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The Film Comment Podcast: High Life and Beyond

Blast off: Nick Pinkerton and Madeline Whittle guest for a deep space exploration of Claire Denis's latest and how it fits into her body of work
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Intolerance

On Westerns in general, John Ford’s in particular, and why Quentin Tarantino shouldn’t teach film history
Read Kent Jones's Essay

News to Me: Barbara Hammer, Nelly Kaplan, and Archives Aplenty

Wild things: Penelope Spheeris, a short from Claire Denis and Olafur Eliasson, and more
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Readers’ Poll 2018

Meeting of minds: Film Comment readers rank and comment on the best films of 2018
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Interviews

Interview: Jerry Schatzberg

By Christina Newland
Parklife: the director of Panic in Needle Park and Scarecrow on his long career depicting the emotional lives of those on the margins

50th Anniversary

Isabelle Huppert

By Lawrence O'Toole
To celebrate the upcoming 50th Anniversary of the Film Society of Lincoln Center, read our 1980 interview with the iconic actress

From the Archive

Intolerance

By Kent Jones
On Westerns in general, John Ford’s in particular, and why Quentin Tarantino shouldn’t teach film history

Podcast

The Film Comment Podcast: High Life and Beyond

By Nicolas Rapold
Blast off: Nick Pinkerton and Madeline Whittle guest for a deep space exploration of Claire Denis's latest and how it fits into her body of work

News

News to Me: Barbara Hammer, Nelly Kaplan, and Archives Aplenty

By Film Comment
Wild things: Penelope Spheeris, a short from Claire Denis and Olafur Eliasson, and more

Film of the Week

Film of the Week: Combat Obscura

By Jonathan Romney
Combat fatigue: Miles Lagoze’s Afghanistan documentary shows the boredom and brutality of endless war

Phantom Light

Magic Touch: The Eyes of Orson Welles and The Mystery of Picasso

By Imogen Sara Smith
Looking and seeing: two films about genius, perception, and visual communication

Queer & Now & Then

Queer & Now & Then: 1976

By Michael Koresky
Growing up: Terence Davies's Children's simplicity of form belies a complex network of narrative crosshatches

Reviews

Review: The Juniper Tree

By Mark Asch
Child of nature: an Icelandic fairy tale about a young woman, played by a 20-year-old Björk, conjures a world from the Brothers Grimm