Web Only

Film of the Week: Godard Mon Amour

By Jonathan Romney

April 20, 2018

Contempt: a goofy, glib pastiche of JLG in ’68 shows Garrel growing but otherwise rewards scrutiny with cringes

Deep Focus: The Puppet Master: The Complete Jiri Trnka

By Michael Sragow

April 19, 2018

Handmade tales: the Czech wizard of stop-motion animation gets his due with the first complete U.S. retrospective

Interview: Tamer El Said

By Matt Morrison

April 19, 2018

The Square: the director of In the Last Days of the City retraces the long road to completing his personal Cairo chronicle of a filmmaker

Interview: Barbet Schroeder

By Devika Girish

April 18, 2018

Genocide in Myanmar: as the persecution continues, a look back at The Venerable W. which portrays a Buddhist leader of violence against Rohingya Muslims

The Film Comment Podcast: True/False 2018

By Film Comment

April 17, 2018

Late night tales: critics, filmmakers, programmers, and attendees hash out the highlights of this year’s festival

News to Me: Week of April 16

By Film Comment

April 17, 2018

Eurasian rapprochement: Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s Uzbek adventure, Lukas Moodysson’s TV project, and more

Film of the Week: Grace Jones: Bloodlight and Bami

By Jonathan Romney

April 12, 2018

Amazing Grace: a new documentary about the fearless, ageless performer celebrates her lifeforce on and off the stage

Queer & Now & Then: 1992

By Michael Koresky

April 11, 2018

No fear, no die: Sally Potter’s classic New Queer Cinema adaptation of Virginia Woolf emphasizes freedom from everything—except the past

Art and Craft: Cinematographer Kazuo Miyagawa

By Kazuo Miyagawa

April 11, 2018

Camera eye: the man who helped shape Japanese classics from Kurosawa to Mizoguchi to Shinoda

The Film Comment Podcast: Lucrecia Martel’s Zama

By Film Comment

April 10, 2018

Distance plus time: elucidating the Argentine filmmaker’s adaptation of Antonio di Benedetto’s novel