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Higher Learning: Chromatic Modernity

By Sarah Street and Joshua Yumibe
August 2, 2019
Technicolor dreams: our modern sense of color as a standardized commodity is intertwined with the history of cinema

Dispatch: FIDMarseille 2019

By Christopher Small
August 1, 2019
Truth in fiction: all the notable films at this year’s festival played fast and loose with the outer limits of their fictions

Film of the Week: Tel Aviv on Fire

By Jonathan Romney
August 1, 2019
Conversational divide: Sameh Zoabi’s comedy engages with questions of history, politics, and cultural difference—and similarity

The Film Comment Podcast: Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood

By Nicolas Rapold
July 31, 2019
Hanging on the line: on the accomplishments and significance of Tarantino’s latest

Queer & Now & Then: 1975

By Michael Koresky
July 31, 2019
Cleaning up well: Saturday Night at the Baths is part charmingly awkward coming-out narrative, part document of a disappearing culture

Classified: Eco-Horror

By April Wolfe
July 29, 2019
Natural reactions: cinema’s history of depicting nature as brute force equalizer and death dealer

News to Me: Rutger Hauer, Hirokazu Kore-eda, and Baumbach goes Barbie

By Film Comment
July 29, 2019
Food for thought: Orson Welles, Milos Stehlik, and Paris, Texas

Film of the Week: Chalk

By Jonathan Romney
July 26, 2019
Calling the shots: Rob Nilsson’s 1996 atmospheric pool-hall drama is a crackling gem

Present Tense: Back-ting

By Sheila O'Malley
July 25, 2019
Can’t look away: the nearly lost art of acting with back to the camera

Mothers and Daughters: Honeyland and For Sama

By Imogen Sara Smith
July 24, 2019
Standing witness: two new documentaries find moments of hard-won beauty in difficult times