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The Strength of Street Knowledge

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

The Film Comment Podcast: Toronto 2019 #2

Roundup: all the latest from TIFF, with a focus on Lina from Lima, Synonyms, Terminal Sud, and Blood Quantum.
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Present Tense: Matthias Schoenaerts

The man in me: in the Belgian actor’s hands, characters who could be tough-guy cliches become fully-realized and three-dimensional
Read Sheila O’Malley’s column

News to Me: Leigh Ledare, Mark Cousins, and Venice to Toronto

Do the Hustle: Lopez and company, Susan Sontag, and Terrence Malick
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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

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

From the New Issue

The Strength of Street Knowledge

By Craigh Barboza
Pioneering filmmaker John Singleton captured the humanity and horrors of the modern urban world

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.

Deep Focus

Deep Focus: The Goldfinch

By Michael Sragow
Shiny objects: caught in the pointless pointillism of abrupt time jumps, few performers here have the chance to sustain a flow of emotion

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