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NYFF Interview: Louis Garrel

Three's company: the actor-filmmaker brings the playfulness of the stage to a comedy of manners and existence (and a little love)
Read Yonca Talu's interview

Queer & Now & Then: 1980

Room service: an infamous scene in The Shining points to the uncontainable forces at work in Kubrick's poised but volatile universe
Read Michael Koresky’s column

Film of the Week: Classical Period

In seminar: Ted Fendt's second feature cedes the floor to three scholars in a faithful depiction of the life of the mind
Read Jonathan Romney’s column

Deep Focus: First Man

Mooning about: Damien Chazelle gives us a nobly suffering Neil Armstrong in an outwardly nervy but fundamentally cautious account of the lunar landing
Read Michael Sragow’s column

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News to Me: The Village Voice Live, Soderbergh, Zhao

By Carlos Valladares
Institutional memory: the Village Voice lives! Plus: new films from Steven Soderbergh and Bertrand Bonello, and Wesley Morris on our cultural moment

Reviews

Review: A Star Is Born

By Michael Koresky
Evergreen: Bradley Cooper and Lady Gaga compete for the realness prize in the fourth version of the well-known Hollywood tale

Interviews

Interview: Paul Greengrass

By Nicolas Rapold
Fighting for our lives: the director of Norway terror attack docudrama 22 July expounds upon realism in dire times

Queer & Now & Then

Queer & Now & Then: 1980

By Michael Koresky
Room service: an infamous scene in The Shining points to the uncontainable forces at work in Kubrick's poised but volatile universe

Podcast

The Film Comment Podcast: NYFF56 Projections

By Nicolas Rapold
Trips to the interior: we survey the mind-expanding highlights of the experimental cinema program in the 56th New York Film Festival

Features

Excerpt: Movie Culture in the Age of Reagan: The Triumph of Tribalism

By J. Hoberman
Barbarians at the gate: Conan set forth a big, dumb anthem to destruction that can be heard to this day

Imogen Sara Smith

Ghosts and Replicas: Bisbee ’17 and Museo

By Imogen Sara Smith
Once more with feeling: one hybrid film and one fiction film look at the reenactment and preservation of contentious pasts

TCM Diary

TCM Diary: The Wild Boys of Wellman

By Justin Stewart
The long way home: William A. Wellman shows his mettle with the young hobo heroes of Wild Boys of the Road

Festivals

NYFF Interview: Louis Garrel

By Yonca Talu
Three's company: the actor-filmmaker brings the playfulness of the stage to a comedy of manners and existence (and a little love)