyed by a great cast who know what to do with this sharp satire of world politics, but it feels a bit like a lark, a movie that is content with a chuckle instead of really biting its teeth into some of its complex subject matter.
