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The Film Comment Podcast: Amazing Grace and the Concert Film

Up close and personal: we talk about Aretha Franklin's Amazing Grace and the art of the concert film
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Interview: Helena Třeštíková

The stories we tell: the Czech documentary filmmaker on creating narratives out of daily life, her recent Doomed Beauty, and how her work is (or is not) feminist.
Read Ela Bittencourt's interview

TCM Diary: Butcher, Baker, Nightmare Maker

Illegal guardian: Susan Tyrrell plays an uncomfortably possessive aunt in a 1981 cocktail of familial perversity and slasher thrills
Read Justin Stewart’s article

Queer & Now & Then: 1956

A regular fella: Vincente Minnelli's Tea and Sympathy questions definitions of masculinity in what the filmmaker called "the first homosexual picture"
Read Michael Koresky’s column

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The Film Comment Podcast: Amazing Grace and the Concert Film

By Nicolas Rapold
Up close and personal: we talk about Aretha Franklin's Amazing Grace and the art of the concert film

Interviews

Interview: Helena Třeštíková

By Ela Bittencourt
The stories we tell: the Czech documentary filmmaker on creating narratives out of daily life, her recent Doomed Beauty, and how her work is (or is not) feminist.

Reviews

Film of the Week: Glass

By Jonathan Romney
All too superhuman: M. Night Shyamalan has nerve choosing Glass as the title for a film so unashamedly non-transparent

Phantom Light

Capturing Chaos: Capernaum and the Children of Neorealism

By Imogen Sara Smith
Street scenes: where does Nadine Labaki's new film about two bereft children fit into the legacy of Neorealism?

Queer & Now & Then

Queer & Now & Then: 1956

By Michael Koresky
A regular fella: Vincente Minnelli's Tea and Sympathy questions definitions of masculinity in what the filmmaker called "the first homosexual picture"

Features

A Greater Los Angeles: Gabriel Navarro, Cultural Bridge-Builder

By Laura Isabel Serna and Colin Gunckel
New Hollywood: Mexican-born critic and playwright Gabriel Navarro brought together a rich world of uniquely Mexican-American culture in the first decades of the 20th century

TCM Diary

TCM Diary: Butcher, Baker, Nightmare Maker

By Justin Stewart
Illegal guardian: Susan Tyrrell plays an uncomfortably possessive aunt in a 1981 cocktail of familial perversity and slasher thrills

News

Film Comment Selects 2019 Lineup Announced

By Nicolas Rapold
World of cinema: the latest edition of the magazine's regular showcase features films by Steven Soderbergh, Laszlo Nemes, Jerry Schatzberg, and more

From the Archive

Interview: Jean-Luc Godard

By Gavin Smith
Text and image: In this 1996 interview, the filmmaker rambles with purpose through his filmography. Read more on JLG's forthcoming The Image Book in the new issue.