Fred Rogers’s song “What do you do with the Mad that you Feel” comes to mind when watching director Alexander…
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Every year I’m reminded that Locarno is a festival whose cinema is earned. This is my third straight year covering…
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My final dispatch from Locarno is probably the most varied of the quartet that I’ve filed. Fittingly, it’s composed of…
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Rory Kennedy has followed up her searing documentary “Downfall: The Case Against Boeing” with an update, “Freefall: A Reckoning for…
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Bold. Radical. Urgent. Those words could describe the last few years the Locarno Film Festival has screened its daring classic…
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At the end of last week, gamers lost their minds at the reveal of some new footage from the monumentally…
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The world was saddened Sunday night to learn of the death of “Heroes,” “Scream 4,” and “Nashville” star Hayden Panettiere…
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My wife, Kerry, and I embarked on another tour of drive-in theaters across the States, and while this was a…
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Though I have left Locarno, I haven’t finished writing about its many idiosyncratic offerings. The festival today announced its awards,…
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In these dispatches I often talk about themes naturally arising or not arising at all between films. Well, the throughline…
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