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Interview: Nanfu Wang and Jialing Zhang

By Devika Girish

August 12, 2019

Family matters: the directors of One Child Nation on the psychological workings—and vestiges—of the decades-long Chinese policy

Deep Focus: Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark

By Michael Sragow

August 9, 2019

Losing heads: the Guillermo del Toro–produced adaptation of the popular children's series recreates the visceral impact of the original, but tames its absurdity

Feeling Seen: A Day of Us

By Jaime Grijalba

August 8, 2019

Animal magnetism: a Korean animated web-series touches upon the small truths of living with a partner

Present Tense: Out of the Blue

By Sheila O'Malley

August 8, 2019

Into the black: Dennis Hopper's doom-ridden, death-stalked film takes punk rock at its word

Film of the Week: The Cremator

By Jonathan Romney

August 8, 2019

Danse macabre: Juraj Herz's bracingly modern, anti-realist film lies on the delicate border between horror and social satire

The Film Comment Podcast: The Rep Report #9

By Nicolas Rapold

August 7, 2019

Brave new world: a series at Film at Lincoln Center looks at America through the eyes of artists born abroad

Dispatch: Karlovy Vary 2019

By Nick Pinkerton

August 6, 2019

Free at last: old specters returned to haunt this year's edition of the Czech festival

News to Me: NYFF57, Mati Diop, and Toni Morrison

By Film Comment

August 6, 2019

Beginnings and ends: the return of Pedro Costa, the vagaries of the movie-theater business, and the pleasures of durational cinema

Deep Focus: The Operative and Piranhas

By Michael Sragow

August 2, 2019

Adapting to the times: two intelligent though uninspired genre movies streamline events that play out more lucidly in their source books

Higher Learning: Chromatic Modernity

By Sarah Street and Joshua Yumibe

August 2, 2019

Technicolor dreams: our modern sense of color as a standardized commodity is intertwined with the history of cinema