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Blood on Their Hands: Luis Ospina

By Ela Bittencourt
May 8, 2020
Colombian class warrior Luis Ospina blazed a revolutionary trail through Latin American cinema with subversive genre and documentary works

Future Shock: Amy Seimetz

By Nicolas Rapold
May 1, 2020
In She Dies Tomorrow, writer-director Amy Seimetz orchestrates a small symphony of anxiety through uncanny contagion horror

Can Dialectics Break Bricks?

By Devika Girish
May 8, 2020
Colombian filmmaker Camilo Restrepo’s debut feature Los Conductos burns white-hot with the misterioso story of an outlaw at large

The Film Comment Podcast: At Home #16

Into the wild: Devika Girish and Clinton Krute join to discuss Salesman, The Matrix, Hong Sangsoo, and a host of animal-themed selections
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Present Tense: Citizens Band

Breaker breaker: Jonathan Demme’s 1977 CB-radio comedy spoke to the present moment in all kinds of unexpected ways
Read Sheila O’Malley’s Column

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Queer & Now & Then: 1964

Primal scream: Flaming Creatures, Jack Smith’s spectacle of intense queer desire, is one of the most beautiful of all experimental films
Read Michael Koresky’s Column

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Present Tense

Present Tense: Citizens Band

By Sheila O'Malley
Breaker breaker: Jonathan Demme’s 1977 CB-radio comedy spoke to the present moment in all kinds of unexpected ways

Interviews

Interview: Andrew Litvack

By Manu Yáñez Murillo
More than words: the subtitler of Godard, Assayas, and others talks about the process in this accompaniment to our May-June 2020 Art and Craft article

The Pre-Show

The Pre-Show: Notes

By Film Comment

Queer & Now & Then

Queer & Now & Then: 1964

By Michael Koresky
Primal scream: Flaming Creatures, Jack Smith’s spectacle of intense queer desire, is one of the most beautiful of all experimental films

Art and Craft

See What I Mean?

By Darcy Paquet
The subtitler for Bong Joon Ho and Hong Sangsoo talks about the nuances of on-screen translation and working with filmmakers

Podcast

The Film Comment Podcast: At Home #16

By Nicolas Rapold
Into the wild: Devika Girish and Clinton Krute join to discuss Salesman, The Matrix, Hong Sangsoo, and a host of animal-themed selections

Film of the Week

Film of the Week: A White, White Day

By Jonathan Romney
Frozen warnings: Hlynur Pálmason’s Icelandic drama is a stark psychological thriller that unpicks its hero’s troubled soul with forensic coolness

Feeling Seen

Feeling Seen: Song of the Exile

By Phoebe Chen
Family ties: Ann Hui’s 1990 family drama is striking in the way it parcels out knowledge of cultural history as a gradual, lived revelation

From the Archive

Interview: Bruce Baillie

By Film Comment
The avant-garde director, who passed away last week at the age of 88, discusses life, death, and filmmaking in this 1971 interview