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The Film Comment Podcast: Cannes 2017 Roundtable #2

By Film Comment
May 30, 2017
Parting shots: a security-check-free view of the latest by David Lynch, Lynne Ramsay, Jane Campion, and others

The Film Comment Podcast: Cannes 2017 Roundtable #1

By Film Comment
May 23, 2017
Live from the Croisette: on the new films from Denis, Östlund, Varda, Lanthimos, Haneke, and more

Cannes 2017 Cheat Sheet

By Film Comment
May 17, 2017
Hitchhiker's guide to the Croisette: a quick reference for all sections

The Film Comment Podcast: Musicals! The Podcast

By Film Comment
May 16, 2017
Sing along: four movie musicals that helped define the genre, and four that are redefining it

The Film Comment Podcast: 1984

By Film Comment
May 9, 2017
Against the state: a post-screening discussion of the big-screen adaptation of George Orwell's novel

The Film Comment Podcast: Movie Gifts

By Film Comment
May 2, 2017
Happy birthday, Film Comment! A quartet of critics give each other films they’ve never seen before

The Film Comment Podcast: John Waters Is on the Phone

By Film Comment
April 28, 2017
Fast break: the Pope of Trash calls in from his Baltimore home for a chat

In Memoriam: Jonathan Demme

By Film Comment
April 27, 2017
Remembering the director of Stop Making Sense, Something Wild, and Silence of the Lambs

The Film Comment Podcast: Art of the Real 2017

By Film Comment
April 26, 2017
Who's there? An audio essay on three boundary-pushing films from the festival of nonfiction

The Film Comment Podcast: The Classical

By Film Comment
April 18, 2017
Throwback jams: does James Gray’s The Lost City of Z fit the mold of cinema’s golden era? (And what does that mean—or matter—anyway?)

The Film Comment Podcast: Terrence Malick

By Film Comment
April 11, 2017
Are you my angel? A debate over the alternately maligned and praised auteur's most recent films, including Song to Song

The Film Comment Podcast: Comedy Today

By Film Comment
April 5, 2017
Who's laughing now? A look at the tragic state of Hollywood humor

The Film Comment Podcast: New Directors / New Films 2017 + Albert Serra

By Film Comment
March 28, 2017
Life and death: the annual showcase of rising filmmakers, and an interview with the director of our March/April issue’s cover film, The Death of Louis XIV

The Film Comment Podcast: Coming of Age Horror

By Film Comment
March 21, 2017
Fear grows up so fast: on films that deal with the monstrousness of maturity

The Film Comment Podcast: Live from True/False 2017

By Film Comment
March 15, 2017
Honesty is the best policy: critics and filmmakers discuss their favorites at the Midwestern nonfiction juggernaut

The Film Comment Podcast: Acting for All Ages

By Film Comment
March 7, 2017
Youth without youth: how our understanding of actors change over time

The Film Comment Podcast: Steve Bannon

By Film Comment
February 28, 2017
In a red state: the talking-head, stock-footage fantasias of the "alt right" hero and White House Chief Strategist

Film Comment Readers’ Poll 2016

By Film Comment
February 27, 2017
As you like it: the 25 best movie according to you (no backsies)

The Film Comment Podcast: Before and After, Live

By Film Comment
February 21, 2017
The world has turned: at Film Comment Selects, our contributors and editors discuss the films they see differently post-Trump

The Film Comment Podcast: The King of Cinema

By Film Comment
February 14, 2017
Celebrity apprentice: a post-screening discussion of Martin Scorsese and King of Comedy and an audio tour of the exhibition about his life and films