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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

Film of the Week: The Future Perfect

By Jonathan Romney
September 15, 2017
Live translation: Nele Wohlatz’s meditation on immigration and language is comedic and self-reflexive

Deep Focus: mother!

By Michael Sragow
September 14, 2017
Open house: Darren Aronofsky’s attempts at a mystical thriller flounder

Festivals: Toronto

By Michael Koresky
September 14, 2017
Fatal attractions: this year’s pared-down fest offered several views on loss and aging

The Film Comment Podcast: Live from TIFF ’17

By Film Comment
September 13, 2017
Northern lights: six critics discuss Zama, mother!, Downsizing, and much more at this year’s Toronto International Film Festival

Telluride 2017 Journal

By Eugene Hernandez
September 13, 2017
True stories: even the best fiction offerings at the mountain-adjacent festival were based in reality

Cinema ’67 Revisited: The Battle of Algiers

By Mark Harris
September 13, 2017
Ripped from the headlines: Gillo Pontecorvo’s on-the-ground view of colonial revolt was accused of being a textbook for American radicals

TCM Diary: Ruby Gentry

By Robert Horton
September 12, 2017
Wayward woman: King Vidor’s 1952 tale of small town politics is contradictory but enduringly magnetic

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)

Film of the Week: Mektoub, My Love: Canto Uno

By Jonathan Romney
September 8, 2017
Hearts on fire: Abdellatif Kechiche returns with an exuberant (and slightly lecherous) non-story of youth