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In September, several things happened in quick succession: I got a new job. I got new glasses. I got into a workshop. I called my mom at seven in the morning and said, “I think I have to go to Belgium in a few weeks,” and she said, “Yeah, that makes sense.”

Tomorrow’s Cinema Today: A Halftime Report from TIFF ’18

Charles Bramesco·

Festivals

Your loyal critic-on-the-scene returns this year older and wiser, having finally gotten the hang of this 10-day endurance test in his fourth go-round.

Now Playing: Hell or High Water

Fran Hoepfner·

New Releases

After a long and stressful weekend, I went to go see Hell Or High Water by myself, and it absolutely gutted me.

Um, Actually, The Holiday is a Good Movie

Fran Hoepfner·

Issue 42: Holidays New Releases

Not all movies are cinema; The Holiday is certainly not cinema—but it is upbeat and kind and romantic and Jude Law is just, like, extremely hot here.

Room 140 | In 'Room 140 | Priscilla González Sainz

Short Film Spotlight: Room 140

Ethan Warren·

Short Film Spotlight

In Room 140, director Priscilla González Sainz supports her subjects with an unobtrusive and subtly compassionate eye, creating a vital work of art and an essential activist document.

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“Mad Men is smarter than the people who think they are smarter than Mad Men…”

Chad Perman·

Interviews Mad Men: The Final Season

An interview with Matt Zoller Seitz

The Dog Who Wouldn’t Be Quiet (all images courtesy of the Sundance Institute)

Sundancing with Myself: Dispatches from a Virtual Festival

Ethan Warren·

Festivals

If there was any tangible loss in a virtual Sundance, it wasn’t the loss of celebrity sightings and frostbitten extremities; it was the loss of a shared narrative on what the week had provided.

An Interview with Allison Janney

Chad Perman·

Interviews Issue 41: Margaret

"I’ve gotten better at letting it go, but something like that scene sort of stays with you for a bit. It’s hard to shake that off after the work is done. It definitely involved a really long hot shower and maybe a bath and a martini or something."

I Think I Cannes

Matt Patches·

Festivals Issue 2: Surreal

You adjust the bowtie on your tuxedo. I’m at Cannes, a fucking dream come true.

You Get to Live a Lot of Life: An Interview with Liv Ullmann

Lauren Wilford·

Interviews Issue 65: Ingmar Bergman

"I’ve done a lot of other things, but when I look back on my work… [my work with Bergman was] probably what gave me most life. Because I was so alive, and I was trusted so much."

Sitting Down after a Hurricane: On Songs from the Second Floor

Ashley M. Pérez García·

Extras

Ashley M. Pérez García on watching Songs from the Second Floor from Puerto Rico, in the aftermath of Hurricane María.