Long exposures: in the Brazilian city of Belo Horizonte, abandoned cinemas have become parking lots and gyms—but they also live on in the collective sensorial memory

Film Comment Magazine

20.11.2024

The Film Comment Podcast: Julianne Moore on The Room Next Door

Artificial heart: the great American actress discusses her role in the latest from Pedro Almodóvar, which co-stars Tilda Swinton as a dying woman who makes a daring request of an old friend, played brilliantly by Moore

Film Comment Magazine

19.11.2024

Come to My Window

Smooth surface: we‘re so often captivated by Zemeckis’s technical wizardry that we fail to notice how solipsistic his imagination actually is

Film Comment Magazine

19.11.2024

How to Do Things with Words

Translation games: Hong Sangsoo's A Traveler's Needs explores how communication across languages can be both obfuscating and revelatory

Film Comment Magazine

13.11.2024

Interview: Bernard Eisenschitz on Robert Kramer

Milestones: a new book republishes a free-flowing conversation between the noted French critic and the American filmmaker conducted in the late ’90s

Film Comment Magazine

13.11.2024

Secondhand Time

Time and time again: recent works by Elisabeth Subrin and Zia Anger join a lineage of women’s films that invite us to witness failures and refusal, imbuing them with significance through re-performance

Film Comment Magazine

13.11.2024

The Film Comment Podcast: Payal Kapadia and Miguel Gomes

Long journeys: the two auteurs discuss their latest films, which are both city symphonies that center love stories within broader political contexts and are driven by the pulsings of female desire

Film Comment Magazine

13.11.2024

Ongoing Revolutionary Process

Scenes from the class struggle: a new repertory series at MoMA asks its viewers to connect Portugal’s political revolution to a longer aesthetic tradition dedicated to the constant renegotiation of the relationship between documentary and fiction

Film Comment Magazine

07.11.2024

The Film Comment Podcast: The Films of Robert Kramer

Starting places: critics Erika Balsom and Benjamin Crais join to discuss the undersung filmmaker’s richly heterogenous, and endlessly fascinating, body of work

Film Comment Magazine

07.11.2024

The Meg

The great debate: Francis Ford Coppola's long-gestating passion project is both deeply personal and strangely unmoving

Film Comment Magazine

07.11.2024

You’re Projecting #1

Help us help you: in the first entry of our new advice column, critics Nathan Lee and Genevieve Yue offer helping hands to some cinephiles in need

Film Comment Magazine

07.11.2024

Sounds of Freedom

The long march: Johan Grimonprez's Soundtrack to a Coup D'Etat is a grim, exciting history lesson that announces itself with percussive fanfare

Film Comment Magazine

23.10.2024

Life’s a Beach

Into the limelight: In settings both grim and glamorous, Sean Baker's Anora repeatedly shows how despair is the bedrock for the false-front distractions of American kitsch

Film Comment Magazine

22.10.2024

Premortem and Postmortem

Body doubles: David Cronenberg's The Shrouds and Pedro Almodóvar's The Room Next Door find both auteurs still playing around the permutations of the flesh, but in a decidedly retrospective mood

Film Comment Magazine

22.10.2024

Life’s a Beach

Into the limelight: In settings both grim and glamorous, Sean Baker's Anora repeatedly shows how despair is the bedrock for the false-front distractions of American kitsch

Film Comment Magazine

19.10.2024

Strange Brews

Who shall I say is calling? Two NYFF62 standouts, Philippe Lesage’s Who by Fire and Nicolás Pereda’s Lázaro at Night, masterfully play with the slippage between the real and the fictional

Film Comment Magazine

19.10.2024

Love’s Labors

The past is present: the 2024 NYFF Revivals section featured films about labor and dreams, including Zeinabu irene Davis’s Compensation, John Hanson and Rob Nilsson’s Northern Lights, and Robert Bresson’s Four Nights of a Dreamer.

Film Comment Magazine

17.10.2024

Interview: Guillaume Cailleau and Ben Russell on DIRECT ACTION

Everybody together: the two filmmakers discuss the challenges of producing a multifaceted portrait of an anarchist Zone to Defend community in rural France

Film Comment Magazine

17.10.2024

The Film Comment Podcast: NYFF62 Festival Report

That's a wrap: critics Bilge Ebiri and Lovia Gyarkye join Film Comment editors Devika Girish and Clinton Krute for a spirited wrap-up analysis of the highlights and lowlights from this year's lineup

Film Comment Magazine

17.10.2024

Interview: Mike Leigh on Hard Truths

Answering the call: the acclaimed British filmmaker speaks about his latest feature, his first in six years, which reunites him with Marianne Jean-Baptiste

Film Comment Magazine

17.10.2024

Tropical Maladies

Calling up the past: Madeleine Hunt-Ehrlich's The Ballad of Suzanne Césaire and Mati Diop's Dahomey both probe the tensions of transmitting memory

Film Comment Magazine

10.10.2024

The Film Comment Podcast: Collective Protagonists

Bread and roses: the two directorial pairs behind Northern Lights (1978) and Union (2024) discuss the practical, formal, and political considerations of making films about people power

Film Comment Magazine

08.10.2024

Scratching the Surface

Close reading: Matías Piñeiro’s You Burn Me and Jem Cohen's Little, Big, and Far are both richly attuned to the surfaces of things

Film Comment Magazine

08.10.2024

Interview: Jia Zhangke on Caught by the Tides

Time passes slowly: the Chinese filmmaker discusses his latest, which makes a collage out of documentary-style footage shot during the making of his films over the last twenty years

Film Comment Magazine

03.10.2024

It Takes a Village

Town limits: Athina Rachel Tsangari's Harvest and Rungano Nyoni’s On Becoming a Guinea Fowl both explore the tender, vexing paradoxes of home

Film Comment Magazine

03.10.2024

Inspired: Paul Schrader on Oh, Canada

Up north: the master filmmaker discusses how a lingering case of COVID-19 and a novel by his late friend gave rise to his newest feature

Film Comment Magazine

01.10.2024

Toward an Architecture

If you build it: a pervading sense of mourning is the most coherent thing about Brady Corbet's The Brutalist, an otherwise largely unfocused and self-important movie

Film Comment Magazine

01.10.2024

Interview: RaMell Ross on Nickel Boys

Watch the stars: the photographer and filmmaker discusses his new adaptation of Colson Whitehead's novel, the film’s compelling use of first-person point of view, and his interest in capturing what he calls “adjacent images”

Film Comment Magazine

25.09.2024

The Film Comment Podcast: The Films of Christopher Harris

In a silent way: Christopher Harris joins to discuss the origins of his filmmaking in his youthful ambition to be musician, his interest in stillness and silence as structuring concepts, and why his work is always as fun as it is challenging and erudite

Film Comment Magazine

24.09.2024

Love and Death: TIFF 2024

Candid camera: this year's festival offered an array of welcome surprises, including highlights like Mike Leigh's Hard Truths, Luca Guadagnino’s Queer, Nicolás Pereda Lázaro at Night, and more

Film Comment Magazine

24.09.2024

Bad Blood

Trick mirror: The Substance seems inescapably in thrall to the seductive, glossy surfaces of Hollywood beauty standards that it is supposedly skewering

Film Comment Magazine

17.09.2024

Interview: Alain Guiraudie on Misericordia

Midnight confessions: the novelist and filmmaker discusses his new noir comedy, which follows a young man who returns to his hometown in the French countryside and finds himself embroiled in an unpredictable (and increasingly dangerous) game of lust

Film Comment Magazine

17.09.2024

The Built Environment: Venice 2024

Debris slide: highlights from this year's edition included Brady Corbet's sweeping historical drama The Brutalist, Singaporean director Yeo Siew Hua's surveillance thriller Stranger Eyes, and Alex Ross Perry's prismatic portrait of the iconic ’90s band Pavement

Film Comment Magazine

13.09.2024

The Film Comment Podcast: Toronto 2024 #4

Bells ring: for our final Podcast from TIFF 2024, David Schwartz, Saffron Maeve, and Robert Daniels join to discuss shorts in the Wavelenghts program, as well as features from Muhammed Hamdy, Wang Bing, and Luca Guadagnino

Film Comment Magazine

12.09.2024

The Film Comment Podcast: Toronto 2024 #3

Off the map: critics Adam Nayman and Beatrice Loayza join to discuss Jessica Sarah Rinland’s Collective Monologue, Athina Rachel Tsangari’s Harvest, Joshua Oppenheimer’s The End, and more

Film Comment Magazine

11.09.2024

The Film Comment Podcast: Toronto 2024 #2

Bitter pills: Madeline Whittle and Mark Ash join to discuss Mike Leigh's Hard Truths, Kiyoshi Kurosawa's Cloud, Pedro Almodóvar's The Room Next Door, and more

Film Comment Magazine

10.09.2024

The Film Comment Podcast: Toronto 2024 #1

Dig in: critics Mark Asch and David Schwartz join to kick of our TIFF 2024 coverage, discussing Brady Corbet's The Brutalist, Gia Coppola's The Last Showgirl, Raoul Peck's Ernest Cole: Lost and Found, and more

Film Comment Magazine

10.09.2024

A Key for Every Lock

How to save a theater: members of the La Clef Revival collective share key insights from their successful campaign to reopen their beloved Parisian cinema

Film Comment Magazine

10.09.2024

Views From Home

Collective horizons: a new series at Anthology Film Archives showcases the multifaceted work of Palestinian filmmakers and sisters Emily and Annemarie Jacir

Film Comment Magazine

08.09.2024

The Film Comment Podcast: The Rebel’s Cinema—Frantz Fanon on Screen #4

Present pasts: for the final episode of our Fanon on Screen series, filmmaker and artist Madeleine Hunt-Ehrlich and writer Adam Shatz discuss Sarah Maldoror’s Monangambeee and Assia Djebar’s The Zerda and the Songs of Forgetting

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Print Out: A City’s History, Told by its Cinemas

The Film Comment Podcast: Julianne Moore on The Room Next Door

Come to My Window

How to Do Things with Words

Interview: Bernard Eisenschitz on Robert Kramer

Secondhand Time

The Film Comment Podcast: Payal Kapadia and Miguel Gomes

Ongoing Revolutionary Process

The Film Comment Podcast: The Films of Robert Kramer

The Meg

You’re Projecting #1

Sounds of Freedom

Life’s a Beach

Premortem and Postmortem

Life’s a Beach

Strange Brews

Love’s Labors

Interview: Guillaume Cailleau and Ben Russell on DIRECT ACTION

The Film Comment Podcast: NYFF62 Festival Report

Interview: Mike Leigh on Hard Truths

Tropical Maladies

The Film Comment Podcast: Collective Protagonists

Scratching the Surface

Interview: Jia Zhangke on Caught by the Tides

It Takes a Village

Inspired: Paul Schrader on Oh, Canada

Toward an Architecture

Interview: RaMell Ross on Nickel Boys

The Film Comment Podcast: The Films of Christopher Harris

Love and Death: TIFF 2024

Bad Blood

Interview: Alain Guiraudie on Misericordia

The Built Environment: Venice 2024

The Film Comment Podcast: Toronto 2024 #4

The Film Comment Podcast: Toronto 2024 #3

The Film Comment Podcast: Toronto 2024 #2

The Film Comment Podcast: Toronto 2024 #1

A Key for Every Lock

Views From Home

The Film Comment Podcast: The Rebel’s Cinema—Frantz Fanon on Screen #4

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