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News to Me: Susan Seidelman, Ana Lily Amirpour, and Stanley Kubrick

By Film Comment
August 26, 2019
Wild in the streets: Roger Williams, Agnieszka Holland, and Gabriel Abrantes

Deep Focus: Ready or Not

By Michael Sragow
August 23, 2019
Bored games: the clumsy horror comedy pitches its blood-and-guts flakiness too absurdly high

Present Tense: Female Comedians

By Sheila O'Malley
August 23, 2019
Yes, and: why comedy and improv often produce some of the greatest actors

TCM Diary: Executive Suite

By Bruce Bennett
August 22, 2019
Hostile takeover: Robert Wise’s 1954 drama climaxes in a boardroom exchange of ballots, bluster, and bromides

The Film Comment Podcast: Richard Linklater & Ginger Sledge

By Nicolas Rapold
August 21, 2019
Finding yourself: the director and producer sit down to talk about their latest, Where’d You Go, Bernadette

News to Me: Locarno, Peter Fonda, and John Coltrane

By Film Comment
August 19, 2019
Cat’s meow: Lao and Thai renaissances, Jodie Mack, and Mia Hansen-Løve on Bergman

Deep Focus: Good Boys

By Michael Sragow
August 16, 2019
Youth in revolt: profanity and banality make for a joy-killing combination in Gene Stupnitsky’s sixth-grade, fourth-rate farce

Interview: Roberto Minervini

By Eric Hynes
August 15, 2019
“Fear is a good thing”: the director of What You Gonna Do When the World’s on Fire? on his powerful new doc

The Film Comment Podcast: Locarno 2019

By Nicolas Rapold
August 14, 2019
Shadows and light: programmers and critics Jessica Green and Jordan Cronk guest for a roundup of festival highlights

Queer & Now & Then: 1951

By Michael Koresky
August 14, 2019
School days: Jacqueline Audry’s melodrama Olivia all but luxuriates in an always imminent queer lust