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Cannes Dispatch: Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood

May 22, 2019

Eternal return: the director and stars of the Cannes sensation share some thoughts on what some have dubbed “Tarantino’s Roma”

Queer & Now & Then: 1942

By Michael Koresky

May 22, 2019

A queer duck: masculinity, social progress, and comeuppance in The Magnificent Ambersons

Feeling Seen: Roberto Gavaldón, Misanthrope

By Carlos Valladares

May 22, 2019

Pity and fear: The Mexican filmmaker takes his rightful place as the evil twin of such cinematic poets of fate as Frank Borzage and Jacques Demy

Cannes Interview: Mati Diop

By Eric Hynes

May 22, 2019

Crossing over: the director of Atlantique on her debut feature at Cannes, a mysterious fable about migrants, magic, and transformation

The Film Comment Podcast: Cannes 2019 Day 7, part II

By Nicolas Rapold

May 21, 2019

Hootenanny: fresh (and contentious takes) on Quentin Tarantino’s Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood and Terrence Malick’s A Hidden Life

Cannes Interview: Kleber Mendonça Filho and Juliano Dornelles

By Ela Bittencourt

May 21, 2019

Country life: The directors of Bacurau on how the film‘s setting in Brazil’s wild backcountry informed their blistering portrait of resistance

The Film Comment Podcast: Cannes 2019 Day 7

By Nicolas Rapold

May 21, 2019

Conjuring spirits: Carlo Chatrian joins to discuss Bertrand Bonello, Albert Serra, Bruno Dumont, Corneliu Porumboiu, and cycles of genre at the festival

Cannes Dispatch: And Then We Danced

By Eugene Hernandez

May 20, 2019

Old country waltz: Levan Akin’s And Then We Danced is a quietly revolutionary movie set in the former Soviet republic of Georgia

The Film Comment Podcast: Cannes 2019 Day 6

By Nicolas Rapold

May 20, 2019

A sailor’s life: Dennis Lim and Jonathan Romney join to discuss premieres from Robert Eggers, Corneliu Porumboiu, and Albert Serra

News to Me: Akerman, Carax, and the Cannes Can-Can

By Film Comment

May 20, 2019

Setting sail: Céline Sciamma, Mati Diop, and mirrors in the movies