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Nicolas Rapold

Festivals: Trolling the Croisette

By Nicolas Rapold
July 2, 2018
At Cannes, self-determination effectively became the topic du jour, whether on the screen or in debates about the festival

The Film Comment Podcast: Visconti

By Nicolas Rapold
June 28, 2018
End of an era: the FSLC retrospective lets our contributors reappreciate the magnificent oeuvre of an Italian master who specialized in twilight moments

Interview: Margarethe von Trotta

By Nicolas Rapold
May 20, 2018
Leading the way: the German filmmaker discusses her new documentary Searching for Ingmar Bergman, now opening soon

Short Takes: En el Séptimo Día

By Nicolas Rapold
May 1, 2018
(Jim McKay, USA, Cinema Guild, Opening June 8)

Maternity Leave

By Nicolas Rapold
April 30, 2018
A writer wants to write in peace in Scary Mother, the fervid first film from Georgia’s Ana Urushadze

Festivals: True/False 2018

By Nicolas Rapold
March 26, 2018
Nothing plain about it: this year’s wave of documentaries gazed upon the ruins (of man, democracy, monasteries—take your pick)

Short Takes: Red Sparrow

By Nicolas Rapold
March 5, 2018
(Francis Lawrence, USA, 20th Century Fox, March 2)

Interview: Ildiko Enyedi

By Nicolas Rapold
February 21, 2018
Dream lover: the director of On Body and Soul discusses Freud and casting her Golden Bear–winning romance of loners, screening in Film Comment Selects

Interview: Michael Haneke

By Nicolas Rapold
December 19, 2017
Merry Christmas, Mr. Laurent: the extended version of our interview with the director of Happy End—now with more Houellebecq!

I Got Life

By Nicolas Rapold
November 6, 2017
Alain Gomis on finding the strength in Félicité (and Félicité)

Interview: Errol Morris (Part Two)

By Nicolas Rapold
October 31, 2017
In-house evil: the documentarian discusses Wormwood, state actors, and the act of forgetting history

Interview: Errol Morris (Part One)

By Nicolas Rapold
October 23, 2017
Truth, or something like it: the filmmaker discusses his multipart project, Wormwood, about a Cold War scientist who died in a mysterious fall from a Manhattan hotel

Interview: Robin Campillo

By Nicolas Rapold
October 9, 2017
Why we fight: the director of the Cannes award-winner BPM discusses portraying French AIDS activists, in love and war

Festivals: Toronto 2017

By Nicolas Rapold
September 22, 2017
Crowd control: soaking up the reactions to new films by Louis CK, Greta Gerwig, and James Franco in the theater where rabid fans and press collide

Festivals: Venice 2017

By Nicolas Rapold
September 18, 2017
Truman shows: the Fifties were a useful touchstone in this year’s crop of studio films on the Lido

Venice Interview: Véréna Paravel and Lucien Castaing-Taylor

By Nicolas Rapold
September 11, 2017
Dinner conversation: the directors of the ground-breaking Leviathan have a prolonged audience with Japanese cannibal Issei Sagawa (and his brother)

Review: Ex Libris: The New York Public Library

By Nicolas Rapold
September 4, 2017
(Director: Frederick Wiseman, Country/Distributor: USA, Zipporah Films, Opening: September 13)

Interview: Nelson Carlo de Los Santos Arias

By Nicolas Rapold
August 28, 2017
Fury inside: the director of Cocote discusses Dominican rituals and the relationship between the creolization of language and film form

Catastrophes on Parade

By Nicolas Rapold
July 3, 2017
The Cannes lineup vied for attention with current events and old habits of brilliance

Short Take: Lady Macbeth

By Nicolas Rapold
July 3, 2017
(William Oldroyd, UK, Roadside Attractions, July 14)