Film Festivals

The Return of John Sayles and Other Observations from SXSW

Richard Peña's Long Goodbye

25 years and 700 movies later, an institution exits the NYFF

COPS AS ROBBERS

Asian cinema explodes at the NYAFF

This Week in The Voice: When a Cop Lies About Sex

This week in the Voice, out today, Graham Rayman tells a sordid story of sex, power, and text messaging involving a Palisades Interstate Parkway police officer's relationship with a Brooklyn woman, writing: "During the course of her interaction with the Palisades cops in 2010, she had an affair with ... More >>

Identity Crises at Cannes 2012

Films, stars, and the festival itself combat easy categorization

Summer Film Guide: Rooftop Films and Spaghetti Westerns

SUNDANCE IN SOHO

A movie pass around the globe

INDIE GEMS

A new film fest opens in Hell's Kitchen

GET YOUR MOTOR RUNNIN'

Easy Rider zooms into Bryant Park

Rebels of the Neon God

MUPPET AROUND TOWN

Drive-in fun, no car needed

Cults and Ingenue Fever at Sundance

The Venice Film Festival -- That's a Wrap

​Back from the Lido, I learned that Somewhere, Sofia Coppola's slight, stringent, not-quite sentimental tale of a movie star on the edge of a nervous breakdown and the 11-year-old daughter that loves him, had won the Golden Lion at the 67th Venice Film Festival--the "unanimous choice" per jury ... More >>

The Hunger

John Woo's Red Cliff, Uncut

Kung Fu Chefs Provides Meaty Comedy at the NY Asian Film Festival

Though the New York City Food Film Festival is getting the lion's share of the headlines this week, the New York Asian Film Festival also promises to give food-obsessed cinephiles something to slobber over when it kicks off tomorrow.

Migrating Forms and the Search for Meaning

All avant-garde all the time at Anthology

Advice for the Tribeca Film Festival: Party Harder!

Times Critics to the NY Film Fest: Stop Picking Such Good Movies. It's Depressing!

​As film journalists gird for next week's Tribeca Film Festival, it's useful to recall the invective recently inspired by the city's other major film fest. The 2009 New York Film Festival, presented last fall by the Film Society of Lincoln Center, was the first under the administrative leaders ... More >>

2010: The Year SXSW Film Broke

At 17, you were going through some changes, too

HEAVENLY CINEMA

Move over, Sundance—it's our turn

Rebels of the Neon God

MODERN BRAZIL

From Rio de Janeiro to Fifth Avenue

BROOKLYN (MODERN) LOVE

Sometimes the only way to get to love is through a tragedy

Lars von Trier's Antichrist Can't Save this Year's Cannes

LOLA-CITA

Restoring Max Ophül's masterpiece

Baghead from Jay and Mark Duplass

EASTERN PROMISES

The best of contemporary Japanese films

ASIAN SENSATIONS

The East meets the East Coast

Lights, Camera, Brooklyn!

Darkness Falls Across the Land

HOT REELS

Kink makes a stink

Portobella Ode

The celebrated Catalan director gets his first NY retrospective

Flash in the Can

Lesbian schoolgirl terrorists and hair extensions gone wild? Must be the NYAFF

The Good, Bad, and Truly Spectacular: Tribeca Film Festival 2007

Rising ticket prices! Sponsorship gone awry! Oh yes, and a movie you do not want to miss.

Cine-mex

South of the border film fest proves Peter Bart wrong

A Very (Very) Long Engagement

12-plus-hour Out 1 returns to MOMI. Bring snacks.

Before the Revolution

In Cannes's second week, Coppola falters, Linklater rebounds, and Spanish-language films surge

Tiger Beat

After Sundance short-shrift, American independent films get their due in Rotterdam

The Cine of Lost Children

Arrested development: Two American independent directors stage comebacks in Toronto

Better Luck Today: Asian Fest Imagines There's No Countries

My Bunny Valentine

Vincent Gallo at Cannes: A Blow-by-Blow Account

Roads to Perdition

Doomsday Visions and Ugly Americans at the Cannes Film Festival

Van Sant Wins Top Prize at Cannes

Sim City

Indulging in Cannes's Desserts of the Reel

Polanski Wins Top Prize at Cannes

God and Man at Cannes

The Mirror Has Two Faces

Past Masters and Possible Worlds

Venetian Finds

Tough Sells and Transported Cinephiles

In the Cannes

Fest Forward

Digital Video at Cannes