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Interview: Claire Simon

Back to school: Simon's first U.S. release The Competition opens February 22 at Metrograph in New York
Read Lauren Du Graf's interview

The Big Screen: Hotel by the River

The inertia of language: the latest from Hong, a master of small talk, draws attention to the emptiness beneath the chatter
Read Andrew Chan's review

Stronger Together

Bygone days: Joan Micklin Silver's 1977 Between the Lines opens in revival on February 22 at Quad Cinema in New York
Read Shonni Enelow's article

Film of the Week: Varda par Agnès

Mirror image: the latest from the irrepressible filmmaker isn’t exactly a self-portrait, but a set of discursive and contemplative footnotes to her work and life
Read Jonathan Romney’s column

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From the Archive

Statement

By Jonas Mekas
A beautiful insanity: A 1964 statement from the filmmaker and renaissance man on his arrest for screening Jack Smith's Flaming Creatures

Festivals

Rotterdam 2019 Dispatch

By Jordan Cronk
"I’m not a filmmaker. I just made a film": new films from José Celestino Campusano, Jang Woojin, and Romina Paula highlight the festival

News

News to Me: Charles Burnett, Agnès Varda, Paul Schrader

By James Wham
Extra, extra: Varda, Schrader, Burnett, Fritz Lang, new streaming services and much more in our weekly curated roundup

Podcast

The Film Comment Podcast: The Rep Report #5

By Nicolas Rapold
Love is in the air: a tender look at Anthology's Valentine's Day series, a Jeff Goldblum retrospective, and other choice offerings

From the New Issue

Playing Along: Leonard Rosenman (Edge of the City, 1957)

By Carlos Valladares
A master of frenetic mood, the Hollywood composer brought a dark mania to films like the 1957 urban drama Edge of the City

TCM Diary

TCM Diary: Sounder

By Sheila O'Malley
Dirt roads and green fields: remarkable performances by Paul Winfield and Cicely Tyson punctuate Martin Ritt's 1972 family classic

Queer & Now & Then

Queer & Now & Then: 1983

By Michael Koresky
Even beyond its female, queer Jewishness, there’s something about Yentl that made people uncomfortable: Streisand’s chutzpah

Film of the Week

Film of the Week: Varda par Agnès

By Jonathan Romney
Mirror image: the latest from the irrepressible filmmaker isn’t exactly a self-portrait, but a set of discursive and contemplative footnotes to her work and life

Features

Triumph of the Will

By J. Hoberman
Museum quality: Leni Riefenstahl and the aestheticization of politics