Children‘s song: the 92-year-old filmmaker, visual artist, musician, and activist reflects on her influential body of work, currently the subject of a major retrospective at MoMA PS1

Film Comment Magazine

17.06.2025

Kampung Film Festival 2025: Oceanic Feeling

Here today: a new festival defiantly reclaims a lost history, bringing contemporary and classic Cambodian cinema to a local audience

Film Comment Magazine

10.06.2025

Interview: Christian Petzold on Mirrors No. 3

Road music: the German auteur discusses his latest tale of hauntings and doublings, which follows a morose piano student who wanders into the life of an enigmatic woman

Film Comment Magazine

10.06.2025

Cannes 2025: Lamming It

End of the road: new films by Kelly Reichardt, Kleber Mendonça Filho, Julia Ducournau, and Sergei Loznitsa explore the politics of time

Film Comment Magazine

05.06.2025

The Film Comment Podcast: Cannes 2025 #10 — The Voice of Documentary

Listen in: filmmakers Eduardo Williams, Brett Story, and Zoya Laktionova discuss the ethical and practical ways in which documentaries use sound, voice, and audio

Film Comment Magazine

31.05.2025

Interview: Spike Lee on Highest 2 Lowest

Going express: the filmmaker discusses his contemporary reimagining of Kurosawa’s classic, working again with Denzel Washington, and what makes New York City such a rich setting and subject

Film Comment Magazine

31.05.2025

Impossible Reality

Get a grip: Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning celebrates the tenacity and power of the human body struggling against technology

Film Comment Magazine

28.05.2025

Cannes 2025: Every Grain of Sand

Pressing on: standouts of the second week of the festival included Pedro Pinho’s I Only Rest in the Storm, Julia Ducournau’s Alpha, and Jafar Panahi’s It Was Just an Accident

Film Comment Magazine

28.05.2025

Interview: Jafar Panahi on It Was Just an Accident

Political world: the Iranian auteur speaks about his Palme d‘Or–winning latest, a typically ingenious meditation on the lasting effects of state repression

Film Comment Magazine

26.05.2025

The Film Comment Podcast: 2025 #9

Shelter from the storm: critics Justin Chang, Tim Grierson, and Allison Willmore wrap up the 2025 edition with Bi Gan’s Resurrection, Kelly Reichardt’s The Mastermind, and more

Film Comment Magazine

24.05.2025

The Film Comment Podcast: Cannes 2025 #8

Family ties: Abby Sun, Beatrice Loayza, and Giovanni Marchini Camia join to discuss Joachim Trier’s Sentimental Value, Carla Simón's Romería, and more

Film Comment Magazine

23.05.2025

The Film Comment Podcast: Cannes 2025 #7

Sail away: Kong Rithdee and Inney Prakash join to debate Lav Diaz’s Magellan, Jafar Panahi’s It Was Just an Accident, and more

Film Comment Magazine

23.05.2025

Cannes 2025: Out of Breath

Running on empty: Ari Aster‘s Eddington, Christian Petzold‘s Mirrors No. 3, and Richard Linklater’s Nouvelle Vague fail to be more than mere reflections of their grander ambitions and inspirations

Film Comment Magazine

23.05.2025

Interview: Oliver Laxe on Sirât

Rave on: the French-born Galician director discusses his latest, a trance-inducing techno vision quest set in Morocco’s Sahara Desert

Film Comment Magazine

22.05.2025

The Film Comment Podcast: Cannes 2025 #6

Roll on: Miriam Bale, Robert Daniels, and Jessica Kiang drop a token and talk Highest 2 Lowest, Alpha, and My Father's Show, and more

Film Comment Magazine

21.05.2025

The Film Comment Podcast: Cannes 2025 #5

Under cover: Kong Rithdee and Neta Alexander join to discuss Kleber Mendonça Filho's The Secret Agent, Christian Petzold's Mirrors No. 3, and Sebastián Lelio's The Wave

Film Comment Magazine

20.05.2025

The Film Comment Podcast: Cannes 2025 #4

Drink deep: critics Mark Asch, Kong Rithdee, and Isabel Steven join to swim through recent premieres Die My Love, The Chronology of Water, Nouvelle Vague, and Urchin

Film Comment Magazine

20.05.2025

Cannes 2025: Stiff Upper Lips

Reality bites: early festival selections like Enzo, Promised Sky, and Adam's Sake were rooted in straight-down-the-line realism

Film Comment Magazine

18.05.2025

The Film Comment Podcast: Cannes 2025 #3

No holds barred: critics Mark Asch and Beatrice Loayza join to debate recent premieres Eddington, Sirât, and The Little Sister

Film Comment Magazine

17.05.2025

The Film Comment Podcast: Cannes 2025 #2

Don’t let go: Isabel Stevens and Thomas Flew from Sight and Sound join to discuss Mission Impossible – The Final Reckoning, Two Prosecutors, and Left-Handed Girl

Film Comment Magazine

16.05.2025

Cannes 2025: Maps and Legends

Key frames: the world’s grandest film festival may be a large-format photo of the cinematic planet, but it is not a map of the world

Film Comment Magazine

16.05.2025

The Film Comment Podcast: Cannes 2025 #1

First impressions: critics Jonathan Romney and Guy Lodge join to kick off our festival coverage, discussing early selections Leave One Day, Enzo, and Sound of Falling

Film Comment Magazine

13.05.2025

I Write Your Name

Hold fast: the Guadeloupean-French filmmaker, currently the focus of a major retrospective at MoMA, never compromised on her ideological and artistic commitments

Film Comment Magazine

13.05.2025

Dressed for Success

Grounded: a nuanced perception of a band with many faces emerges from Alex Ross Perry‘s biopic-doc hybrid Pavements

Film Comment Magazine

03.05.2025

The Film Comment Podcast: A Conversation with Tom Gunning

Major attractions: the legendary scholar joins the FC Editors and programmer David Schwartz for a lively and wide-ranging discussion

Film Comment Magazine

30.04.2025

The Film Comment Podcast: New Releases

Burning down the house: Robert Daniels and Michael Blair join to discuss Ryan Coogler’s Sinners, Steven Soderbergh’s Black Bag, and Andrew Ahn’s The Wedding Banquet

Film Comment Magazine

29.04.2025

Film Comment Recommends: Kumar Shahani and Ashish Avikunthak at Prismatic Ground

Wade out: the New York–based festival is honoring two Indian filmmakers whose works, despite their seeming hermeticism, stand in serious dialogue with the politics of their times

Film Comment Magazine

29.04.2025

Print Out: There Is No Future in Nostalgia

Phantom pictures: the Singaporean filmmaker reflects on how the urban landscapes and communities depicted in his 2018 feature A Land Imagined have since disappeared due to relentless industrial redevelopment

Film Comment Magazine

29.04.2025

Show Biz Kids

For your consideration: Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg’s new Apple TV series The Studio sets out to lampoon executive-class know-nothings at a major Hollywood production company, but does its satire actually pack a punch?

Film Comment Magazine

22.04.2025

Interview: Pedro Almodóvar

Talk to him: the recipient of Film at Lincoln Center’s 50th Chaplin Award reflects on his subversively queer cinema, his love for actors, and making films in times of authoritarianism

Film Comment Magazine

16.04.2025

Twice as Nice

Double trouble: Barry Levinson‘s new mob movie trades on the gambit of its two Robert De Niro performances, yet fails to imbue them with any more brio than one finds in an SNL sketch

Film Comment Magazine

16.04.2025

The Film Comment Podcast: David Cronenberg on The Shrouds

Grief stages: the Canadian auteur discusses making art to process loss, the eroticism of conspiracy theories, and why his latest is very much a Toronto film

Film Comment Magazine

15.04.2025

Interview: Maxime Jean-Baptiste on Listen to the Voices

New rhythms: the filmmaker discusses his intimate French Guiana–set debut feature, which reverberates with the collective call contained in its title

Film Comment Magazine

08.04.2025

Interview: Alexander Horwath on Henry Fonda for President

Watching the show: the Austrian critic and curator discusses his debut feature, a cinematic essay that investigates the on- and off-screen personas of the legendary American actor, and what they reveal about the United States then and now

Film Comment Magazine

08.04.2025

I Remember Me

Long journey: Sarah Friedland‘s debut feature Familiar Touch—the Opening Night selection of this year’s New Directors/New Films Festival—is the rare film about aging that bypasses the lurid and the exploitative

Film Comment Magazine

03.04.2025

The Film Comment Podcast: New Directors/New Films 2025

On the lookout: critics Mark Asch and Natalia Keogan join to discuss this year’s lineup of films by emerging directors, including Familiar Touch, Mad Bills to Pay, Lost Chapters, and more

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The Film Comment Podcast: GriGris with Malcolm Harris and Anselm Kizza-Besigye

Country Living

Tribeca 2025: Bigger Than the Screen

The Film Comment Podcast: Familiar Touch, with Kathleen Chalfant and Molly Haskell

Interview: Alanis Obomsawin on The Children Have to Hear Another Story

Kampung Film Festival 2025: Oceanic Feeling

Interview: Christian Petzold on Mirrors No. 3

Cannes 2025: Lamming It

The Film Comment Podcast: Cannes 2025 #10 — The Voice of Documentary

Interview: Spike Lee on Highest 2 Lowest

Impossible Reality

Cannes 2025: Every Grain of Sand

Interview: Jafar Panahi on It Was Just an Accident

The Film Comment Podcast: 2025 #9

The Film Comment Podcast: Cannes 2025 #8

The Film Comment Podcast: Cannes 2025 #7

Cannes 2025: Out of Breath

Interview: Oliver Laxe on Sirât

The Film Comment Podcast: Cannes 2025 #6

The Film Comment Podcast: Cannes 2025 #5

The Film Comment Podcast: Cannes 2025 #4

Cannes 2025: Stiff Upper Lips

The Film Comment Podcast: Cannes 2025 #3

The Film Comment Podcast: Cannes 2025 #2

Cannes 2025: Maps and Legends

The Film Comment Podcast: Cannes 2025 #1

I Write Your Name

Dressed for Success

The Film Comment Podcast: A Conversation with Tom Gunning

The Film Comment Podcast: New Releases

Film Comment Recommends: Kumar Shahani and Ashish Avikunthak at Prismatic Ground

Print Out: There Is No Future in Nostalgia

Show Biz Kids

Interview: Pedro Almodóvar

Twice as Nice

The Film Comment Podcast: David Cronenberg on The Shrouds

Interview: Maxime Jean-Baptiste on Listen to the Voices

Interview: Alexander Horwath on Henry Fonda for President

I Remember Me

The Film Comment Podcast: New Directors/New Films 2025

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