Memory lane: the visionary filmmaker, painter, and musician discusses his remarkable life and career on the occasion of a retrospective of restored films at the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures
Eyewitness: with Saint Omer, Alice Diop offers a brilliant examination of all that cannot be elucidated about the “clawing duality that haunts so many Black people the world over”
By Anna ShechtmanLook again: The Super 8 Years, the first film from author Annie Ernaux, engages the Nobel-Prize winner’s career-long fascination with photography
The Film Comment Podcast: Indigenous Cinema
Collective action: filmmakers Sky Hopinka and Adam Piron discuss their work in the COUSIN Collective and a new streaming series at ThousandSuns Cinema
By Nicolas Pedrera-SetzerCold hearted: Hlynur Pálmason’s latest is an astute examination of the eternal failure of colonial projects when self-absorbed outsiders are tasked with getting to know the world beyond themselves
Drink it in: James Cameron’s much-hyped, space-whale opus seeds the franchise with a militant environmentalism that sets the film apart from similar feats of entertainment engineering
Truth claims: the French-Senegalese filmmaker discusses the real-life roots of her fiction debut and what it means to embody universality in a Black woman
Eyewitness: with Saint Omer, Alice Diop offers a brilliant examination of all that cannot be elucidated about the “clawing duality that haunts so many Black people the world over”
