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Interview: Dick Pope

By Yonca Talu
January 17, 2019
Blood and horses: the British cinematographer on the strategic maneuvers required to shoot Mike Leigh's historical epic Peterloo.

Queer & Now & Then: 1956

By Michael Koresky
January 16, 2019
A regular fella: Vincente Minnelli's Tea and Sympathy questions definitions of masculinity in what the filmmaker called "the first homosexual picture"

TCM Diary: Butcher, Baker, Nightmare Maker

By Justin Stewart
January 15, 2019
Illegal guardian: Susan Tyrrell plays an uncomfortably possessive aunt in a 1981 cocktail of familial perversity and slasher thrills

Interview: Cameron Bailey

By Nick Davis
January 15, 2019
Time regained: the artistic director of TIFF teleports us to the heady premillennial era with a series of films from 1999

Higher Learning: A Greater Los Angeles

By Laura Isabel Serna and Colin Gunckel
January 14, 2019
New Hollywood: Mexican-born critic and playwright Gabriel Navarro brought together a rich world of uniquely Mexican-American culture in the first decades of the 20th century

The Film Comment Podcast: The Rep Report #4

By Nicolas Rapold
January 11, 2019
The naked truth: we look at the MoMA's To Save and Project series, Anthology's city symphony survey, and more in our latest edition

Film of the Week: The Heiresses

By Jonathan Romney
January 11, 2019
Rearranging the deckchairs: two middle-aged Paraguayan women cling to a semblance of respectable society amidst dysfunction

Film Comment Selects 2019 Lineup Announced

By Nicolas Rapold
January 10, 2019
World of cinema: the latest edition of the magazine's regular showcase features films by Steven Soderbergh, Laszlo Nemes, Jerry Schatzberg, and more

Deep Focus: Buffalo Boys

By Michael Sragow
January 10, 2019
Fighting mad: two brothers take mighty vengeance on an imperialist villain in a kinetic Indonesian action adventure

Interview: Nëil Beloufa

By Jordan Cronk
January 9, 2019
Not here to make friends: the director of Occidental talks about using the lurid customs of reality television to create new art