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Readers’ Poll 2018

Meeting of minds: Film Comment readers rank and comment on the best films of 2018
Read the results

News to Me: Nelly Kaplan, Jean Cocteau, and Archives Aplenty

Party on: Penelope Spheeris, Christophe Honoré, and a short from Claire Denis and Olafur Eliasson
Read our weekly curated roundup

The Film Comment Podcast: László Nemes

Night comes in: the director of Sunset on his vision of a crumbling world order in pre-World War I Budapest
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Law of the Land

In Ash Is Purest White, in theaters March 15, Jia Zhangke charts how one woman survives and thrives on the criminal margins
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Phantom Light

Magic Touch: The Eyes of Orson Welles and The Mystery of Picasso

By Imogen Sara Smith
Looking and seeing: two films about genius, perception, and visual communication

The Big Screen

The Big Screen: Ash Is Purest White

By Abby Sun
Jia Zhangke's latest, in theaters March 15, is a thankful return to the director's strengths

News

News to Me: Nelly Kaplan, Jean Cocteau, and Archives Aplenty

By Film Comment
Party on: Penelope Spheeris, Christophe Honoré, and a short from Claire Denis and Olafur Eliasson

Film of the Week

Film of the Week: Combat Obscura

By Jonathan Romney
Combat fatigue: Miles Lagoze’s Afghanistan documentary shows the boredom and brutality of endless war

From the Archive

Apropos de Cannes, 1963

By Nelly Kaplan
The renowned writer and filmmaker reports on a festival full of noise and fury

Podcast

The Film Comment Podcast: László Nemes

By Nicolas Rapold
Night comes in: the director of Sunset on his vision of a crumbling world order in pre-World War I Budapest

Queer & Now & Then

Queer & Now & Then: 1976

By Michael Koresky
Growing up: Terence Davies's Children's simplicity of form belies a complex network of narrative crosshatches

Readers’ Poll

Readers’ Poll 2018

By Film Comment
Meeting of minds: Film Comment readers rank and comment on the best films of 2018

Reviews

Review: The Juniper Tree

By Mark Asch
Child of nature: an Icelandic fairy tale about a young woman, played by a 20-year-old Björk, conjures a world from the Brothers Grimm