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Interview: Ross McElwee on Remake

Gone fishing: the documentarian talks about his first feature in over a decade, an emotionally devastating and intricately layered letter to his son
Read David Schwartz‘s interview

The Film Comment Podcast: Akinola Davies Jr. on My Father’s Shadow

Family portrait: the director talks about his elliptical, atmospheric debut feature set in 1993 Nigeria
Listen to the conversation

Berlinale 2026: Statements of Purpose

Lines drawn: How political must a festival be for it to be considered properly political?
Read Jonathan Romney’s dispatch

Interview: Scott MacDonald on Comprehending Cinema and More

By Paul Attard
Critical cinema: the experimental film scholar talks about programming a series with his students, the films he can’t avoid showing first-year undergrads, and what it truly means to “comprehend” cinema

The Film Comment Podcast: Ashley Clark on The World of Black Film

Reading list: the critic and curator joins to discuss his new book, a survey of significant films made by Black filmmakers or centering Black life

Withering Lows

By Genevieve Yue
Window dressing: maybe, because it’s 2026, and we are all so very tired, we are getting the Wuthering Heights we deserve—a limp one

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Festivals

IFFR 2026: Motion Capture

By Jordan Cronk
Future picture: festival highlights like The Misconceived, Tycoon, and Chronovisor suggested a new kind of visual storytelling defined by a fluid mix of mediums and methodologies

Festivals

Sundance 2026: Culture/Industry

By Devika Girish
Portrait galleries: festival highlights like Once Upon a Time in Harlem, I Want Your Sex, and If I Go Will They Miss Me offered a balm for independent art

Podcast

The Film Comment Podcast: Sundance 2026 #5

By Film Comment
Take a load off: Bilge Ebiri, Tim Grierson, and Madeline Whittle close out the fest, discussing The Weight, When a Witness Recants, Chasing Summer, and more

Long Read

Street Level

By Ian F. Blair
(In)visible boards: a history of the skate film

Interviews

Interview: Jim Jarmusch on Father Mother Sister Brother

By Amy Taubin
Family relations: the legendary American filmmaker talks about his latest, a funny, sad, and haunting portrait of parents and children

Interviews

Interview: Hlynur Pálmason on The Love That Remains

By Flavia Dima
Family rooms: the Icelandic auteur discusses his latest intimate epic, which follows a separated couple co-parenting their children while navigating life beyond marriage