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Interview: Todd Haynes, Ed Lachman, and Mark Friedberg

Heroic trio: Wonderstruck’s director, cinematographer, and art director discuss the inspirations for re-imagining different eras of New York
Read Michael Koresky’s interview

Festivals: Toronto 2017

Crowd control: soaking up the reactions to new films by Louis CK, Greta Gerwig, and James Franco in the theater where rabid fans and press collide
Read Nicolas Rapold’s article

Interview: Vitaly Mansky

Annexation anxiety: the director of Close Relations and Under the Sun opens up about life during dictatorships
Read Eric Hynes’s interview

Deep Focus: Lucky

Being and nothingness: Harry Dean Stanton’s final performance is a warm spiritual quest that reflects his strengths
Read Michael Sragow’s column

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Podcast

The Film Comment Podcast: Twin Peaks: The Return

By Film Comment
TV from another place: a discussion of David Lynch’s 18-hour opus

Festivals

Interview: Todd Haynes, Ed Lachman, and Mark Friedberg

By Michael Koresky
Heroic trio: Wonderstruck’s director, cinematographer, and art director discuss the inspirations for re-imagining different eras of New York

Farran Smith Nehme

The Last Man on Earth (1924) & It’s Great to Be Alive (1933)

By Farran Smith Nehme
Single women run the world in a silent film fantasy and its musical remake

Cinema ’67 Revisited

Cinema ’67 Revisited: The Battle of Algiers

By Mark Harris
Ripped from the headlines: Gillo Pontecorvo’s on-the-ground view of colonial revolt was accused of being a textbook for American radicals

Features

This Is Us

By Ashley Clark
In Mudbound, an ambitious epic about racial realities in the American South during the World war II era, Dee Rees reminds us that we create the times in which we live

Deep Focus

Deep Focus: Lucky

By Michael Sragow
Being and nothingness: Harry Dean Stanton’s final performance is a warm spiritual quest that reflects his strengths

Reviews

Review: Ex Libris: The New York Public Library

By Nicolas Rapold
(Director: Frederick Wiseman, Country/Distributor: USA, Zipporah Films, Opening: September 13)

TCM Diary

TCM Diary: Ruby Gentry

By Robert Horton
Wayward woman: King Vidor’s 1952 tale of small town politics is contradictory but enduringly magnetic

Interviews

Interview: Todd Haynes, Ed Lachman, and Mark Friedberg

By Michael Koresky
Heroic trio: Wonderstruck’s director, cinematographer, and art director discuss the inspirations for re-imagining different eras of New York