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The Food Film, à la France

The French Chef: Trần Anh Hùng’s The Taste of Things, starring former off-screen lovers Juliette Binoche and Benoît Magimel, boasts all the classic elements of culinary cinema, but deploys them to culturally and narratively specific ends
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The Film Comment Podcast: Sundance 2024 #5

Deep thoughts: Monica Castillo, Robert Daniels, and Vadim Rizov join for a documentary-centric discussion of DEVO, Eno, Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat, and more
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Sundance Film Festival 2024

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Indiscreet Charms

By Brittany Rosemary Jones
Exile on main street: the movies Luis Buñuel made in Mexico, the subject of a screening series at the Museum of Modern Art, combine his avant-garde roots with the commercial demands of the Golden Age of Mexican Cinema

The Film Comment Podcast: Sundance 2024 #5

Monica Castillo, Robert Daniels, and Vadim Rizov join for a documentary-centric discussion of DEVO, Eno, Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat, and more

Sundance 2024: Reality Bites

By Devika Girish
Truth and consequences: three nonfiction titles stood out from this year’s lineup: the Richard Linklater–directed first episode of God Save Texas; War Game; and Union

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Interviews

Interview: Jane Schoenbrun on I Saw the TV Glow

By Willow Catelyn Maclay
Through the looking glass: the director of the Sundance sensation talks about making a new kind of trans cinema, recreating '90s television, and finding beauty in horror

Year-End Critics’ Poll

“I Am a Genius!”

By Guilherme Blanc
Walking on water: A selection of newly restored films make clear the continuing relevance of the work of Lorenza Mazetti, a long-unheralded artist whose influential work is finally getting its due

Features

Ordinary Magic

By Genevieve Yue
Born again: Phạm Thiên Ân’s hypnotic debut feature Inside the Yellow Cocoon Shell is a formally breathtaking meditation on faith—and a testament to cinema as a vehicle for miraculous transformation

Features

Try to Imitate Others and Fail: An Afternoon with Bresson

By Mitchell Abidor
Out of the past: in this recently unearthed interview, the master filmmaker shares his thoughts on working with actors, adapting fiction, the debatable necessity of originality, and much more

Reviews

Double Impact: Soi Cheang’s Limbo and Mad Fate

By Ryan Swen
Gut check: the latest pair of films from Soi Cheang, a Hong Kong genre master little known in the U.S., demonstrate the sleek blend of existential bleakness and technical wizardry that characterizes his cinema

Interviews

Interview: Miko Revereza on Nowhere Near

By Katie Kirkland
Home viewing: the director discusses his latest highly personal documentary, his fascination with home movies, and his decision to withdraw his film from last November’s IDFA in protest of the festival’s response to the war in Gaza