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Review: Pain and Glory

March 22, 2019

Time regained: Almodóvar’s latest is a heart-rending, meditative, and deeply confessional culmination of his prolonged immersion in the waters of autofiction

Film of the Week: Dragged Across Concrete

By Jonathan Romney

March 22, 2019

The thin blue line: S. Craig Zahler’s brutally violent cop film surfaces uncomfortable questions about racism, power, and complicity

Interview: Jerry Schatzberg

By Christina Newland

March 21, 2019

Parklife: the director of Panic in Needle Park and Scarecrow on his long career depicting the emotional lives of those on the margins

The Film Comment Podcast: High Life and Beyond

By Nicolas Rapold

March 20, 2019

Blast off: Nick Pinkerton and Madeline Whittle guest for a deep space exploration of Claire Denis's latest and how it fits into her body of work

Interview: Sofia Bohdanowicz & Deragh Campbell

By Jordan Cronk

March 19, 2019

It's relative: the directors of MS Slavic 7 on the use of biography and the strange experience of playing a version of your director on screen

Interview: Jeffrey Peixoto

By Nicolas Rapold

March 18, 2019

Stress test: the director of the Scientology doc Over the Rainbow on religion, horror, and the film's fully realized audiovisual environment

News to Me: Barbara Hammer, Nelly Kaplan, and Archives Aplenty

By Film Comment

March 18, 2019

Wild things: Penelope Spheeris, a short from Claire Denis and Olafur Eliasson, and more

Deep Focus: The Mustang

By Michael Sragow

March 15, 2019

A man and his horse: Laure de Clermont-Tonnerre’s first feature offers an uneven slice of life, cut with a shiv

Film of the Week: Combat Obscura

By Jonathan Romney

March 15, 2019

Combat fatigue: Miles Lagoze’s Afghanistan documentary shows the boredom and brutality of endless war

Review: The Juniper Tree

By Mark Asch

March 14, 2019

Child of nature: an Icelandic fairy tale about a young woman, played by a 20-year-old Björk, conjures a world from the Brothers Grimm