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Interview: André Novais Oliveira & Grace Passô

By Ela Bittencourt

March 29, 2019

Edge of the city: the director and lead actor of Long Way Home on the difficulties facing black filmmakers in Brazil

Playlist: The Films of William Ferris

By Clinton Krute

March 28, 2019

Blues connotations: the music of the rural South in the rough-hewn documentaries of William Ferris

The Film Comment Podcast: The Rep Report #6

By Nicolas Rapold

March 28, 2019

A very curious girl: Chris Wells and Nellie Killian join to discuss the long-overlooked Nelly Kaplan, Fay Wray and Robert Riskin, and more

Higher Learning: Labeling Black Unbankable

By Maryann Erigha

March 28, 2019

Split ticket: how Hollywood insiders socially construct audiences by strategically targeting specific racial demographics

Queer & Now & Then: 1940

By Michael Koresky

March 27, 2019

Dignified options: Dorothy Arzner's Dance, Girl, Dance is a case study for how Hollywood comedy could convey vivid queerness beneath a seemingly formula exterior

ND/NF Voices: Honeyland, Joy, End of the Century

By Naomi Keenan O'Shea

March 27, 2019

Three's company: the filmmakers behind standouts from ND/NF chat about their films

Interview: Mark Jenkin

By Chloe Lizotte

March 27, 2019

Fresh catch: the rough-hewn Bait keenly portrays a displaced and reconfigured working-class community in coastal Britain

Review: Us

By Ina Diane Archer

March 26, 2019

Return of the repressed: Jordan Peele's latest throws the audience into a house of mirrors

TCM Diary: The Decks Ran Red

By Justin Stewart

March 26, 2019

Red skies at dawn: Dorothy Dandridge and James Mason star in a tale of bloody mutiny on the high seas

News to Me: Larry Cohen, Wong Kar-wai, and the Criterion Channel

By Film Comment

March 25, 2019

The stuff of nightmare: Scott Walker, Wang Bing, and infrastructure week