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By Annette Hinkle Giulia D’Agnolo Vallan was on a macabre mission last week — it involved driving out to the East End from New York City with a skeleton riding along in the passenger seat of her car. But don’t worry. This wasn’t some misguided effort

Millie Brady, known for the BBC/Netflix series “The Last Kingdom” and recently seen in...

A panel composed of representatives from A-list festivals got together on Sunday for an online talk staged by documentary film festival Visions du Réel to discuss the place of documentary films at their events. The speakers were Giulia D’Agnolo Vallan, U.S. programmer and selection committee member of the Venice Film Festival, Cristina Nord, head of the Berlinale Forum, Eva Sangiorgi, director of the Viennale, and Frédéric Boyer, artistic director of the Tribeca Film Festival. Asked to outl...

“ Thank you for the days / those endless days, those sacred days you gave me” So begins the classic 1968 single by the Kinks, and Tsai Ming-Liang has an apposite poster tagline here if he needs it. But altering any one element of this immaculate comeback feature––say, putting this very track against the closing credits––would be heresy, especially when it already contains a beautiful use of diegetic music in the theme from Chaplin’s Limelight. I was lucky enough to see his tender...