Time and time again: recent works by Elisabeth Subrin and Zia Anger join a lineage of women’s films that invite us to witness failures and refusal, imbuing them with significance through re-performance
The Film Comment Podcast: Payal Kapadia and Miguel Gomes
Long journeys: the two auteurs discuss their latest films, which are both city symphonies that center love stories within broader political contexts and are driven by the pulsings of female desire
By Benjamin Crais Scenes from the class struggle: a new repertory series at MoMA asks its viewers to connect Portugal’s political revolution to a longer aesthetic tradition dedicated to the constant renegotiation of the relationship between documentary and fiction
The Film Comment Podcast: The Films of Robert Kramer
Starting places: critics Erika Balsom and Benjamin Crais join to discuss the undersung filmmaker’s richly heterogenous, and endlessly fascinating, body of work
By Christopher Small Milestones: a new book republishes a free-flowing conversation between the noted French critic and the American filmmaker conducted in the late ’90s
Into the limelight: in settings both grim and glamorous, Sean Baker's Anora repeatedly shows how despair is the bedrock for the false-front distractions of American kitsch
Body doubles: David Cronenberg's The Shrouds and Pedro Almodóvar's The Room Next Door find both auteurs still playing around the permutations of the flesh, but in a decidedly retrospective mood
The past is present: the 2024 NYFF Revivals section featured films about labor and dreams, including Zeinabu irene Davis’s Compensation, John Hanson and Rob Nilsson’s Northern Lights, and Robert Bresson’s Four Nights of a Dreamer.
Time passes slowly: the Chinese filmmaker discusses his latest, which makes a collage out of documentary-style footage shot during the making of his films over the last twenty years
