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Willing Sinner: Pedro Almodóvar

With the autobiographical Pain and Glory on the horizon, revisit a 1988 interview with the Spanish auteur
Read Marcia Pally’s Feature

Interview: Kirill Mikhanovsky and Alice Austen

Risky business: the director and screenwriter behind Give Me Liberty on the difficult process of bringing their vision to the screen
Read Amy Taubin’s Interview

The Film Comment Podcast: Toronto 2019 #3

Foggy notion: Michael Koresky and Justin Chang join for a discussion of Marriage Story, Jojo Rabbit Uncut Gems, Color Out of Space, and others
Listen to the conversation

The Strength of Street Knowledge

Pioneering filmmaker John Singleton captured the humanity and horrors of the modern urban world
Read Craigh Barboza’s article

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News to Me: Lucrecia Martel, Franco Piavoli, and Women Editors

By James Wham
The electric eye: Joanna Hogg, Tarantino, and Republic Pictures

Monthly Picks

See This: September Picks

By Film Comment
Some new (and old) films that we feel deserve a little extra attention—brought to you by Warby Parker

Podcast

The Film Comment Podcast: Toronto 2019 #3

By Nicolas Rapold
Foggy notion: Michael Koresky and Justin Chang join for a discussion of Marriage Story, Jojo Rabbit Uncut Gems, Color Out of Space, and others

Festivals

Dispatch: Toronto 2019

By Michael Koresky
Love on the rocks: a report from TIFF on Marriage Story, Two of Us, Africa, and others

TCM Diary

TCM Diary: Into the Sunset

By Justin Stewart
Don't look back: two films, The Harder They Fall and The Defector, featuring stars in their final big-screen performances

Queer & Now & Then

Queer & Now & Then: 1959

By Michael Koresky
Missing persons: Joseph Mankiewicz’s Suddenly, Last Summer is fascinating and pleasurably aberrant, a miracle of queer impropriety.

Interviews

Willing Sinner: Pedro Almodóvar

By Marcia Pally
With the autobiographical Pain and Glory on the horizon, revisit a 1988 interview with the Spanish auteur

Film of the Week

Film of the Week: The Sound of Silence

By Jonathan Romney
Listen up: Michael Tyburski’s first feature is a delicate character study that yields strange, stimulating ideas about noise and quiet

The Big Screen

The Big Screen: Monos

By Devika Girish
Although director Alejandro Landes’s script keeps context to an evocative minimum, the shadow of Colombia’s tentatively concluded civil conflict is unmistakable