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The Film Comment Podcast: Sundance Day Two

By Film Comment
January 19, 2018
In the public eye: thoughts on the opening night film Private Life, Our New President, 306 Hollywood, and more

The Film Comment Podcast: Sundance Day One

By Film Comment
January 18, 2018
Let the games begin: the first of our daily episodes from Park City previews what’s good, bad, and ugly

The Film Comment Podcast: Good Soundtrack, Bad Movie

By Film Comment
January 16, 2018
For your listening pleasure only: a handful of films that make up for their lack of storytelling prowess with unforgettable music

The Film Comment Podcast: Phantom Thread

By Film Comment
January 9, 2018
Bespoke: two female critics discuss Paul Thomas Anderson’s latest, featured on our January/February cover

News Digest

By Film Comment
January 4, 2018
Joaquin Phoenix on Lynne Ramsay’s upcoming film You Were Never Really Here, and a selection of notable production news

Home Movies: Listings

By Film Comment
January 3, 2018
Key

⦿DVD/★DEBUT
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▸STREAMING
▸EXCLUSIVE TO VOD

20 Discs to Watch

★★ 78/52: Hitchcock’s Shower Scene Alexandre…

Making the Case (Continued)

By Film Comment
January 2, 2018
Above and beyond: contributors speak in favor of films on (and off) our top 20 list, in an exclusive online extension of our year-end section

The Film Comment Podcast: Reckoning with Misogyny

By Film Comment
January 2, 2018
Woman’s work: critics discuss current and past attempts at ending sexual assault and inequality in the film industry and beyond

The Film Comment Podcast: Sleepover, or, The Comfort of Movies

By Film Comment
December 20, 2017
After midnight: what are the films we watch for comfort in difficult times? Glad you asked!

The Film Comment Podcast: The Best of 2017

By Film Comment
December 12, 2017
Not all that remains: our editors discuss our annual critics’ poll

The Film Comment Podcast: Formative Filmmakers (Part Two)

By Film Comment
December 5, 2017
Back to class: four writers discuss a few more directors that made them who they are today

The Film Comment Podcast: Formative Filmmakers (Part One)

By Film Comment
November 28, 2017
Teenage kicks: four writers discuss the directors and films that made them who they are—and how they keep learning from them

The Film Comment Podcast: Tales from the Campus Film Society

By Film Comment
November 21, 2017
University challenge: three veterans discuss their cinephilic rookeries

The Film Comment Podcast: David Bordwell’s Reinventing Hollywood

By Film Comment
November 14, 2017
Framing device: tracing the genesis of storytelling techniques that took Hollywood into modernism (and beyond)

Ephemera: Campus Film Societies

By Film Comment
November 8, 2017
Those were the days: a photo gallery of posters, zines, photos, and more

The Film Comment Podcast: 101 Episodes + Ruben Östlund

By Film Comment
November 7, 2017
Play it again, Violet: a choice selection of greatest hits, plus the director of The Square on contemporary masculinity

Home Movies: Listings

By Film Comment
November 3, 2017
20 DISCS TO WATCH

★★ Annabelle: Creation David F. Sandberg, USA, 2017; Warner Bros.
★★ Aquarius Kleber Mendonça Filho, Brazil/France, 2016; Kino Lorber

NYFF Voices: Last Flag Flying + Dragonfly Eyes

By Chloe Lizotte and Andreea Patru
November 2, 2017
Back to reality (in fiction): mapping the contemporary landscape of emotions and ethics, we revisit a couple of films with chats during NYFF

The Film Comment Podcast: Tobe Hooper

By Film Comment
October 31, 2017
Rest in pieces: a dissection of the horror director’s greatest, most gruesome films

The Film Comment Podcast: Lucrecia Martel’s Zama

By Film Comment
October 24, 2017
Distance plus time: elucidating the Argentine filmmaker’s adaptation of Antonio di Benedetto’s novel