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Sing Your Life: Marnie at the Met

Red alert: the story of trauma famously portrayed in Hitchcock’s film now takes flight as an opera
Read Michael Koresky's feature

Film of the Week: They Shall Not Grow Old

Digital poppies: Peter Jackson's controversial film project attempts to revive the voices of World War I through colorization and other effects
Read Jonathan Romney’s column

Interview: Margarethe von Trotta

Leading the way: the German filmmaker discusses her new documentary Searching for Ingmar Bergman, now opening soon
Read Nicolas Rapold's interview

The Film Comment Podcast: NYFF56 Festival Wrap

Galore: our critics talk about the highlights and, yes, the themes of the recently concluded New York Film Festival, including The Favourite and Orson Welles's The Other Side of the Wind
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News

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: Life and Nothing More

By Amy Taubin
(Antonio Méndez Esparza, Spain/USA, CFI Releasing, Opening October 24)

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 Festival Wrap

By Nicolas Rapold
Galore: our critics talk about the highlights and, yes, the themes of the recently concluded New York Film Festival, including The Favourite and Orson Welles's The Other Side of the Wind

Features

Sing Your Life: Marnie at the Met

By Michael Koresky
Red alert: the story of trauma famously portrayed in Hitchcock’s film now takes flight as an opera

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 Canterville Ghost

By Sheila O'Malley
Speaking of spooky: Charles Laughton excels in a superior adaptation of an Oscar Wilde yarn, American style

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)