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Interview: Yervant Gianikian

By Jordan Cronk

April 24, 2020

Soul singer: one half of a filmmaking team pays tribute to his departed partner and collaborator of over four decades

Film of the Week: A White, White Day

By Jonathan Romney

April 23, 2020

Frozen warnings: Hlynur Pálmason’s Icelandic drama is a stark psychological thriller that unpicks its hero’s troubled soul with forensic coolness

Queer & Now & Then: 1964

By Michael Koresky

April 22, 2020

Primal scream: Flaming Creatures, Jack Smith’s spectacle of intense queer desire, is one of the most beautiful of all experimental films

TCM Diary: Marie: A True Story and A World Apart

By Michael Sragow

April 21, 2020

Bursting bubbles: Sissy Spacek and Barbara Hershey star in two exemplary ’80s films about resourceful women standing up for their beliefs

News to Me: John Smith, John Berger, and Jean-Luc Godard

By James Wham

April 20, 2020

Tides of time: film criticism in crisis, Sarah Maldoror, and The Fabulous Baron Munchausen

Film of the Week: Santiago, Italia

By Jonathan Romney

April 16, 2020

Walls and bridges: Nanni Moretti’s documentary is a straight, though moving, account of the refugees sheltered by the Italian embassy following the 1973 coup in Chile

Interview: Nadège Trebal

By Nicholas Elliott

April 14, 2020

Long kiss goodnight: the director of the madcap Twelve Thousand on her radically imaginative take on love and sex under late capitalism

The Film Comment Podcast: At Home #15

By Nicolas Rapold

April 13, 2020

Mano a mano: critic/programmers Ashley Clark and Eric Hynes join to discuss the present and future of cinema-going, and what they’ve been watching at home

News to Me: Bruce Baillie, David Lynch, and Pedro Almodóvar

By James Wham

April 13, 2020

In the flow: Claire Denis, High Maintenance, and the ongoing streaming takeover

Film of the Week: The Platform

By Jonathan Romney

April 10, 2020

Trickle-down economics: the class system takes visceral form in a Spanish dystopian horror film