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The Big Screen: Hotel by the River

The inertia of language: the latest from Hong, a master of small talk, draws attention to the emptiness beneath the chatter
Read Andrew Chan's review

The Film Comment Podcast: The Rep Report #5

Love is in the air: a tender look at Anthology's Valentine's Day series, a Jeff Goldblum retrospective, and other choice offerings
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Film of the Week: Varda par Agnès

Mirror image: the latest from the irrepressible filmmaker isn’t exactly a self-portrait, but a set of discursive and contemplative footnotes to her work and life
Read Jonathan Romney’s column

Queer & Now & Then: 1983

Even beyond its female, queer Jewishness, there’s something about Yentl that made people uncomfortable: Streisand’s chutzpah
Read Michael Koresky’s column

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Film of the Week

Film of the Week: Varda par Agnès

By Jonathan Romney
Mirror image: the latest from the irrepressible filmmaker isn’t exactly a self-portrait, but a set of discursive and contemplative footnotes to her work and life

Podcast

The Film Comment Podcast: The Rep Report #5

By Nicolas Rapold
Love is in the air: a tender look at Anthology's Valentine's Day series, a Jeff Goldblum retrospective, and other choice offerings

From the Archive

Interview: Claire Simon

By Lauren Du Graf
Back to school: Read a 2017 interview with the French documentarian, whose long-awaited first U.S. release The Competition opens next week in New York

Queer & Now & Then

Queer & Now & Then: 1983

By Michael Koresky
Even beyond its female, queer Jewishness, there’s something about Yentl that made people uncomfortable: Streisand’s chutzpah

Interviews

Interview: André Holland

By Tayler Montague
Bird on a wire: the lead actor and producer of High Flying Bird on his creative family and the origins of the film's radical politics

Deep Focus

Deep Focus: Alita: Battle Angel

By Michael Sragow
These arms of mine: the comic-book adaptation is aces as spectacle, but stumbles in scenes about family, romance, and the souls of machines

From the New Issue

The Big Screen: Hotel by the River

By Andrew Chan
The inertia of language: the latest from Hong, a master of small talk, draws attention to the emptiness beneath the chatter

TCM Diary

TCM Diary: Sounder

By Sheila O'Malley
Dirt roads and green fields: remarkable performances by Paul Winfield and Cicely Tyson punctuate Martin Ritt's 1972 family classic

Phantom Light

Tunnel Vision: The Hidden City and City Symphonies

By Imogen Sara Smith
Celebrating the kino-eye: The Hidden City, screening in Film Comment Selects, is part of a tradition extending to the beginnings of cinema