Locarno Film Festival’s yearly, rotating retrospective is almost always the best and surest ticket in town. Take last year’s Columbia 100 celebration, “The Lady With The Torch,” which showed 44 classics and rarities (mostly on
Memory is a funny thing. It can form and unwind us, ground and unmoor us. It can also trick us, probably because it’s so aligned with the fluidity of time. In this latest Locarno dispatch,
The Locarno Film Festival never ceases to surprise me. The eclectic programming makes it so that you’re never seeing two films that are wholly alike. In this dispatch, for instance, are three works that couldn’t
★★★ There are echoes of the Jordan Peele in Zach Cregger’s ascendancy from sitcom frequenter to horror messiah. Indeed, much as was the case for Peale’s Get Out, Cregger already finds himself proclaimed the voice
★★★★ There’s a generation out there for whom a sequel to 2003 body swap comedy Freaky Friday enjoys the same nostalgia premium as did the return of Star Wars in 2015’s The Force Awakens to
It’s August, so the leopard is ready to roar again. In its 78th year, the Locarno Film Festival, located in Switzerland by the blissful Lake Maggiore, returns with a slate that’s as hot as the
★★★ It’s hard not to feel for Henry Cavill on watching James Gunn’s revitalised Superman, freshly rendered, as it is, in the sort of bright hues that have proven anathema to the character since 2013.
The world’s largest genre film festival, Montreal’s Fantasia International Film Festival is one of the most exciting, not to mention lengthy (it typically runs two, sometimes nearly three weeks), fests in the calendar year. It’s
One of the world’s oldest film festivals, and the most prestigious such festival in Central and Eastern Europe, the Karlovy Vary Film Festival kicked off its 59th edition Friday night with an opulent opening ceremony,
The Karlovy Vary International Film Festival will pay tribute to Stellan Skarsgård, Vicky Krieps, Dakota Johnson, and Peter Sarsgaard, welcoming the actors to personally present screenings of their recent films, festival organizers for the upcoming