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Cannes Interview: Jim Jarmusch

By Amy Taubin
May 14, 2019
Eternal return: the director of Cannes-opener The Dead Don’t Die on his postmodern zombie flick

Magic in the Emulsion: The 5th Nitrate Picture Show

By C. Mason Wells
May 14, 2019
Flaming creatures: this year’s celebration of the combustible medium brought long-unseen flickers of light to the screen

Cannes 2019: Preview Part II

By Jordan Cronk
May 13, 2019
Waiting on the day: this year’s festival features work from a promising collection of young directors

News to Me: Campion, Kiarostami, and Doris Day

By Film Comment
May 13, 2019
Fly me to the moon: Wong Kar-wai, Christploitation, and ”little“ magazines

Dispatch: 2019 Tribeca Film Festival

By Amy Taubin
May 10, 2019
High spirits: a handful of exciting documentaries enlivened this year‘s festival

Film of the Week: Pasolini

By Jonathan Romney
May 10, 2019
Leather and lace: it’s unlikely that many will be scandalized, pleasurably or otherwise, by Abel Ferrara’s tribute to the late Italian filmmaker

Higher Learning: Hero Worship

By Christina Svendsen
May 9, 2019
The long shadow: reading the superhero film through Siegfried Kracauer‘s classic text

Interview: José Celestino Campusano

By Jordan Cronk
May 9, 2019
Rough necks: the Argentine filmmaker on how the personal and the political inform his new Men of Hard Skin

Queer and Now and Then: 2011

By Michael Koresky
May 8, 2019
Ring of truth: Dee Rees‘s Pariah shows how the act of looking is as essential to sexual identity as the act of being

The Film Comment Podcast: Olivier Assayas

By Nicolas Rapold
May 8, 2019
The private and the published: the French director on his new film Non-Fiction and how digital culture has transformed society