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Feeling Seen: Mi familia

By Carlos Valladares
April 16, 2019
Learning to see: a reflection on a family's complex relationship with moving images

Playlist: Ennio Morricone

By Clinton Krute
April 15, 2019
Sensing a theme: listen to two curated mixes drawn from the composer's expansive body of work

News to Me: Béla Tarr, Věra Chytilová, and Seymour Cassel

By Film Comment
April 15, 2019
The face I dreamt of: Her Smell, Oliver Reed, and guides to the streaming boom

Interview: Rashid Johnson

By Tayler Montague
April 12, 2019
Son of man: the director of Native Son on bringing the iconic novel to the screen

Film of the Week: Long Day’s Journey Into Night

By Jonathan Romney
April 12, 2019
In dreams: Bi Gan's noir fable abandons narrative transparency in favor of a poetic dream logic

Deep Focus: Shazam!

By Michael Sragow
April 11, 2019
Kid's stuff: after decades of portentous superhero movies, a little frivolousness can be recharging

Feeling Seen: We Need to Talk About Us

By K. Austin Collins and Devika Girish
April 10, 2019
Face off: a conversation about Jordan Peele’s Us and issues of horror, race, class, and criticism itself

Queer & Now & Then: 1966

By Michael Koresky
April 10, 2019
Two of a kind: if looked at through the right queer lens, Bergman's Persona could be among the most penetrating break-up movies ever made

The Film Comment Podcast: New Directors/New Films 2019

By Nicolas Rapold
April 10, 2019
Fresh perspective: a look back at the 2019 ND/NF and its slate of films about life on the margins

Dispatch: Qumra 2019

By Jordan Cronk
April 8, 2019
New age: Kiyoshi Kurosawa, Alice Rohrwacher, and VR and its discontents at the Doha Film Institute's industry summit in Qatar