An interview with Todd Haynes at Locarno Film Festival
Revered director Todd Haynes has been a fixture of Locarno since 1991, when his film Poison first screened. It won the Grand Jury Prize at Sundance later that year. We interviewed Haynes at the...
View ArticleLocarno Film Festival 2017: Person to Person | Review
Person to Person chronicles a day in the life of a collection of New Yorkers. This is a film both about the desire to make meaningful connections and to make meaning of the day-to-day. We are...
View ArticlePerson to Person: An interview with writer and director Dustin Guy Defa
Dustin Guy Defa is the director, writer and editor of Person to Person, which screened at Locarno Film Festival and shares its name with an earlier short made in 2014. We talked to Dustin about what he...
View ArticleLocarno Film Festival 2017: Contes de Juillet (July Tales) | Review
Guillaume Brac serves up a small surprise with this joyful, funny short story diptych set in and around Paris. These are two simple, luminous tales with a slight edge, and both films are imbued with...
View ArticleLocarno Film Festival 2017: Qing Ting zhi yan (Dragonfly Eyes) | Review
Strange, confrontational and dizzying, Dragonfly Eyes is an undeniably ingenious piece of work. Composed entirely of real surveillance footage, director Xu Bing constructs a fictional narrative of lost...
View ArticleLocarno Film Festival 2017: Gli Asteroidi (The Asteroids) | Review
There’s a large hole in this film where wit, plot, jeopardy, excitement, emotional insight, character development and general intrigue should be. This is more the shame considering that it’s...
View ArticleLocarno Film Festival 2017: En el Séptimo Día (On the Seventh Day) | Review
Concerned with football and the immigrant experience, Jim McKay’s En el Séptimo Día is a generally well-observed, somewhat doe-eyed and uncontestably humane study of a poor, hard-working Mexican...
View ArticleGood Luck: An interview with director Ben Russell
Good Luck is the latest nonfiction work from American director Ben Russell. It is being shown in competition at this year’s Locarno Film Festival, receiving a glowing response from critics. The film...
View ArticleAn interview with Olivier Assayas at Locarno Film Festival
Esteemed film critic and director Olivier Assayas heads the jury at this year’s Locarno Film Festival. We interviewed Assayas at Hotel Belvedere, a few cobbled streets up from Piazza Grande and spoke...
View ArticleEn el Séptimo Día (On the Seventh Day): An interview with director Jim McKay
En el Séptimo Día is the latest work from American director Jim McKay. It is being shown in competition at Locarno Film Festival, closing this year’s selection. The film features a largely...
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