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The Film Comment Podcast: Pedro Costa on Vitalina Varela

Remain in light: the filmmaker on his latest film, quite possibly the most beautiful of 2020
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The Decade in Experimental Film

Fabric of time: an overview of a tumultuous era of moving image works
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Best Films of the Decade

Voted on by an international group of critics, programmers, and filmmakers
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Queer & Now & Then

Queer & Now & Then: 1943

By Michael Koresky
Big deal: Patsy Kelly was a brash delight whose unapologetic openness about her life would be a persistent problem with studio gatekeepers

Podcast

The Film Comment Podcast: The Decade Project #4, or, What Just Happened?

By Nicolas Rapold
The whole wide world: our panel of critics wraps their hive-mind around the films and trends of the past ten years

Film of the Week

Film of the Week: I Wish I Knew

By Jonathan Romney
Be here now: Jia Zhangke’s documentary looks back at Shanghai’s history and offers a picture of drastic, often violent change

Features

The Decade in Experimental Film

By Jordan Cronk
Fabric of time: an overview of a tumultuous era of moving image works

Deep Focus

Deep Focus: Weathering with You

By Michael Sragow
Turbulent skies: Makoto Shinkai’s sixth feature-length cartoon oozes visual lyricism and primal yearning

The Big Screen

The Big Screen: The Assistant

By Devika Girish
In her harrowing new feature, Kitty Green details the lives of low-level Hollywood workers and the webs of power and silence they’re often caught in

TCM Diary

TCM Diary: Jane Fonda in the 1960s

By Beatrice Loayza
Early warnings: at the start of the ’60s, Fonda was a paragon of the mid-century woman’s sexual and moral ambivalence

Festivals

Sundance 2020 Cheat Sheet

By Film Comment
Shock and awe: an overview of all the features at the 2020 Sundance Festival

Monthly Picks

See This: January Picks

By Film Comment
Some recent and upcoming films that we feel deserve a little extra attention—brought to you by Warby Parker