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Il Cinema Ritrovato 2025: Hot Bologna Nights

On fire: at this year’s edition of the festival devoted to rediscoveries and restorations, distinctions between high and low art dissolved into the heat of the air
Read Beatrice Loayza’s Essay

The Film Comment Podcast: Summer New Releases

Start your engines: critics Alana Pockros and Adam Nayman join to discuss F1, Materialists, 28 Years Later, and more
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Interview: John Smith on Being John Smith

Name game: the renowned British experimental filmmaker speaks about his latest, a politically charged and cheekily playful essay film
Read James Lattimer’s Interview

Structural Integrity

By Swagato Chakravorty
Circuit cities: the Mumbai-based collaborative art studio CAMP experiments with media technology in playful and political ways

The Film Comment Podcast: GriGris with Malcolm Harris and Anselm Kizza-Besigye

Fire escapes: the acclaimed author joins to discuss Mahamat-Saleh Haroun’s 2013 thriller, cinematic portrayals of the climate crisis, and more

From Cell to Screenplay: Finding My Voice Behind Bars

By Kwaneta Harris
New scene: the incarcerated journalist shares her painstaking journey to teach herself screenwriting in prison

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Features

Animal Magnetism

By Erika Balsom
Bull in the heather: Albert Serra‘s challenging and visceral portrait of a matador is one of the year’s best films

Features

Modern Love

By Guy Lodge
Walks beside me: an inclusive, elastic understanding of modern queer lives emerges across Dag Johan Haugerud’s Sex/Dreams/Love trilogy

Features

Country Living

By Olivia Crough
This whole world: the films of Pierre Creton model a communal life removed from urban capitalism, nationalism, and traditional family structures

Festivals

Tribeca 2025: Bigger Than the Screen

By Amy Taubin
Heroes and villains: the festival largely made good on its promise to show socially relevant works from independent and early-career filmmakers

Interviews

Interview: Alanis Obomsawin on The Children Have to Hear Another Story

By Caroline Monnet
Children‘s song: the 92-year-old filmmaker, visual artist, musician, and activist reflects on her influential body of work, currently the subject of a major retrospective at MoMA PS1

Podcast

The Film Comment Podcast: Familiar Touch with Kathleen Chalfant and Molly Haskell

By Film Comment
Recipe for living: the stalwart actor talks to the legendary film critic about her latest role as an octogenarian settling into a nursing home