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Interview: László Nemes

Eve of destruction: the Oscar-winning director of Son of Saul broaches the underworld and upper crust of prewar Budapest in the audacious Sunset
Read Tina Poglajen's interview

Festivals: Wavelengths at TIFF

Furiously alive: the Toronto festival’s experimental film section featured Roberto Minervini, Helen Wittmann, Jodie Mack, and more to energizing effect
Read Nellie Killian's dispatch

The Film Comment Podcast: Ethan Hawke

Heart of the country: the actor-director-writer in conversation with Nick Pinkerton at our latest Free Talk at the Film Society of Lincoln Center
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Deep Focus: The Sisters Brothers

Wild frontiers: Jacques Audiard goes West with John C. Reilly and Joaquin Phoenix and brings back gold
Read Michael Sragow’s column

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News to Me: Jerry Lewis’s “Home Movies,” Kasi Lemmons, Annette Michelson

By Carlos Valladares
The home office: the comedy legend’s full-fledged films with Dean, Janet Leigh, and Tony Curtis, plus the latest on Marielle Heller and Kasi Lemmons

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Film of the Week: Mandy

By Jonathan Romney
Smash the looking-glass: Panos Cosmatos's enjoyably gnarly sub-metal freak-out very much wants you to know how strange it is

Interviews

Interview: Bai Xue

By Aliza Ma
Love and theft: a breathtaking debut feature by a Chinese filmmaker follows a teenage girl down the road of corruption

Queer & Now & Then

Queer & Now & Then: 1960

By Michael Koresky
Homme fatale: the surpassing beauty of Alain Delon in Purple Noon is a lethal weapon that the actor wields without mercy

Podcast

The Film Comment Podcast: Ethan Hawke

By Nicolas Rapold
Heart of the country: the actor-director-writer in conversation with Nick Pinkerton at our latest Free Talk at the Film Society of Lincoln Center

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Intimations of Mortality

By Nicolas Rapold
Monrovia, Indiana, Frederick Wiseman’s postcard from the Midwest, detects the lengthening shadows beyond the all-American sunshine

Imogen Sara Smith

Ghosts and Replicas: Bisbee ’17 and Museo

By Imogen Sara Smith
Once more with feeling: one hybrid film and one fiction film look at the reenactment and preservation of contentious pasts

TCM Diary

TCM Diary: The Wild Boys of Wellman

By Justin Stewart
The long way home: William A. Wellman shows his mettle with the young hobo heroes of Wild Boys of the Road

Festivals

Interview: László Nemes

By Tina Poglajen
Eve of destruction: the Oscar-winning director of Son of Saul broaches the underworld and upper crust of prewar Budapest in the audacious Sunset