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Completely Mental

By Nicolas Rapold
June 26, 2017
Robert Pattinson can’t stop, won’t stop: an interview excerpt with the star of the Safdie Brothers’ Good Time

Free Range

By Amy Taubin
July 3, 2017
With Okja, Bong Joon Ho creates his most dramatically protean adventure yet—a work of interspecies friendship, galloping satire, and monstrous truths

Review: Beach Rats

By Michael Koresky
July 3, 2017
(Eliza Hittman, USA, Neon, August 25)

Art/Form: Fulci’s Brush with Death

Written in blood: Italian avant-garde art and Lucio Fulci’s gutsy horror, together at last (with a dash of Bava)
Read Chris Shields’s article

Film of the Week: Dunkirk

Shellshocked: Christopher Nolan's spectacular World War II film pulls you into the confusion of war while avoiding hero worship
Read Jonathan Romney’s review

Deep Focus: Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets

Sad spectacle: Luc Besson’s latest is a gargantuan comic-book misfire
Read Michael Sragow’s review

Cinema ’67 Revisited: Up the Down Staircase

Lesson learned: Sandy Dennis takes names in Robert Mulligan's adaptation of a New York City schoolteacher's novel
Read Mark Harris’s column

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Podcast

The Film Comment Podcast: Location, Location, Location

By Film Comment
Off the set, into the streets: looking at the famous (or unexplored) places that made a film

Farran Smith Nehme

The Last Man on Earth (1924) & It’s Great to Be Alive (1933)

By Farran Smith Nehme
Single women run the world in a silent film fantasy and its musical remake

Cinema ’67 Revisited

Cinema ’67 Revisited: Up the Down Staircase

By Mark Harris
Lesson learned: Sandy Dennis takes names in Robert Mulligan's adaptation of a New York City schoolteacher's novel

Features

Fresh Meat: Diary of the Dead

By Robin Wood
Diary of the Dead may be the summation of George A. Romero’s zombie cycle (at least until the next installment)

Film of the Week

Film of the Week: Dunkirk

By Jonathan Romney
Shellshocked: Christopher Nolan's spectacular World War II film pulls you into the confusion of war while avoiding hero worship

Deep Focus

Deep Focus: Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets

By Michael Sragow
Sad spectacle: Luc Besson’s latest is a gargantuan comic-book misfire

Reviews

Short Take: War for the Planet of the Apes

By Michael Sragow
(Matt Reeves, USA, 20th Century Fox, July 14)

TCM Diary

TCM Diary: Halloween in July

By Chris Shields
The science of shriek: the rampage of Kyle MacLachlan in The Hidden and two other frightful delights

Interviews

Interview: Martin Landau

By Steven Mears
In the moment: an unpublished talk with the Academy Award–winning actor