Yep, the blog is back after a six-month hiatus—I am getting into gear for another ten days of bingeing on world cinema.  Here are my picks for which  I have locked down tickets so far:

• Closed Curtain
• 12 Years a Slave
• Like Father, Like Son
• Abuse of Weakness
• Visitors
• Devil’s Knot
• The Husband
• The Unknown Known
• Ladder to Damascus
• Rags and Tatters
• Omar
• Manuscripts Don’t Burn
• Paradise: Hope
• The Square
• Beyond The Edge
• October November
• How Strange to be Named Federico: Scola narrates Fellini