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The 61st New York Film Festival

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Nothing but Blue Skies: Toronto 2023

Out of the blue: highlights from this year’s TIFF include Miko Revereza’s Nowhere Near, Atom Egoyan’s return to form Seven Veils, the murder mystery Reptile, and more
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The Film Comment Podcast: Toronto 2023 #2

Face to face: critics Chloe Lizotte and Adam Nayman join to discuss Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World, Dumb Money, The Boy and the Heron, and more
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Review: Remembering Every Night

By Emerson Goo
Garden of forking paths: Yui Kiyohara’s latest follows the intersecting paths of three women, in the process painting a portrait of their town as a ruin in the making

The Film Comment Podcast: Toronto 2023 #3

What more do you want? Local critics Saffron Maeve and Adam Nayman join to discuss new films from Atom Egoyan, Cord Jefferson, Pedro Almódovar, Bertrand Bonello, and more

From the Archive: Gentlemen Prefer Haynes

By Chuck Stephens
With Todd Haynes's latest, May December, opening NYFF61, revisit this in-depth 1995 profile of the filmmaker

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Features

Film Struck

By Genevieve Yue
Signs of the times: the most useful films for this moment of labor unrest in the film industry are those made in close connection with the workers on the front lines

Reviews

Outside, Looking In

By Devika Girish
Spit take: a collection of newly restored shorts from the Sudanese Film Group strain against the didactic dictates of a state-sanctioned national cinema

Film Comment Recommends

Film Comment Recommends: Rotting in the Sun

By Chris Shields
Take a look at yourself: Chilean director Sebastián Silva’s misery-suffused new comedy is ripe to the point of bursting

Interviews

Interview: Soda Jerk on Hello Dankness

By Jeff Reichert
I Can Has Cheezburger: the artist duo discuss their latest mash up of pop-culture touchstones, a surprisingly perceptive analysis of the political and cultural moment

Guilty Pleasures

Guilty Pleasures: Radu Jude

By Radu Jude
Graphic images: the Romanian director—whose film was the talk of the Locarno film festival—grapples with guilt and pleasure vis-à-vis art and culture in the context of war

Festivals

Warped Expectations: Locarno 2023

By Beatrice Loayza
Virtual reality: highlights from this year's edition include Radu Jude’s Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World and Eduardo Williams’s The Human Surge 3, both informed by our digitally-dominated daily life