Drunk in my past: this year's festival offered a feast of repertory delights, from a Columbia Pictures centenary program to an appearance by none other than Shah Rukh Khan
Rhythm of the night: critics and programmers Inney Prakash and Cici Peng join to discuss highlights from this year's festival, including films by Maxime Jean-Baptiste, Hong Sangsoo, Wang Bing, and more
Film Comment Live: The Rebel’s Cinema—Frantz Fanon on Screen
Join us from August 29–September 1 for a series of screenings and talks, at venues throughout New York City, focusing on the cinematic afterlives of the revolutionary writer and psychiatrist
By Alyssandra Maxine Hook or crook: directors Davy Chou and Martika Ramirez Escobar discuss their relationships with piracy and alternative distribution circuits in Cambodia and the Philippines
The Film Comment Podcast: Rep Report #3
Beach party tonight: programmers Sam Fleischner and Courtney Muller discuss this year's edition of the Rockaway Film Festival
By Devika Girish Buy now, pay later: at this year's festival, films by Radu Jude, Courtney Stephens, and Wang Bing explored advertisements, infomercials, and the lives of factory workers in an attempt to pull back the veil of the market
Island time: from the vacation antics of Adieu Philippine to the subtly anti-colonial comedy of The Castaways of Turtle Island Jacques Rozier’s films offer a crucial meditation on the possibilities and limitations of killing time
Bird in the hand: in Tilmann Singer’s new alpine horror flick Cuckoo, an onslaught of contrived plot twists and uneven performances undermine an ambitious pastiche of genre tropes
Behind closed doors: a new exhibition by Albert Serra at Amsterdam’s Eye Filmmuseum, based on the director’s 2019 feature Liberté, revels in Serra’s career-long interest in what happens at night
Look both ways: three new publications of Chris Marker’s texts expand our understanding of him as a multimodal artist, as attentive to the formal qualities of cinema as to matters of prose, graphic design, and civic issues