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With Borrowed Eyes: Abbas Kiarostami

In this interview from 2000, the director discusses The Wind Will Carry Us and his unique form of poetic cinema
Read David Sterritt’s Interview

News to Me: Jia Zhangke, Christian Petzold, and the moon landing

Dancing with the stars: Yvonne Rainer, Cats, and a short about the Zambian Space Academy
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Film of the Week: “I Do Not Care If We Go Down in History as Barbarians”

Memory loss: Radu Jude's latest contends with the ways in which recreating the past can obscure history's meaning
Read Jonathan Romney’s review

The Film Comment Podcast: New Releases 2

Seeing red: guests Emily Yoshida and Devika Girish discuss The Farewell, Rojo, Ray & Liz, and The Art of Self-Defense
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Film of the Week

Film of the Week: “I Do Not Care If We Go Down in History as Barbarians”

By Jonathan Romney
Memory loss: Radu Jude's latest contends with the ways in which recreating the past can obscure history's meaning

Short Takes

Short Takes: The Mountain

By Mark Asch
In his latest, Rick Alverson employs that most frontal of metaphors: the lobotomy

Podcast

The Film Comment Podcast: New Releases 2

By Nicolas Rapold
Seeing red: guests Emily Yoshida and Devika Girish discuss The Farewell, Rojo, Ray & Liz, and The Art of Self-Defense

From the Archive

With Borrowed Eyes: Abbas Kiarostami

By David Sterritt
In this interview from 2000, the director discusses The Wind Will Carry Us and his unique form of poetic cinema

From the New Issue

Lonesome Trails

By Nicolas Rapold
Quentin Tarantino’s Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood yearns for the liberating powers of storytelling and finds flickers of life in painted sunsets and broken dreams

Queer & Now & Then

Queer and Now and Then: 2002

By Michael Koresky
Mise en abyme: the exhilaration of Femme Fatale comes from its constant, absolute awareness of sex and identity as performances

The Big Screen

The Big Screen: The Farewell

By Soraya Nadia McDonald
Lulu Wang’s film leaves you marveling at sincerity, selflessness, and grace

News

News to Me: Jia Zhangke, Christian Petzold, and the moon landing

By Film Comment
Dancing with the stars: Yvonne Rainer, Cats, and a short about the Zambian Space Academy

Make It Real

Interview: Gu Xiaogang

By Eric Hynes
The first-time filmmaker’s Dwelling in the Fuchun Mountains has a wide scope, yet feels minutely observed