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The Film Comment Podcast is a weekly space for critical conversation about film, with a look at topical issues, new releases, and the big picture. Subscribe on Soundcloud, iTunes, Spotify, Amazon, Audible, Google Play, or Stitcher.

The Film Comment Podcast: 2021 Amos Vogel Lecture by Albert Serra

By Film Comment

November 11, 2021

Pushing the envelope: the transgressive director explores his relationship with Vogel’s classic text, Film as a Subversive Art

The Film Comment Podcast: Amos Vogel and Subversive Cinema

By Film Comment

November 9, 2021

Persistence of vision: Richard Peña, Tom Waibel, and Edo Choi join for a roundtable discussion on the abiding influence of the legendary programmer and critic

The Film Comment Podcast: Halloween Hangover

By Film Comment

November 3, 2021

In the flesh: Violet Lucca and Maddie Whittle join to dissect some meaty underground horror picks, including Egyptian musical Fangs and Andy Milligan’s The Body Beneath

The Film Comment Podcast: Wendell B. Harris on Chameleon Street

By Film Comment

October 21, 2021

Talking cure: the writer, director, and actor digs into the origins of his newly restored 1989 indie classic about a compulsive conman

The Film Comment Podcast: Silvan Zürcher and Alexandre Koberidze

By Devika Girish

October 13, 2021

Modern myths: the directors of The Girl and the Spider and What Do We See When We Look at the Sky? discuss their inspirations, aspirations, and the resonances between their whimsical films

The Film Comment Podcast: The Velvet Underground & the New York Avant-Garde

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October 5, 2021

Foggy notion: Todd Haynes, Amy Taubin, Ed Lachman, and others join to discuss Haynes’s new documentary and much more

The Film Comment Podcast: Joanna Hogg & Honor Swinton Byrne on The Souvenir Part II

By Film Comment

October 1, 2021

All the world’s a set: the British filmmaker and her star join to discuss the second entry in their remarkable two-part saga of meta-autofiction

The Film Comment Podcast: NYFF 2021 Currents

By Clinton Krute

September 28, 2021

Group effort: critics Chloe Lizotte and Ela Bittencourt join to discuss highlights from this year's lineup, including The Tsugua Diaries, Haruhara-san’s Recorder, and more

The Film Comment Podcast: Toronto 2021

By Film Comment

September 21, 2021

Big picture: Adam Nayman and José Teodoro join to discuss Dune, Spencer, Power of the Dog, and much more

The Film Comment Podcast: Terence Davies on Benediction

By Devika Girish

September 14, 2021

Love is war: the British master discusses art, beauty, eternity, and his new film, an impressionistic biopic of poet Siegfried Sassoon