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Structural Integrity

Circuit cities: the Mumbai-based collaborative art studio CAMP experiments with media technology in playful and political ways
Read Swagato Chakravorty’s Essay

The Film Comment Podcast: Summer New Releases

Start your engines: critics Alana Pockros and Adam Nayman join to discuss F1, Materialists, 28 Years Later, and more
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From Cell to Screenplay: Finding My Voice Behind Bars

New scene: the incarcerated journalist shares her painstaking journey to teach herself screenwriting in prison
Read Kwaneta Harris’s Essay

Animal Magnetism

By Erika Balsom
Bull in the heather: Albert Serra‘s challenging and visceral portrait of a matador is one of the year’s best films

The Film Comment Podcast: GriGris with Malcolm Harris and Anselm Kizza-Besigye

Fire escapes: the acclaimed author joins to discuss Mahamat-Saleh Haroun’s 2013 thriller, cinematic portrayals of the climate crisis, and more

Modern Love

By Guy Lodge
Walks beside me: an inclusive, elastic understanding of modern queer lives emerges across Dag Johan Haugerud’s Sex/Dreams/Love trilogy

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Country Living

By Olivia Crough
This whole world: the films of Pierre Creton model a communal life removed from urban capitalism, nationalism, and traditional family structures

Festivals

Tribeca 2025: Bigger Than the Screen

By Amy Taubin
Heroes and villains: the festival largely made good on its promise to show socially relevant works from independent and early-career filmmakers

Interviews

Interview: Alanis Obomsawin on The Children Have to Hear Another Story

By Caroline Monnet
Children‘s song: the 92-year-old filmmaker, visual artist, musician, and activist reflects on her influential body of work, currently the subject of a major retrospective at MoMA PS1

Podcast

The Film Comment Podcast: Familiar Touch with Kathleen Chalfant and Molly Haskell

By Film Comment
Recipe for living: the stalwart actor talks to the legendary film critic about her latest role as an octogenarian settling into a nursing home

Festivals

Kampung Film Festival 2025: Oceanic Feeling

By Sasha Han
Here today: a new festival defiantly reclaims a lost history, bringing contemporary and classic Cambodian cinema to a local audience

Festivals

Cannes 2025: Lamming It

By Devika Girish
End of the road: new films by Kelly Reichardt, Kleber Mendonça Filho, Julia Ducournau, and Sergei Loznitsa explore the politics of time