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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

News to Me: Mike Leigh, Raúl Ruiz, and women in science fiction

By Film Comment
April 8, 2019
Space is the place: Claire Denis everywhere, William Kentridge, and multiple Pasolinis

Film of the Week: The Wind

By Jonathan Romney
April 5, 2019
Home on the range: Emma Tammi's new movie blends horror and Western genre elements, not always successfully

Classified: TV Movies

By April Wolfe
April 4, 2019
A tale as old as TV: John Llewellyn Moxey and the pre-streaming threat of the TV movie

The Film Comment Podcast: This Is What Democracy Looks Like

By Nicolas Rapold
April 3, 2019
On the march: what films like Peterloo and Us have to say about the messy process of collective governance

Deep Focus: Christ Stopped at Eboli

By Michael Sragow
April 3, 2019
Down to earth: in Francesco Rosi's political epic, an archetypal fish out of water comes to feel at home on very dry land

Feeling Seen: Midnight in Paris

By Kelli Weston
April 2, 2019
Big night: Midnight in Paris documents the run-up to prom night at a majority-black public school, and finds promise in the banal

Interview: Burak Çevik

By Yonca Talu
April 1, 2019
Crime and punishment: Belonging, screening April 4 at ND/NF, rises above psychological and moral judgments to navigate the complexity of family history

News to Me: Andy Warhol, a single Coen, and farewell to Agnès

By Film Comment
April 1, 2019
The body electric: Ingmar Bergman, climate change, and the transgender politics of The Matrix

Film of the Week: Diane

By Jonathan Romney
March 29, 2019
Not dark yet: Kent Jones's Diane is an altogether sober film, a drama about ageing that is nothing less than ice-water unsentimental