Burning down the house: Robert Daniels and Michael Blair join to discuss Ryan Coogler’s Sinners, Steven Soderbergh’s Black Bag, and Andrew Ahn’s The Wedding Banquet
Hold fast: the Guadeloupean-French filmmaker, currently the focus of a major retrospective at MoMA, never compromised on her ideological and artistic commitments
By Adam Nayman For your consideration: Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg’s new Apple TV series The Studio sets out to lampoon executive-class know-nothings at a major Hollywood production company, but does its satire actually pack a punch?
Wade out: the New York–based festival is honoring two Indian filmmakers whose works, despite their seeming hermeticism, stand in serious dialogue with the politics of their times
Talk to him: the recipient of Film at Lincoln Center’s 50th Chaplin Award reflects on his subversively queer cinema, his love for actors, and making films in times of authoritarianism
Grief stages: the Canadian auteur discusses making art to process loss, the eroticism of conspiracy theories, and why his latest is very much a Toronto film
On the lookout: critics Mark Asch and Natalia Keogan join to discuss this year’s lineup of films by emerging directors, including Familiar Touch, Mad Bills to Pay, Lost Chapters, and more
Double trouble: Barry Levinson‘s new mob movie trades on the gambit of its two Robert De Niro performances, yet fails to imbue them with any more brio than one finds in an SNL sketch
Sign up for the Film Comment Letter!
Thoughtful, original film criticism delivered straight to your inbox each week. Enter your email address below to subscribe.
