Friends and allies: Jodie Foster's Home for the Holidays is a Thanksgiving classic that understands deeply the comfort and the harm that family can offer
This time it’s personal: with Hirokazu Kore-eda’s immensely moving Shoplifters opening in theaters, the Film Comment Podcast looks at films about that fragile thing known as family.
Feast and famine: the director of A Bread Factory and The Grief of Others talks about his richly conceived works, self-distribution, Tyne Daly, independent film, and more