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Aged to Perfection: Locarno 2024

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
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The Film Comment Podcast: Locarno 2024

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
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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
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Print Out: The Love on Your Shoulders, The World It Sustains

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

Sell Out: Locarno 2024

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

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That Summer Feeling

By Beatrice Loayza
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

Reviews

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By Saffron Maeve
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

Features

Under Cover of Darkness

By Jamie Aylward
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

Features

The Owl’s Legacy

By Max Goldberg
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

Podcast

The Film Comment Podcast: Jonathan Rosenbaum on In Dreams Begin Responsibilities

By Film Comment
Future past: the renowned critic discusses his new book, a career spanning collection of writing on film, music, and literature

Interviews

Interview: Tomoko Tabata on Shinji Sômai’s Moving

By Daniel Eagan
Early start: the renowned Japanese actress discusses her 1993 debut in a landmark film by director Shinji Sômai