Here today: a new festival defiantly reclaims a lost history, bringing contemporary and classic Cambodian cinema to a local ...

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An intriguing, combustible cocktail of deceptive calm and nervous energy, Ben Foster has been someone to keep an eye on after stealing not one but three movies in 2007 (Alpha Dog, 30 Days of Night, ...

Receiving the Best Actress award at the 2010 Cannes Film Festival for her role in Abbas Kiarostami’s Certified Copy, Juliette Binoche held up a sign bearing the name of Kiarostami’s frequent ...

Oliver Laxe’s fourth feature, Sirât, is the French-born Galician director’s first film to premiere in Competition at Cannes, where it’s been a highlight of the 2025 festival’s first week. A singular ...

This article appeared in the May 21, 2025 edition of The Film Comment Letter, our free weekly newsletter featuring original film criticism and writing. Sign up for the Letter here. Nouvelle Vague ...

Time itself was one of Varda’s subjects, particularly its subjectivity as felt experience and memory. As she says in a voiceover while explicating Jacquot de Nantes (1991),she made that film as ...