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Gone Girls: Close-Up on "Bunny Lake Is Missing" and "Picnic At Hanging Rock"

Made a decade and hemispheres apart, both films revolve around displaced schoolgirls who vanish.

Berlinale 2017. Awards

And the winners of the Berlin International Film Festival are…

There Is No Such Thing As Reality: Hong Sang-Soo Discusses "On the Beach at Night Alone"

The director talks about his writing process, how he describes his own movies, working with actress Kim Min-hee, and his love of Buñuel.

Berlinale 2017. Chromesthetic Delirium and Documentary Spontaneity

A chromesthetic delirium by Marc Downie, Paul Kaiser and Ken & Flo Jacobs, and Michael Glawogger's final film closes our Berlin dispatches.

Movie Poster of the Week: The Posters of Stanislav Vajce

The colorful, pop art inspired posters of a Czech artist.

Conditions of Uncertainty: Discussing Alexandre Koberidze’s "Let the Summer Never Come Again"

How can we describe cinematic vertigo? A discussion between Koberidze, artist/curator Ruth Anderwald & filmmaker/distributor Pip Chodorov.

Love Actually: Close-Up on Albert Brooks’ "Modern Romance"

Does romance, in its most forbidden, tainted, doomed and fanciful modes, constitute the greatest enduring theme in art?

Berlinale 2017. The Space Between Love and Heartbreak

There's nothing quite like Hong Sang-soo's new film, "On The Beach At Night Alone," a non-romance where fiction slowly becomes documentary.

The Forgotten: Dimitri Kirsanoff's "Le crâneur"(1955)

Impressionist genius Dimitri Kirsanoff takes a more seasoned approach to crime melodrama "Le crâneur," starring a teenage Marina Vlady.

Rushes. Philippe Garrel on Jean Seberg, Kubrick's Typography, Terrence Malick's "Radegund"

This week’s essential news, articles, sounds, videos and more from the film world.

Berlinale 2017. Getting Better—and Funnier

With new films by Aki Kaurismäki' and Sally Potter laughs as well as quality started trickling into the festival’s Competition.

Video Essay. The World and Its Image: Josef von Sternberg’s "The Blue Angel"

A new video essay takes a different angle on Sternberg's immense cinematic achievement starring Marlene Dietrich.

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Sundance 2017 Top Picks & Coverage Roundup

A comprehensive listing of all of our coverage of the 2017 Sundance Film Festival, including favorite films.

An Endless Feast: Reflections on Marathon Viewing

An immersion into a long-form performance offers an alternative experience of time, space, viewing, breathing, and even being.

Relay: A Take in Miklós Jancsó’s "The Red and the White"

A new video essay explores what happens in a long take in Jancsó’s historical, political drama of the 1919 struggle between Communists and Cossacks

Something Wild: A Dialogue About "Justin Timberlake + The Tennessee Kids"

Two critics discuss Jonathan Demme's concert film, which transforms Timberlake's final 2015 tour appearance into a utopic vision of love.

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