Below you will find our favorite films of the 68th Locarno Film Festival, as well as an index of our coverage.
DANIEL KASMAN
TOP PICKS
I. L’Accademia delle Muse, Cosmos
II. Thithi, Happy Hour, Right Now, Wrong Then
III. Deux Rémi, deux, 88:88
COVERAGE
Day 1: James White (Josh Mond), Invasion of the Body Snatchers (Don Siegel)
Day 2: Infinitas (Marlen Khutsiev), I Am Twenty (Marlen Khutsiev), The Ballad of Cable Hogue (Sam Peckinpah)
Day 3: Cosmos (Andrzej Żuławski), The Wild Bunch (Sam Peckinpah)
Day 4: Thithi (Raam Reddy), Te prometo anarquía (Julio Hernández Cordón), Chant d'hiver (Otar Iosseliani), July Rain (Marlen Khutsiev), Year of the Dragon (Michael Cimino)
Day 5: L’Accademia delle Muse (José Luis Guerín), Les idoles (Marc'O), Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid (Sam Peckinpah), The Killer Elite (Sam Peckinpah)
Day 6: Good Morning, Night (Marco Bellocchio), No Home Movie (Chantal Akerman), Epilogue (Marlen Khutsiev)
Day 7: Chevalier (Athina Rachel Tsangari), It Was the Month of May (Marlen Khutsiev), Deux Rémi, deux (Pierre Léon)
Day 8: Right Now, Wrong Then (Hong Sang-soo), 88:88 (Isiah Medina), Two Fyodors (Marlen Khutsiev)
Day 9: Happy Hour (Ryusuke Hamaguchi)
INTERVIEWS
Chantal Akerman Discusses No Home Movie
CHRISTOPHER SMALL & DANIEL KASMAN
INTERVIEWS
That Day the Snow Fell: Hong Sang-soo Discusses Right Now, Wrong Then
MARIE-PIERRE DUHAMEL
Impressions: Checks and Balances (Malek Bensmail), Kaili Blues (Bi Gan), Dark in the White Light (Vimukthi Jayasundara), Chevalier (Athina Rachel Tsangari), Winter Song (Otar Iosseliani), Dom Juan (Vincent Macaigne), Bella e perduta (Pietro Marcello), Le bois dont les rêves sont faits (Claire Simon)
NATHAN LETORÉ
INTERVIEWS
Faces: L’Accademia delle muse and José Luis Guerín
FERNANDO GANZO
The Traitor and the Hero: Sam Peckinpah
CARLO CHATRIAN