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What Could Go Wrong?

By Imogen Sara Smith
May 1, 2020
With the miraculous About Endlessness, the living pictures of Roy Andersson heave a melancholy sigh over the human condition

I Think We’re Alone Now

By Devika Girish
May 1, 2020
With no theater to step into, Devika Girish reflects on the options for connecting with others and with cinema

By Any Means Necessary: Med Hondo

By Aboubakar Sanogo
May 1, 2020
A dazzling voice for Africa and the diaspora, filmmaker Med Hondo threw down fearless, prickly experiments that banish colonial rot

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The Film Comment Podcast: At Home #16

Into the wild: Devika Girish and Clinton Krute join to discuss Salesman, The Matrix, Hong Sangsoo, and a host of animal-themed selections
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Present Tense: Citizens Band

Breaker breaker: Jonathan Demme’s 1977 CB-radio comedy spoke to the present moment in all kinds of unexpected ways
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Queer & Now & Then: 1964

Primal scream: Flaming Creatures, Jack Smith’s spectacle of intense queer desire, is one of the most beautiful of all experimental films
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Present Tense

Present Tense: Citizens Band

By Sheila O'Malley
Breaker breaker: Jonathan Demme’s 1977 CB-radio comedy spoke to the present moment in all kinds of unexpected ways

Interviews

Interview: Andrew Litvack

By Manu Yáñez Murillo
More than words: the subtitler of Godard, Assayas, and others talks about the process in this accompaniment to our May-June 2020 Art and Craft article

Queer & Now & Then

Queer & Now & Then: 1964

By Michael Koresky
Primal scream: Flaming Creatures, Jack Smith’s spectacle of intense queer desire, is one of the most beautiful of all experimental films

Podcast

The Film Comment Podcast: At Home #16

By Nicolas Rapold
Into the wild: Devika Girish and Clinton Krute join to discuss Salesman, The Matrix, Hong Sangsoo, and a host of animal-themed selections

Film of the Week

Film of the Week: A White, White Day

By Jonathan Romney
Frozen warnings: Hlynur Pálmason’s Icelandic drama is a stark psychological thriller that unpicks its hero’s troubled soul with forensic coolness

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The Pre-Show: Notes

By Film Comment

Feeling Seen

Feeling Seen: Song of the Exile

By Phoebe Chen
Family ties: Ann Hui’s 1990 family drama is striking in the way it parcels out knowledge of cultural history as a gradual, lived revelation

TCM Diary

TCM Diary: Marie: A True Story and A World Apart

By Michael Sragow
Bursting bubbles: Sissy Spacek and Barbara Hershey star in two exemplary ’80s films about resourceful women standing up for their beliefs

From the Archive

Interview: Bruce Baillie

By Film Comment
The avant-garde director, who passed away last week at the age of 88, discusses life, death, and filmmaking in this 1971 interview