Field reports: films like Cover-Up, Landmarks, and The Voice of Hind Rajab pierced through the festival’s illusive bubble with lightning bolts of reality

Film Comment Magazine

12.09.2025

The Film Comment Podcast: Spinal Tap on Spinal Tap II: The End Continues

Break like the wind: the legendary British rockers are joined by their longtime creative foil, filmmaker Marty DiBergi, to discuss their long, loud career

Film Comment Magazine

06.09.2025

The Film Comment Podcast: Venice 2025 #6

Walk on by: Guy Lodge and and Öykü Sofuoğlu join to discuss Duse, Remake, The Voice of Hind Rajab, and more

Film Comment Magazine

05.09.2025

The Film Comment Podcast: Venice 2025 #5

Rock of ages: critics Savina Petkova and Jordan Mintzer join to discuss Benny Safdie's The Smashing Machine, Lucrecia Martel's Nuestra Tierra (Landmarks), and more

Film Comment Magazine

04.09.2025

The Film Comment Podcast: Venice 2025 #4

Family affair: Bilge Ebiri and Jonathan Romney join to discuss Jim Jarmusch’s Father Mother Brother Sister, Kent Jones’s Late Fame, and more

Film Comment Magazine

02.09.2025

The Film Comment Podcast: Venice 2025 #1

Golden years: Jonathan Romney and Jordan Cronk join to discuss early festival premieres Jay Kelly, Bugonia, La grazia, and more

Film Comment Magazine

02.09.2025

The Film Comment Podcast: Venice 2025 #3

Built to last: critics Joseph Fahim and Öykü Sofuoğlu join to discuss festival premieres including Guillermo Del Toro’s Frankenstein, Jihan K’s My Father and Qaddafi, and more

Film Comment Magazine

02.09.2025

The Film Comment Podcast: Venice 2025 #2

Crashing out: critics Katie McCabe and Tim Grierson join to discuss festival premieres including Luca Guadagnino’s After the Hunt, Park Chan-wook’s No Other Choice, and more

Film Comment Magazine

26.08.2025

Something in the Air

War report: intimate and epic, My Undesirable Friends: Part One follows a small cohort of oppositional journalists in Putin’s Russia during the run-up to the military invasion of Ukraine

Film Comment Magazine

26.08.2025

Locarno 2025: Past Perfect

Video life: many of the best films at this year’s festival—including Blue Heron, God Will Not Help, and Dry Leaf—explored the imperfect nature of recollection

Film Comment Magazine

25.08.2025

The Film Comment Podcast: Locarno 2025

Tooth and nail: Inney Prakash and Cici Peng join to discuss festival highlights Dracula, Dry Leaf, With Hasan in Gaza, and more

Film Comment Magazine

25.08.2025

The Film Comment Podcast: Alexandre Koberidze and Miguel Gomes at Locarno 2025

Still lives: the two acclaimed directors discuss their latest films, the practicalities of their unique production methods, and more

Film Comment Magazine

08.08.2025

Never the Same River Twice

Water colors: the Argentine filmmaker pens and paints a tribute to Hong Sangsoo’s latest “river film," By the Stream

Film Comment Magazine

08.08.2025

Unjust Cause

Charged as guilty: Roman Polanski‘s J'accuse, which dramatizes the infamous Dreyfus Affair, premiered to great acclaim in France—but soon led to further allegations of sexual abuse by the director

Film Comment Magazine

01.08.2025

The Film Comment Podcast: Summer Rep Report

Now seating: Gina Telaroli, Benjamin Crais, and Michael Blair spotlight unmissable repertory series playing in New York City

Film Comment Magazine

29.07.2025

Karlovy Vary 2025: Nothing Feels Normal

Stop that train: the recursions of a painful past preoccupied many of the best films at this year’s edition of the Czech festival

Film Comment Magazine

29.07.2025

Interview: Alexandra Juhasz on Please Hold

Together now: the moving-image artist and scholar discusses her decades-long practice of “memory work”

Film Comment Magazine

29.07.2025

If You Build It

Seat yourself: three independent cinemas opening in New York City are betting that audiences still prefer collective experiences of art and urban space

Film Comment Magazine

29.07.2025

Interview: Peter Tscherkassky

Train tracks: the Austrian experimental filmmaker discusses using found footage to interrogate and play with the past

Film Comment Magazine

16.07.2025

The Film Comment Podcast: Cinema of the Rice Cooker

Let them cook: Phoebe Chen, Bedatri Datta Choudhury, and Joseph Hernandez join to discuss the humble household appliance’s enduring on-screen appeal

Film Comment Magazine

15.07.2025

Il Cinema Ritrovato 2025: Hot Bologna Nights

On fire: at this year’s edition of the festival devoted to rediscoveries and restorations, distinctions between high and low art dissolved into the heat of the air

Film Comment Magazine

15.07.2025

Interview: John Smith on Being John Smith

Name game: the renowned British experimental filmmaker speaks about his latest, a politically charged and cheekily playful essay film

Film Comment Magazine

08.07.2025

Structural Integrity

Circuit cities: the Mumbai-based collaborative art studio CAMP experiments with media technology in playful and political ways

Film Comment Magazine

08.07.2025

From Cell to Screenplay: Finding My Voice Behind Bars

New scene: the incarcerated journalist shares her painstaking journey to teach herself screenwriting in prison

Film Comment Magazine

04.07.2025

The Film Comment Podcast: Summer New Releases

Start your engines: critics Alana Pockros and Adam Nayman join to discuss F1, Materialists, 28 Years Later, and more

Film Comment Magazine

01.07.2025

Modern Love

Walks beside me: an inclusive, elastic understanding of modern queer lives emerges across Dag Johan Haugerud’s Sex/Dreams/Love trilogy

Film Comment Magazine

01.07.2025

Animal Magnetism

Bull in the heather: Albert Serra‘s challenging and visceral portrait of a matador is one of the year’s best films

Film Comment Magazine

26.06.2025

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

Fire escapes: the acclaimed author joins to discuss Mahamat-Saleh Haroun’s 2013 thriller, cinematic portrayals of the climate crisis, and more

Film Comment Magazine

24.06.2025

Country Living

This whole world: the films of Pierre Creton model a communal life removed from urban capitalism, nationalism, and traditional family structures

Film Comment Magazine

24.06.2025

Tribeca 2025: Bigger Than the Screen

Heroes and villains: the festival largely made good on its promise to show socially relevant works from independent and early-career filmmakers

Film Comment Magazine

19.06.2025

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

Recipe for living: the stalwart actor talks to the legendary film critic about her latest role as an octogenarian settling into a nursing home

Film Comment Magazine

17.06.2025

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Hard Truths: Venice 2025

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Something in the Air

Locarno 2025: Past Perfect

The Film Comment Podcast: Locarno 2025

The Film Comment Podcast: Alexandre Koberidze and Miguel Gomes at Locarno 2025

Never the Same River Twice

Unjust Cause

The Film Comment Podcast: Summer Rep Report

Karlovy Vary 2025: Nothing Feels Normal

Interview: Alexandra Juhasz on Please Hold

If You Build It

Interview: Peter Tscherkassky

The Film Comment Podcast: Cinema of the Rice Cooker

Il Cinema Ritrovato 2025: Hot Bologna Nights

Interview: John Smith on Being John Smith

Structural Integrity

From Cell to Screenplay: Finding My Voice Behind Bars

The Film Comment Podcast: Summer New Releases

Modern Love

Animal Magnetism

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

Cannes 2025: Lamming It

Interview: Christian Petzold on Mirrors No. 3

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

Interview: Spike Lee on Highest 2 Lowest

Impossible Reality

Interview: Jafar Panahi on It Was Just an Accident

Cannes 2025: Every Grain of Sand

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