The Film Comment Podcast: The Films of Christopher Harris
In a silent way: Christopher Harris joins to discuss the origins of his filmmaking in his youthful ambition to be musician, his interest in stillness and silence as structuring concepts, and why his work is always as fun as it is challenging and erudite
By Leo Goldsmith The great debate: Francis Ford Coppola's long-gestating passion project is both deeply personal and strangely unmoving
The Film Comment Podcast: NYFF62 Festival Report
That's a wrap: critics Bilge Ebiri and Lovia Gyarkye join Film Comment Editors Devika Girish and Clinton Krute for a spirited wrap-up analysis of the highlights and lowlights from this year's lineup
By Rebecca Cleman Into the limelight: In settings both grim and glamorous, Sean Baker's Anora repeatedly shows how despair is the bedrock for the false-front distractions of American kitsch
Body doubles: David Cronenberg's The Shrouds and Pedro Almodóvar's The Room Next Door find both auteurs still playing around the permutations of the flesh, but in a decidedly retrospective mood
The past is present: the 2024 NYFF Revivals section featured films about labor and dreams, including Zeinabu irene Davis’s Compensation, John Hanson and Rob Nilsson’s Northern Lights, and Robert Bresson’s Four Nights of a Dreamer.
Who shall I say is calling? Two NYFF62 standouts, Philippe Lesage’s Who by Fire and Nicolás Pereda’s Lázaro at Night, masterfully play with the slippage between the real and the fictional
Time passes slowly: the Chinese filmmaker discusses his latest, which makes a collage out of documentary-style footage shot during the making of his films over the last twenty years
Answering the call: the acclaimed British filmmaker speaks about his latest feature, his first in six years, which reunites him with Marianne Jean-Baptiste