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Film of the Week: “I Do Not Care If We Go Down in History as Barbarians”

Memory loss: densely allusive, Radu Jude's latest contends with the ways in which recreating the past can obscure history's meaning
Read Jonathan Romney’s review

Cinema With a Roof Over its Head

In this 1999 essay, Kent Jones makes a case for Hou Hsiao-hsien's “difficult” films of the ’90s
Read Kent Jones's Essay

The Film Comment Podcast: New Releases 2

Seeing red: guests Emily Yoshida and Devika Girish discuss The Farewell, Rojo, Ray & Liz, and The Art of Self-Defense
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Interview: Gu Xiaogang

The first-time filmmaker’s Dwelling in the Fuchun Mountains has a wide scope, yet feels minutely observed
Read Eric Hynes's Interview

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Present Tense

Present Tense: What Happened Was…

By Sheila O'Malley
Alone together: Tom Noonan’s two-hander is an unblinking look at the havoc loneliness can wreak on humans

Festivals

Festivals: Il Cinema Ritrovato

By Giovanni Vimercati
Whose canon?: the festival once again brought to light forgotten, underrated, vanished, or poetically exiled films

Queer & Now & Then

Queer and Now and Then: 2002

By Michael Koresky
Mise en abyme: the exhilaration of Femme Fatale comes from its constant, absolute awareness of sex and identity as performances

The Big Screen

The Big Screen: The Farewell

By Soraya Nadia McDonald
Lulu Wang’s film leaves you marveling at sincerity, selflessness, and grace

From the Archive

Cinema With a Roof Over its Head

By Kent Jones
In this 1999 essay, Kent Jones makes a case for Hou Hsiao-hsien's “difficult” films of the ’90s

Podcast

The Film Comment Podcast: New Releases 2

By Nicolas Rapold
Seeing red: guests Emily Yoshida and Devika Girish discuss The Farewell, Rojo, Ray & Liz, and The Art of Self-Defense

From the New Issue

Lonesome Trails

By Nicolas Rapold
Quentin Tarantino’s Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood yearns for the liberating powers of storytelling and finds flickers of life in painted sunsets and broken dreams

News

News to Me: Rip Torn, Stanley Kubrick, and Alain Guiraudie

By Film Comment
Actors & auteurs: Stanley Kubrick, Juliette Binoche, and PTA as a PA

Make It Real

Interview: Gu Xiaogang

By Eric Hynes
The first-time filmmaker’s Dwelling in the Fuchun Mountains has a wide scope, yet feels minutely observed