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This Charming Man

How Soon Is Now? The Killer, David Fincher’s latest entry in the canon of cinema du sociopath is a sleek, meticulously assembled film lives up to its punny tagline: “Execution Is Everything.”
Read Nathan Lee’s essay

Tiny King

Big plans: the latest from Ridley Scott, trailblazing auteur–turned–late-career journeyman, is an epic biopic of the war-mongering emperor that turns out to be a bit weirder than it initially seems
Read Mark Asch’s Essay

The Film Comment Podcast: Trust Issues at NYFF61

Don’t lie to me: filmmakers Rosine Mbakam, Kleber Mendonça Filho, and Frederick Wiseman join to discuss the slippery nature of truth on screen
Listen to the conversation

Dominik Graf on Melting Ink

By Darren Hughes
Material history: the veteran filmmaker discusses his latest documentary, an investigation of the numerous German writers and artists who collaborated (often quietly) with the Nazi regime

The Film Comment Podcast: Mumbai Film Festival 2023

Gateway art: Inney Prakash joins to discuss this year's Mumbai Film Festival, an oasis for indie cinema in the glitzy homebase of Bollywood

Review: Dream Scenario

By Saffron Maeve
Perchance to dream: a satire on celebrity and cancel culture, the new Nicholas Cage–vehicle, Dream Scenario, treads the thin line between critique and caricature

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Phantom Threads: Seven Ways of Looking at the Ghosts of Cinema 

By Dennis Lim
Boo: premised on illusion and promising endless reanimation, cinema is often called the ghostliest of mediums, haunted by phantoms since its beginnings

Podcast

The Film Comment Podcast: Lisa Cortés on Little Richard: I Am Everything

By Clinton Krute
Good golly: the multi-hyphenate filmmaker discusses her new documentary on the extraordinary life and times of one of the great American artists

Interviews

Interview: Wang Bing on Youth (Spring)

By Dennis Lim
Finest worksong: documentarian Wang Bing discusses his two Cannes entries—the typically expansive Youth (Spring), and Man in Black, a briefer, but equally dense portrait of a composer

Features

Great Performances

By Geeta Dayal
Listen to this: the place and role of music in NYFF61 biopics Maestro and Priscilla is instructive of the ways in which an artist’s life can only be understood through their work

Interviews

Interview: Raven Jackson and Jomo Fray on All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt

By Miriam Bale
Earth and sky: the director and cinematographer behind the NYFF61 standout discuss their poetic, evocative portrait of a young woman whose story is inextricably linked to a sense of community and place

Features

History Lives in the Present

By Jacob Floyd
Through the lens: Martin Scorsese’s Killers of the Flower Moon explores an overlooked chapter of American history, and intervenes in film history itself, especially as it pertains to representations of Native peoples