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Film of the Week: The Third Murder

July 19, 2018

Open to interpretation: Hirokazu Kore-eda’s legal drama about a murder blurs the line between enigmatic and perhaps merely vague

The Film Comment Podcast: Boots Riley and Questlove

By Nicolas Rapold

July 18, 2018

The means of production: the director of Sorry to Bother You talks about his brilliant, bizarre work of pop radicalism, in our latest Film Comment Free Talk

Queer & Now & Then: 1971

By Michael Koresky

July 18, 2018

Organized mutiny: William Greaves’s reflexive landmark Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take One has more than meta-shenanigans on its mind

News to Me: Angela Schanelec, Jim Jarmusch, Ilya Khrzhanovsky

By Chloe Lizotte

July 16, 2018

Missing person report: Schanelec’s next film, Jarmusch undead again and loving it, and world cinema by Ilya Khrzhanovsky

Film of the Week: What Will People Say

By Jonathan Romney

July 13, 2018

Shock of the new: a free-spirited teen girl from an immigrant Muslim family in Norway must learn how to navigate tradition.

Deep Focus: Fred & Ginger

By Michael Sragow

July 12, 2018

Lighter than air: Astaire and Rogers have still got it after all these years, as proven in Film Society’s new complete retrospective

The Film Comment Podcast: Drone Cinema

By Nicolas Rapold

July 11, 2018

Up, up, and awesome: a cinematographer and a critic/programmer debate the potential for a much-maligned new(ish) tool of cinema

Always Gonna Dance

By Robin Wood

July 10, 2018

A classic essay from the archives by the great Robin Wood takes a deeper look at the magic of Fred and Ginger

News to Me: Debra Granik, Mia Hansen-Løve, Claude Lanzmann

By Chloe Lizotte

July 9, 2018

Back into the wild: Debra Granik on her next documentary, upcoming films by Mia Hansen-Løve and Oscar-nominee Feras Fayyad, and more

Film of the Week: Ryuichi Sakamoto: Coda

By Jonathan Romney

July 6, 2018

Symphony of life: a new documentary portrays the eminent composer as an engaging man of ideas (and all the right notes)