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Just Deserts

Shifting sands: Denis Villeneuve’s Dune typifies the current mania for world-building over character-building
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The Film Comment Podcast: Wendell B. Harris on Chameleon Street

Talking cure: the writer, director, and actor digs into the origins of his newly restored 1989 indie classic about a compulsive conman
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The Film Comment Podcast: The Velvet Underground & the New York Avant-Garde

Foggy notion: Todd Haynes, Amy Taubin, Ed Lachman, and others join to discuss Haynes’s new documentary and much more
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Interview: Julia Ducournau

Motorhead: the director of Titane on the film’s surprising use of humor, her abiding interest in “opening the skin,” and much more
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Waking Life

By Imogen Sara Smith
Time’s arrow: in Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s Memoria, the past is alien, layered with trauma and the beauty of the unknowable

The Film Comment Podcast: Wendell B. Harris on Chameleon Street

Talking cure: the writer, director, and actor digs into the origins of his newly restored 1989 indie classic about a compulsive conman

Secrets and Lies

By Manu Yáñez Murillo
Birth of tragedy: the search for truth, both personal and historical, is the driving force of Parallel Mothers, Pedro Almodóvar’s most openly political film to date

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Heavens!

By Genevieve Yue
Hands of God: Paul Verhoeven’s latest is an oddly buoyant film that treats its subject—the only nun on record to have a detailed account of sapphic exploits—with sincerity, even reverence

Features

Of Gods and Men

By Molly Haskell
Saddle sore: Jane Campion’s latest is lacking in the richly personal, idiosyncratic feminism of her great early films

Podcast

The Film Comment Podcast: Joanna Hogg & Honor Swinton Byrne on The Souvenir Part II

By Film Comment
All the world’s a set: the British filmmaker and her star join to discuss the second entry in their remarkable two-part saga of meta-autofiction

Features

Work-Life Balance

By Madeline Whittle
Family vacation: In Mia Hansen-Løve’s latest, Bergman Island, the Swedish master’s influence offers less inspiration than a strategy for moving through life as an artist

Features

Are You Talking to Me?

By Adam Nayman
I’m looking through you: The common denominator in Ryūsuke Hamaguchi’s Drive My Car and Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy is an acceptance of transience in all things

Interviews

Interview: Alexandre Koberidze

By Jessica Kiang
In dreams: the Georgian director discusses the method behind the delicate balance of romance, folklore, and social critique in his What Do We See When We Look At The Sky?