La Notte


A web exclusive review by the
Celluloid Liberation Front.

The 2009 Thessaloniki Documentary Festival


A Dirge and Paean for Documentary: Thessaloniki 2009 by Gabriel M. Paletz.

2009 Tribeca Film Festival


This year’s Tribeca Film Fest featured a handful of intriguing titles. With the assistance of Michael Miller, here is Gary M. Kramer's rundown on a quartet of films that unspooled.

Film International #38


In this special issue by Guest Editor Michael Tapper, we examine crime in cinema and television. Among other things, we take close looks at Ashes to Ashes, Korean crime-comedies, the Swedish Wallander phenomenon, and the British female cop show. Plus: Festival reports! Reviews! And more!

(Full list of contents after the jump.)

Fear of Heaven


This essay by Victoria Jaschob was one of the Honorable Mentions of the 2008 Frank Capra Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Film Criticism.