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Interview: Julia Ducournau on Alpha

Unconditional loves: the French director discusses her latest, a surreal and moving coming-of-age story that reimagines the AIDS crisis
Read Devika Girish’s essay

The Film Comment Podcast: The Films of Peter Watkins

Living history: critic J. Hoberman joins to discuss the late British director’s utterly unique and invigoratingly political cinema
Listen to the conversation

Woman on the Verge

Screentime: Radu Jude‘s Kontinental ‘25 adapts its neorealist influences to our media-addled, morally bankrupt times
Read Mark Asch‘s essay

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