Film Festivals

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At the 59th Berlin International Film Festival, a disdain for Hollywood movies bumps up against a hunt for celebrities -- and wild boars.
By Stephanie Zacharek Feb 9, 2009

  • Ashton Kutcher, American gigolo

    The wisecracking TV host and trophy husband proves he can act in "Spread," a deceptively dark SoCal sex satire
    By Andrew O'Hehir August 13, 2009

  • Exit the dragon

    Nine years after the "Crouching Tiger" breakthrough, Asian cinema has virtually disappeared from American screens
    By Andrew O'Hehir June 25, 2009

  • Cannes roundup: Lars von Trier and Jane Campion ... they're ba-a-ack!

    Danish bad boy's gruesome horror venture outrages some, thrills others. In other news from 1995, "Piano" director debuts a poetic period piece, Francis Coppola goes indie and more.
    By Andrew O'Hehir May 18, 2009

  • Tribeca: Best of the fest

    An Irish horror-romance-farce, an Iranian take on "L'Avventura," a gritty lesbian thriller, a black-and-white jazz musical -- and go-kart racing.
    By Andrew O'Hehir May 5, 2009

  • Rorschach "Rachel"

    An Israeli film explores the ambiguous death of Rachel Corrie, peacenik angel to some and "terrorist-loving swine" to others.
    By Andrew O'Hehir May 3, 2009

  • Tribeca: From fake suburbia to Vegas, with devil worship

    Foulmouthed Geena Davis can't save a suburban yarn made by aliens (or Australians); a mythic fable of desert greed; a neo-retro horror delight.
    By Andrew O'Hehir April 29, 2009

  • Handicapping Manhattan's spring movie fling

    Newly downsized and shorn of Hollywood glitz, Robert De Niro's Tribeca Film Festival remains a vigorous venue for cinematic discoveries.
    By Andrew O'Hehir April 24, 2009

  • The best of Sundance '09

    Park City's hottest films, from a glittering early-'60s girlhood to a pulse-pounding Mexican gang thriller, Jim Carrey as a gay con man, the Wounded Knee occupation and more.
    By Andrew O'Hehir January 26, 2009

  • Who killed Flipper?

    The filmmakers behind "The Cove" discuss the shocking Sundance documentary that may forever change how we feel about dolphins in captivity.
    By Andrew O'Hehir January 22, 2009

  • Don't you want me, baby?

    After Obama, it was back to the '80s at Sundance, from the hideous Bret Easton Ellis nightmare "The Informers" to Greg Mottola's delightful rom-com "Adventureland."
    By Andrew O'Hehir January 21, 2009

  • "Two straight dudes getting it on"

    Actors Mark Duplass and Joshua Leonard talk about their challenging task in the button-pushing Sundance hit "Humpday."
    By Andrew O'Hehir January 21, 2009

  • Jim Carrey's epic romance (in prison)

    At Sundance, a star-studded, utterly deranged gay love story caps the opening weekend. But a dazzling tale of girlhood in '60s London steals the show.
    By Andrew O'Hehir January 19, 2009

  • Your Sundance gigolo report

    Ashton Kutcher sells body but not soul in dark, sexy "Spread"; Ethan Hawke, Richard Gere and Don Cheadle play good-cop, bad-cop; Anna Wintour, human being!
    By Andrew O'Hehir January 18, 2009

  • Dude + dude = porno!

    Sundance opens: Straight buds dare each other to go all the way in "Humpday"; claymation "Mary and Max" paints a pen-pal friendship in loving shades of bird poop.
    By Andrew O'Hehir January 17, 2009

  • Downsizing hits Sundance

    I'm off to the mysteriously non-cold Utah slopes to see Jim Carrey go gay, Ashton Kutcher play a gigolo and Paul Giamatti sell his soul. Did somebody say recession?
    By Andrew O'Hehir January 15, 2009

  • Angelina, Mickey Rourke and disco madness

    From Clint's "Changeling" to Soderbergh's "Che" and beyond, the New York Film Festival sets the table for the fall's Oscar hopefuls, art-house maybes and wild-eyed cinematic rebels.
    By Andrew O'Hehir September 25, 2008

  • Japanese film's not-so-new new wave

    Asia's greatest cinema power never really lost its mojo. But 10 years after Kurosawa's death, Japanese movies are hotter (and weirder) than ever.
    By Andrew O'Hehir July 2, 2008

  • Post-Cannes update: Sony claims "Bashir" and "Tyson"

    What art-house recession? Sony Classics buys Israeli animation, boxing doc, Belgian crime drama. IFC grabs "Gomorrah," but no word on "Che," "Synecdoche."
    By Andrew O'Hehir May 29, 2008

  • "My kids think I work in a trailer"

    In this interview and podcast, Julianne Moore talks about being a normal mom and her distinctly abnormal role in the incest-murder drama "Savage Grace."
    By Andrew O'Hehir May 29, 2008

  • At Cannes, a big win for old Europe

    Laurent Cantet's joyful, tragic "The Class" is the first French Palme d'Or winner in 21 years; Benicio del Toro named best actor for "Che."
    By Andrew O'Hehir May 26, 2008

  • Why the Cannes boo-birds are wrong (as usual)

    Argentine director Lucrecia Martel talks about her intriguing class-war drama "The Headless Woman" and its hostile reception at Cannes.
    By Andrew O'Hehir May 25, 2008

  • Soderbergh's spectacular "Che"-volution

    Messy, unfinished and utterly mesmerizing, Steven Soderbergh's two-part, four-hour Che Guevara opus, starring Benicio del Toro, sets Cannes buzzing.
    May 22, 2008

  • Torn between "Two Lovers"

    In this podcast from Cannes, director James Gray talks about his intriguing romantic drama starring Joaquin Phoenix, Gwyneth Paltrow and Isabella Rossellini.
    By Andrew O'Hehir May 21, 2008

  • Clint, Angelina and the movie with no name

    Eastwood and his pregnant star bring their moody 1920s L.A. thriller to Cannes. But what's it called?
    By Andrew O'Hehir May 20, 2008
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