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News to Me: Pauline Kael, Ken Jacobs, and Peter Whitehead

By Film Comment
June 17, 2019
People like you: censorship, critics, and Ava DuVernay

Film of the Week: Give Me Liberty

By Jonathan Romney
June 14, 2019
Democratic vistas: Kirill Mikhanovsky’s film is relentless and exhausting—but it’s also a joyous, tender blast

Ken Jacobs’s The Sky Socialist

By Amy Taubin
June 14, 2019
The man upstairs: after roughly 55 years, the filmmaker has completed work on his legendary ode to Ferry Street

Feeling Seen: Edward Yang’s Yi Yi

By Lawrence Garcia
June 13, 2019
Mirror of nature: how shifting languages and dialects evoke the personal and political in Yang's family epic

Present Tense: Rolling Thunder Revue

By Sheila O'Malley
June 12, 2019
I contain multitudes: on Dylan, Whitman, and Scorsese’s new Rolling Thunder Revue documentary

The Film Comment Podcast: The Rep Report #8

By Nicolas Rapold
June 12, 2019
Keep on pushing: a series at Film Forum looks at works from around the world that moved cinema and politics in new directions

Interview: Bertrand Bonello

By Jordan Cronk
June 11, 2019
Dead or alive: the director of Zombi Child on voodoo, the oneiric, and his use of music

Festivals: Oberhausen

By Tina Poglajen
June 10, 2019
Short of time: the 65th edition of the festival returns to its roots of radical cinema politics while simultaneously contradicting them

News to Me: Terrence Malick, Sandi Tan, and Barry Jenkins

By Film Comment
June 10, 2019
Rough waters: Elaine May, the first women filmmakers, and the symbolism of Jordan Peele’s Us

Deep Focus: Dark Phoenix

By Michael Sragow
June 7, 2019
Smells like teen spirit: the latest entry in the X-Men saga relies on the tropes of Young Adult fiction