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The Film Comment Podcast: Locarno 2019

Shadows and light: programmers and critics Jessica Green and Jordan Cronk guest for a roundup of festival highlights
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Queer & Now & Then: 1951

School days: Jacqueline Audry’s melodrama Olivia all but luxuriates in an always imminent queer lust
Read Michael Koresky's Column

Lost in America: Richard Linklater

Revisit two sides of the American nightmare in this 2006 interview with the director of the new Where’d You Go, Bernadette
Read Gavin Smith’s interview

Interview: Nanfu Wang and Jialing Zhang

Family matters: the directors of One Child Nation on the psychological workings—and vestiges—of the decades-long Chinese policy
Read Devika Girish’s Interview

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Interviews

Interview: Roberto Minervini

By Eric Hynes
“Fear is a good thing”: the director of What You Gonna Do When the World’s on Fire? on his powerful new doc

Podcast

The Film Comment Podcast: Locarno 2019

By Nicolas Rapold
Shadows and light: programmers and critics Jessica Green and Jordan Cronk guest for a roundup of festival highlights

Playlist

Playlist: Punks, Poets & Valley Girls

By Clinton Krute
Pretty vacant: a series at BAM yields a varied mix of post-punk, minimalism, and smooth pop

The Big Screen

The Big Screen: Where’d You Go, Bernadette

By Michael Koresky
In his latest, Richard Linklater confronts the gap between youthful expectation and the specter of failure

Queer & Now & Then

Queer & Now & Then: 1951

By Michael Koresky
School days: Jacqueline Audry’s melodrama Olivia all but luxuriates in an always imminent queer lust

The Big Screen

The Big Screen: Aquarela

By Fatima Naqvi
In Victor Kossakovsky’s masterful essay film, water in all its forms provides the scale against which human life is to be measured

From the Archive

Lost in America: Richard Linklater

By Gavin Smith
Revisit two sides of the American nightmare in this 2006 interview with the director of the new Where’d You Go, Bernadette

Short Takes

Short Take: What You Gonna Do When the World’s on Fire?

By Tayler Montague
Roberto Minervini’s documentary teems with beauty

Deep Focus

Deep Focus: Good Boys

By Michael Sragow
Youth in revolt: profanity and banality make for a joy-killing combination in Gene Stupnitsky’s sixth-grade, fourth-rate farce