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Why Sam Shepard Has “The Right Stuff”

By Philip Kaufman

August 4, 2017

An appreciation of the playwright/actor/screenwriter by the writer/director of The Right Stuff

Deep Focus: Wind River

By Michael Sragow

August 3, 2017

Adrift: actor-turned-screenwriter Taylor Sheridan tries his hand at directing again, with mixed results

Cinema ’67 Revisited: The Exterminating Angel

By Mark Harris

August 2, 2017

Up all night to get lucky: Luis Buñuel’s surrealist yarn about aristocrats unable to leave a room is truly timeless

The Film Comment Podcast: Yvonne Rainer

By Film Comment

August 1, 2017

Talking pictures: an interview with the landmark experimental filmmaker, choreographer, and poet

Deep Focus: Detroit

By Michael Sragow

July 28, 2017

Riot act: Kathryn Bigelow’s dramatization of the city’s 1967 riots offers a complex if imperfect commentary on race and authority in America

The Film Comment Podcast: Good Time

By Film Comment

July 27, 2017

Street theater: a post-screening discussion with the Safdie Brothers, Ronald Bronstein, and Robert Pattinson about their New York thriller

Festivals: Il Cinema Ritrovato 2017

By Dan Sullivan

July 27, 2017

Canon fodder: restorations of under-appreciated directors Med Hondo and Helmut Käutner blessed Bologna’s screens

Film of the Week: Columbus

By Jonathan Romney

July 27, 2017

Lines of sight: video essayist Kogonada’s debut feature celebrates the beauty of everyday wonder

NYAFF: Hong Kong’s Eric Tsang

By Daniel Eagan

July 25, 2017

Dramatic tendencies: the Golden Harvest director and Lifetime Achievement Award honoree at New York Asian Film Festival discusses his latest role in Mad World

Art/Form: Fulci’s Brush with Death

By Chris Shields

July 24, 2017

Written in blood: Italian avant-garde art and Lucio Fulci’s gutsy horror, together at last (with a dash of Bava)