Flying high: the last few days of Cannes contained many of this year’s high points, including Kelly Reichardt’s Showing Up, Albert Serra’s Pacifiction, and David Cronenberg’s Crimes of the Future
By Devika Girish Bankshot: Adam Sandler’s latest features some surprising performances from a host of professional ballplayers and another endearing turn from the Sandman himself
The Film Comment Podcast: Top Gun: Maverick and Nationalist Cinema and
There goes my hero: Ed Halter and Blair McClendon join to unpack the “rich text” that is Tom Cruise’s world-dominating Top Gun: Maverick
By Genevieve Yue Wildlife: the Ohio-based artists discuss how their “Feral Domestic" trilogy questions the porous boundaries between homelife and the outside world
Flaming creatures: from crumbling reels of a Douglas Sirk classic to a gloriously preserved print of Cluny Brown, this year’s fest offered many delights for the purist filmgoer
Past perfect: the director and star of one of 2021’s most anticipated movies discuss their elliptical exploration alienation and the specters of history
With Olivier Assaya’s Irma Vep deconstructing the very idea of the serial, revisit Richard Roud’s 1976 essay on Louis Feuillade, the man behind the original Les Vampires
Time and again: in an excerpt from his new monograph, Tale of Cinema, Dennis Lim grapples with the conceptual challenges of both writing about and programming the films of Hong Sangsoo
Against interpretation: with its maze-like narrative and nightmare-inducing imagery, David Lynch’s epic Inland Empire is so much more than a puzzle to be solved
