Urška Djukić’s Little Trouble Girls (which Chris Reed reviewed here) follows introverted 16-year-old Lucia as she joins her Catholic school’s all-girls choir and befriends Ana-Maria, a popular student. When the choir travels to a countryside convent for a weekend retreat, […]

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Writer and director Clint Bentley doesn’t make films about the exceptional. He finds the exceptional in the ordinary. Stories about jockeys past their prime, incarcerated men staging plays, and now, with Train Dreams, an Idaho logger whose entire life unfolds […]

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Richard Linklater’s career has been marked by great experimentation and variety, which makes him the perfect candidate to dramatize one of the seminal moments in film history: the making of Jean-Luc Godard’s French New Wave masterpiece Breathless. Starring a mostly […]

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We’ve all seen a bad Q and A after a film screening. They’re awkward, often they overstay their welcome, and inevitably someone has to ask, “what camera did you use?” If you go to a lot of film screenings they […]

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