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Interview: Christian Petzold

Regrettably timeless: the filmmaker’s latest, Transit, shows the stark parallels between the Holocaust and the European refugee crisis
Read Jordan Cronk's interview

Festivals: Busan 2018

Back in the game: a mighty Asian film festival struggles with issues of identity, both on-screen and behind the scenes
Read April Wolfe's report

The Film Comment Podcast: The Rep Report #1

Theatergoers: we’re pleased to present the first in a recurring podcast series in which special guests survey both repertory theater gems and new releases
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Interview: Zoe Kazan

O, pioneer: the actor talks about starring in Joel and Ethan Coen's The Ballad of Buster Scruggs and elucidates the nuances of their tragicomic style
Read Nicolas Rapold's interview

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Podcast

The Film Comment Podcast: The Rep Report #1

By Nicolas Rapold
Theatergoers: we’re pleased to present the first in a recurring podcast series in which special guests survey both repertory theater gems and new releases

Reviews

Short Take: Widows

By Tatiana Craine
(Steve McQueen, UK/USA, 20th Century Fox, Opening November 16)

Interviews

Directions: Claude Lanzmann

By Eric Hynes
The late filmmaker resisted reducing the totality of experience, or of cinema

Queer & Now & Then

Queer & Now & Then: 1978

By Michael Koresky
On the verge: Chantal Akerman’s Les Rendez-vous d’Anna locates sexual fluidity in an otherwise stultifying modern world

Phantom Light

Blues for the Iron Curtain: Cold War and Red Boogie

By Imogen Sara Smith
Chill wind blows: Pawel Pawlikowski's latest film shares points of romantic and musical comparison with a film by Karpo Godina

Features

Love and Theft

By Aliza Ma
Hirokazu Kore-eda’s Palme d’Or-winner Shoplifters unsettles the family drama genre by focusing on society’s forgotten souls

TCM Diary

TCM Diary: Glenda Farrell

By Justin Stewart
Fast track: the actress brought a thoughtful swing to the genre-hopping newspaper milieu of Hi, Nellie!

News

News to Me: FilmStruck, Kelly Reichardt, Martin Scorsese, Bong Joon-ho

By Nicolas Rapold
Merging with infinity: the departure of a beloved streaming service, plus new films by Kelly Reichardt and more

Festivals

Festivals: Busan 2018

By April Wolfe
Back in the game: a mighty Asian film festival struggles with issues of identity, both on-screen and behind the scenes