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Festivals: Venice 2017

Truman shows: the Fifties were a useful touchstone in this year’s crop of studio films on the Lido
Read Nicolas Rapold’s article

Film of the Week: The Future Perfect

Live translation: Nele Wohlatz’s meditation on immigration and language is comedic and self-reflexive
Read Jonathan Romney’s column

The Film Comment Podcast: Live from TIFF ’17

Northern lights: six critics discuss Zama, mother!, Downsizing, and much more at this year’s Toronto International Film Festival
Listen to the conversation

Deep Focus: mother!

Open house: Darren Aronofsky’s attempts at a mystical thriller flounder
Read Michael Sragow’s column

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Interviews

Venice Interview: Véréna Paravel and Lucien Castaing-Taylor

By Nicolas Rapold
Dinner conversation: the directors of the ground-breaking Leviathan have a prolonged audience with Japanese cannibal Issei Sagawa (and his brother)

Podcast

The Film Comment Podcast: Mudbound

By Film Comment
The founders of civilization: Dee Rees’s American epic examines the social fabric of the Jim Crow south

Festivals

Festivals: Venice 2017

By Nicolas Rapold
Truman shows: the Fifties were a useful touchstone in this year’s crop of studio films on the Lido

Farran Smith Nehme

The Last Man on Earth (1924) & It’s Great to Be Alive (1933)

By Farran Smith Nehme
Single women run the world in a silent film fantasy and its musical remake

Cinema ’67 Revisited

Cinema ’67 Revisited: The Battle of Algiers

By Mark Harris
Ripped from the headlines: Gillo Pontecorvo’s on-the-ground view of colonial revolt was accused of being a textbook for American radicals

Features

This Is Us

By Ashley Clark
In Mudbound, an ambitious epic about racial realities in the American South during the World war II era, Dee Rees reminds us that we create the times in which we live

Deep Focus

Deep Focus: mother!

By Michael Sragow
Open house: Darren Aronofsky’s attempts at a mystical thriller flounder

Reviews

Review: Ex Libris: The New York Public Library

By Nicolas Rapold
(Director: Frederick Wiseman, Country/Distributor: USA, Zipporah Films, Opening: September 13)

TCM Diary

TCM Diary: Ruby Gentry

By Robert Horton
Wayward woman: King Vidor’s 1952 tale of small town politics is contradictory but enduringly magnetic