Film Comment

Party’s over: our critics discuss latter-day selections including Alice Rohrwacher’s La chimera, Ken Loach’s The Old Oak, Wim Wenders’s Perfect Days, and more

Spotlight: Mark Asch, Miriam Bale, and Kevin B. Lee talk about the theme of performance in Wes Anderson’s Asteroid City, Víctor Erice’s Close Your Eyes, Aki Kaurismäki’s Fallen Leaves, and many more

Mirror mirror: the director of festival standout May December discusses his inspirations, the film’s use of the zoom lens, his thoughts on camp, and more

Table talk: critics Lovia Gyarkye, Abby Sun, and Kelli Weston join to discuss Martin Scorsese’s Killers of the Flower Moon, Todd Haynes’s May December, and more

Zone defense: Jonathan Romney and Giovanni Marchini Camia join to discuss Jonathan Glazer’s much-anticipated The Zone of Interest and Lisandro Alonso’s experimental western Eureka

Digging in: critics Beatrice Loayza, Inney Prakash, and James Wham join to discuss Hirokazu Kore-eda’s Monster, Wim Wenders’s Anselm, and more

Moi non plus: Jessica Kiang and Jordan Cronk open the proceedings with some discussion of early Cannes films and preview the movies they're most excited about seeing

Persistence of vision: critic Yasmina Price leads a panel conversation at the New York African Film Festival exploring legacy of the great filmmaker Safi Faye, who passed away in February

Riding high: Malcolm Harris, author of a history of Palo Alto, discusses the cinema of Northern California’s most disruptive region, from Muybridge’s animal locomotion studies to dot-com era techno thrillers

A mere game: the great director discusses his newly restored 1988 feature, his long career, and his thoughts on mortality and art

Fresh faces: Vadim Rizov and Beatrice Loayza join to discuss this year’s lineup of films by emerging directors, including Earth Mama, Safe Place, The Face of the Jellyfish, and more

Family time: the French actor and auteur discusses the autobiographical inspirations of his latest directorial venture and his father's Silver Bear–winning drama

Me and us: at True/False 2023, the directors of standouts Forms of Forgetting and Milithusando discuss the ethics and aesthetics of personal cinema

Don’t look back: critics Giovanni Marchini Camia, Victor Guimarães, and Frédéric Jaeger join to discuss Angela Schanelec’s Music, Hong Sangsoo’s In Water, German cinema at the Berlinale, and much more

Earth, wind, and fire: Inney Prakash, Edo Choi, and Caitlin Quinlan join to discuss the festival's buzzy new premieres, including Tótem, Samsara, Afire, The Plough, and Allensworth

Three’s company: the director and star of Berlinale standout The Adults discuss the ways that performance can reveal and withhold

Dust in the wind: critics Antoine Thirion and Jean-Michel Frodon join to discuss Disco Boy, Manodrome, Ingeborg Bachmann – Journey into the Desert, and more

Performance art: Erika Balsom and B. Ruby Rich join to discuss Orlando, My Political Biography, Reality, and The Echo

Take care: as part of the 2023 Berlin Critics’ Week, our panel debates the question of who will care for film culture

Eyes on the prize: director Sam Pollard and scholar Samantha N. Sheppard join to discuss Pollard’s new doc about basketball great Bill Russell