Film Comment

Bitter pills: Madeline Whittle and Mark Ash join to discuss Mike Leigh's Hard Truths, Kiyoshi Kurosawa's Cloud, Pedro Almodóvar's The Room Next Door, and more

Dig in: critics Mark Asch and David Schwartz join to kick of our TIFF 2024 coverage, discussing Brady Corbet's The Brutalist, Gia Coppola's The Last Showgirl, Raoul Peck's Ernest Cole: Lost and Found, and more

Present pasts: for the final episode of our Fanon on Screen series, filmmaker and artist Madeleine Hunt-Ehrlich and writer Adam Shatz discuss Sarah Maldoror’s Monangambeee and Assia Djebar’s The Zerda and the Songs of Forgetting

Next man up: for part 3 of our Fanon on Screen series, editor and organizer Cheryl Rivera and writers Clifford Thompson and Adam Shatz join to discuss Ivan Dixon's The Spook Who Sat by the Door

On fire: for part 2 of our Fanon on Screen series, Maysles Documentary Center executive director Kazembe Balagun, scholar Brent Hayes Edwards, and writer Adam Shatz join to discuss Gillo Pontecorvo’s period epic Burn!

Passing through: Blair McClendon and Adam Shatz discuss the Fanonian themes of alienation and objectivity in Antonioni’s The Passenger

Flying home: filmmaker Suneil Sanzgiri and writer and programmer Greg de Cuir Jr. delve into the ways in which digital media represents and responds to colonialism, diaspora, and violence

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

Beach party tonight: programmers Sam Fleischner and Courtney Muller discuss this year's edition of the Rockaway Film Festival

Unconquered symbols: programmer Jessica Green joins to discuss her new thematic series, Passing You By: Impostorism on Film

Say it again: Jed Rapfogel of Anthology Film Archives joins to discuss a new series featuring films that make verbatim use of real-life sources

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

Lensing justice: Rahsaan Thomas and Thanh Tran share insights from their experience of directing films while they were incarcerated

School's out: Genevieve Yue and Isabel Stevens—both critics and parents—discuss what they watch with their children and why (with the kids themselves chiming in, too!)

Communal insistence: the curators join to discuss the making of this year's event, held at the Thai Film Archive

Lost highways: the two critics join to discuss their new book Corpses, Fools and Monsters, an examination of the past, present, and future of trans cinema

Killer's kiss: the famed American filmmaker joins to discuss his latest, a charming mix of screwball and noir that asks darkly comedic questions about identity, passion, and the criminal justice system

Real deal: Kiyoko McCrae, Adam Piron, Alemberg Ang, and Viv Li discuss what equitable collaboration looks like in nonfiction filmmaking

Let there be light: Dennis Lim and Justin Chang sit down to discuss late-festival selections All We Imagine as Light,The Seed of the Sacred Fig, Viet and Nam, and more

Hard rain: critics Beatrice Loayza, Giovanni Marchini Camia, and Caitlin Quinlan discuss Miguel Gomes’s Grand Tour, Alain Guiraudie’s Misericordia, Mahdi Fliefel’s To a Land Unknown, and Paolo Sorrentino’s Parthenope