Under Duress
Editor B. Ruby Rich weighs in on the latest issue of FQ, new revivals in a time of duress, trends in distribution, FQ’s approach to watching, writing, thinking about cinema and media in a time of ongoing political repression, and more.
All posts tagged: Film Festivals
When History Makes the Cut
FQ Editor-in-Chief B. Ruby Rich weighs in on the latest issue of FQ, new trends in streaming, FQ‘s panel at Film Society of Lincoln Center, and what media makers, critics, and scholars might do toward a new “cinema of urgency.”
Morelia Film Festival
Eleven years after its launch, the Morelia International Film Festival (Festival Internacional de Cine de Morelia, FICM) is still Mexico’s most vibrant venue for both up-and-coming and established filmmakers.
Winter 2013: Volume 67, Number 2
FEATURES: A Special Dossier on The Act of Killing; An interview with Fatimah Tobing Rony; The Morelia Film Festival; Sundance at Thirty; and more…
A Sentimental Education
“Last year’s Cannes was the best I’ve attended in twenty-seven years. This year was the worst…”
Smoke and Mirrors: New Directors/New Films 2012
Megan Ratner reports from New York’s New Directors/New Films festival, praising The Minister, Las Acacias, and Stanley Kubrick’s debut Fear and Desire.
Revision Kino: Berlin International Film Festival 2012
Brigitta B. Wagner reports from the 2012 Berlin International Film Festival, reviewing Farewell My Queen, Sister, Jaurès, Revision, Barbara, and Our Homeland.
Park City Remix
When the Sundance Film Festival debuted in the 1980s, it entered a landscape dominated by a small corps of well-established A-list film festivals: New York, Chicago, San Francisco. A scrappy upstart, it quickly crashed the VIP room with the help of Robert Redford’s celebrity
Winter 2010: Volume 64, Number 2
FEATURES: A survey of Kathryn Bigelow’s cinema; an interview with Patrick Keiller; a reflection on the links between documentary and avant-garde; and the visionary television shows World on a Wire and Artemis 81
READ: Cristi Puiu Discusses Aurora, At the Edge of History, London Notebook, and Interview with Olivier Assayas
Fall 2010: Volume 64, Number 1
FEATURES: Interviews with Atom Egoyan and Elia Suleiman, and Straub–Huillet’s Radical Cinema
READ: The Kraken Wakes, Empire of the Father, Tears in the Neighborhood, and Jobs Well Done
