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Woman on the Verge

By Mark Asch

April 6, 2026

Screentime: Radu Jude‘s Kontinental ‘25 adapts its neorealist influences to our media-addled, morally bankrupt times

Interview: Julia Ducournau on Alpha

By Devika Girish

April 6, 2026

Unconditional loves: the French director discusses her latest, a surreal and moving coming-of-age story that reimagines the AIDS crisis

The Film Comment Podcast: Melissa Anderson on The Hunger

By Film Comment

March 31, 2026

Kiss kiss: the critic joins to discuss her new collection of film writing, her formative experiences with movies and criticism, and more

Searching for Space

By Fatoumata Bah

March 30, 2026

Extra time: in Alexandre Koberidze’s Dry Leaf, plot becomes secondary to movement, encounter, and digression

The Film Comment Podcast: The Films of Peter Watkins

By Film Comment

March 24, 2026

Living history: critic J. Hoberman joins to discuss the late British director’s utterly unique and invigoratingly political cinema

Doc Fortnight 2026: Collective Memory

By Katie Kirkland

March 16, 2026

Beyond the frame: films by Anocha Suwichakornpong, Ross McElwee, and Bani Khoshnoudi open lines of flight into the shared social and historical world to which they—and we—belong

The Film Comment Podcast: Oscars 2026 Preview with the Los Angeles Review of Books

By Film Comment

March 12, 2026

Showtime: the LARB Radio Hour joins to debate the relative merits and shortcomings of this year’s nominees—from Sinners to The Secret Agent to F1

Interview: Ross McElwee on Remake

By David Schwartz

March 9, 2026

Gone fishing: the documentarian talks about his first feature in over a decade, an emotionally devastating and intricately layered letter to his son

Berlinale 2026: Statements of Purpose

By Jonathan Romney

March 2, 2026

Lines drawn: How political must a festival be for it to be considered properly political?

The Film Comment Podcast: Akinola Davies Jr. on My Father’s Shadow

By Film Comment

February 26, 2026

Family portrait: the director talks about his elliptical, atmospheric debut feature set in 1993 Nigeria