By Jessica Kiang The Georgian director explains the method behind the balance of romance and social critique in What Do We See When We Look At The Sky?
The Film Comment Podcast: The Velvet Underground & the New York Avant-Garde
Foggy notion: Todd Haynes, Amy Taubin, Ed Lachman, and others join to discuss Haynes’s new documentary and much more
By Adam Nayman The common denominator in Ryūsuke Hamaguchi’s Drive My Car and Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy is an acceptance of transience in all things
Hands of God: Paul Verhoeven’s latest is an oddly buoyant film that treats it’s subject—the only nun on record to have a detailed account of sapphic exploits—with sincerity, even reverence
Family vacation: In Mia Hansen-Løve’s latest, Bergman Island, the Swedish master’s influence offers less inspiration than a strategy for moving through life as an artist
Group effort: critics Chloe Lizotte and Ela Bittencourt join to discuss highlights from this year's lineup, including The Tsugua Diaries, Haruhara-san’s Recorder, and more
Cloak and dagger: Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s engrossing World War II tale embeds an exposé of Japan’s bio-weapons program in the drama of a couple’s dueling loyalties
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