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Film of the Week: Widows

Role reversal: Steve McQueen goes mainstream for a slick, socially conscious thriller with a great cast—but which strains plausibility
Read Jonathan Romney’s column

The Film Comment Podcast: Ida Lupino

Dark tales: Ida Lupino pulled no punches in her one-of-a-kind directorial career, the subject of a new retrospective
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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

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: Ida Lupino

By Nicolas Rapold
Dark tales: Ida Lupino pulled no punches in her one-of-a-kind directorial career, the subject of a new retrospective

Reviews

Film of the Week: Widows

By Jonathan Romney
Role reversal: Steve McQueen goes mainstream for a slick, socially conscious thriller with a great cast—but which strains plausibility

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

Film Comment Presents Free Nationwide Screenings of Black Panther with Ryan Coogler Q&A

By Film Comment
Our March-April cover movie will return to the big screen with free screenings at nonprofit art house theaters nationwide on Tuesday, November 27.

Festivals

Festivals: Doclisboa 2018

By Ela Bittencourt
The center holds: the annual documentary film festival in Portugal presented experimental works that engaged directly with our real world