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Worldly Wise

By Violet Lucca
July 2, 2018
Isao Takahata leaves behind a quietly bold legacy of emotional maturity to the sometimes infantilized realm of animation

It Happened Here

By Teo Bugbee
July 2, 2018
Spike Lee’s galvanizing BlacKkKlansman taps the conventions of genre to grasp the country’s legacy of hatred—and resistance

White Noise

By Ina Diane Archer
July 2, 2018
Boots Riley’s debut feature Sorry to Bother You busts out a satiric surrealism to express a warped racial and economic reality

The Film Comment Podcast: Boots Riley and Questlove

The means of production: the director of Sorry to Bother You talks about his brilliant, bizarre work of pop radicalism, in our latest Film Comment Free Talk
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Interview: Nelson Carlo de Los Santos Arias

Fury inside: the director of Cocote discusses Dominican rituals and the relationship between the creolization of language and film form
Read Nicolas Rapold's interview

Film of the Week: The Third Murder

Open to interpretation: Hirokazu Kore-eda’s legal drama about a murder blurs the line between enigmatic and perhaps merely vague
Read Jonathan Romney’s column

Queer & Now & Then: 1971

Organized mutiny: William Greaves’s reflexive landmark Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take One has more than meta-shenanigans on its mind
Read Michael Koresky’s column

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News

News to Me: Angela Schanelec, Jim Jarmusch, Ilya Khrzhanovsky

By Chloe Lizotte
Missing person report: Schanelec’s next film, Jarmusch undead again and loving it, and world cinema by Ilya Khrzhanovsky

Reviews

Film of the Week: The Third Murder

By Jonathan Romney
Open to interpretation: Hirokazu Kore-eda’s legal drama about a murder blurs the line between enigmatic and perhaps merely vague

Interviews

Get Me Rewrite

By Nicolas Rapold
With BlacKkKlansman, Spike Lee forcefully corrects the record of American history once again

Queer & Now & Then

Queer & Now & Then: 1971

By Michael Koresky
Organized mutiny: William Greaves’s reflexive landmark Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take One has more than meta-shenanigans on its mind

Podcast

The Film Comment Podcast: Boots Riley and Questlove

By Nicolas Rapold
The means of production: the director of Sorry to Bother You talks about his brilliant, bizarre work of pop radicalism, in our latest Film Comment Free Talk

Features

Where Are We with Bergman?

By Olivier Assayas
A filmmaker reflects on the Swedish master’s legacy in a changed world (and a world he changed)

Imogen Sara Smith

Hard Traveling: Araby, Gabriel and the Mountain, and Vagabond

By Imogen Sara Smith
Miles to go: two clear-eyed new films of people on the move follow in the footsteps of Varda’s story of a drifter

TCM Diary

TCM Diary: High Society

By Sheila O'Malley
The right sort: Rhode Island airs are front and center in the 1956 musical adaptation of The Philadelphia Story, but how does the cast measure up?

Festivals

Festivals: Drifting Apart

By Kent Jones
Cannes risks the loss of cherished ideals, though filmmakers fight the good fight