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Devika Girish

The Film Comment Podcast: Raoul Peck on Exterminate All the Brutes

By Devika Girish
April 6, 2021
Time after time: the Haitian filmmaker discusses his new series, a kaleidoscopic exploration of the origins of white supremacy

Home Movies: Hyenas

By Devika Girish
May 8, 2020
Djibril Diop Mambéty, Senegal, 1992; Kino Lorber, DVD & Blu-Ray

Can Dialectics Break Bricks?

By Devika Girish
May 8, 2020
Colombian filmmaker Camilo Restrepo’s debut feature Los Conductos burns white-hot with the misterioso story of an outlaw at large

I Think We’re Alone Now

By Devika Girish
May 1, 2020
With no theater to step into, Devika Girish reflects on the options for connecting with others and with cinema

The Shepherdess and the Seven Songs

By Devika Girish
May 1, 2020
New and important work plucked from festivals and elsewhere

The Film Comment Podcast: Christian Petzold on Undine

By Devika Girish
February 28, 2020
Water under the bridge: Christian Petzold, director of Berlinale sensation Undine, talks about themes of romantic loss and betrayal in his work

Sundance Dispatch: This Is Not a Burial, It’s a Resurrection

By Devika Girish
February 3, 2020
The great flood: Lemohang Jeremiah Mosese's Sundance-winning feature turns the tragic realities of displacement in Lesotho into a strange, oneiric fable

The Film Comment Podcast: Kirsten Johnson on Dick Johnson Is Dead

By Devika Girish
January 31, 2020
Man alive: the director of Cameraperson sits down out at Sundance to discuss her latest, premiering at the festival

Sundance Dispatch: Never Rarely Sometimes Always

By Devika Girish
January 28, 2020
Looking forward: Eliza Hittman's portrait of fraught teenagehood is the most overtly political of the writer-director’s work

Letter to an Unknown Decade

By Devika Girish
January 21, 2020
Becoming a critic in an era of burgeoning possibility and unsettling futures

The Big Screen: The Assistant

By Devika Girish
January 16, 2020
In her harrowing new feature, Kitty Green details the lives of low-level Hollywood workers and the webs of power and silence they’re often caught in

Life’s Work

By Devika Girish
November 1, 2019
Greta Gerwig’s energetic tour-de-force adaptation of Little Women frames the aspirations of Jo and her sisters as urgent matters of personal independence

Dispatch: Women Making Film at Toronto 2019

By Devika Girish
September 24, 2019
Women of the world, take over: this year’s festival featured bracing, inspired films by up-and-coming women directors from all over the world

Interview: Rabah Ameur-Zaïmeche

By Devika Girish
September 18, 2019
Here, there, and everywhere: the director of Terminal Sud discusses the universal resonances of his elliptical French-Algerian thriller

The Big Screen: Monos

By Devika Girish
September 11, 2019
Although director Alejandro Landes’s script keeps context to an evocative minimum, the shadow of Colombia’s tentatively concluded civil conflict is unmistakable

Interview: Nanfu Wang and Jialing Zhang

By Devika Girish
August 12, 2019
Family matters: the directors of One Child Nation on the psychological workings—and vestiges—of the decades-long Chinese policy

Write What You Know

By Devika Girish
June 4, 2019
Cheerfully on point, workplace comedy Late Night plays out complex issues with the easy candor of its star, Mindy Kaling

Report on Reason

By Devika Girish
April 19, 2019
Fear is not an option: Anand Patwardhan's essay film traces the pattern of political and sectarian violence across the modern history of India

Feeling Seen: We Need to Talk About Us

By K. Austin Collins and Devika Girish
April 10, 2019
Face off: a conversation about Jordan Peele’s Us and issues of horror, race, class, and criticism itself

Sundance Dispatch: Midnight Family & The Infiltrators

By Devika Girish
February 11, 2019
Broken systems: two Sundance films highlight the breakdowns that occur when the public good meets the free market