Speaking about Life of Pi, in which a teenage boy spends many months on a lifeboat in the Pacific Ocean following a terrible ...

Video life: highlights of this year’s edition included films by Alex Ross Perry, Artemis Shaw and Prashanth Kamalakanthan, ...

Life of the mind: many of the films on view through the festival‘s virtual portal ranged from pallid to dismal, but Khalil ...

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As I was writing this report from Sundance 2025, the festival announced the winner of its Grand Jury Prize in the U.S. Dramatic Competition: Hailey Gates’s Atropia, a mordant satire set in one of ...

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As told to Manu Yáñez Murillo. This is an extended version of an article that appears the May-June issue of Film Comment. I first knew about Raúl Ruiz through my father, Luis Alarcón, who was a ...