Pod life: horror experts Nicholas Russell and Clyde Folley join for our annual fearfest, this time focusing on Abel Ferrara’s 1993 remake, Body Snatchers, and Michael Powell’s classic, Peeping Tom
Sweet nothings: all-star critics Molly Haskell, Adam Nayman, and Kelli Weston join for a Film Comment Live talk to discuss and debate all the highlights of the festival that was
Work out: representatives of the unions behind the writers’ and actors’ strikes join, along with critic Alissa Wilkinson, to discuss these labor actions
What more do you want? Local critics Saffron Maeve and Adam Nayman join to discuss new films from Atom Egoyan, Cord Jefferson, Pedro Almodóvar, Bertrand Bonello, and more
Face to face: critics Chloe Lizotte and Adam Nayman join to discuss Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World, Dumb Money, The Boy and the Heron, and more
Think piece: A.I. scholar Andrea Rizzoli and critic Kevin B. Lee join to discuss the limitations and possibilities of A.I. as applied to art and cinema
A little perspective: the musician and filmmaker talks about his new series, a madcap coming-of-age caper about a Black giant who confronts a broken capitalist world
Between the lines: collector Robert M. Rubin and bibliographer Erin McGuirl join to discuss the ways in which unique screenplays and other "exformation" can help rewrite film history
The long day closes: Justin Chang, Dennis Lim, and Rachel Rosen offer an overview of the festival that was, and discuss late premieres from Catherine Breillat and Hong Sangsoo
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
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