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The Film Comment Podcast: Greta Gerwig and Little Women

By Nicolas Rapold
January 2, 2020
Fresh perspectives: Amy Taubin and Devika Girish join for a rousing discussion of Gerwig’s triumphant adaptation

Film of the Week: Little Women

By Jonathan Romney
December 25, 2019
All in the family: Greta Gerwig brings a nuanced sensitivity and shrewd reframing to Louisa May Alcott's beloved novel

Phantom Light: Portrait of a Lady on Fire and Little Women

By Imogen Sara Smith
December 23, 2019
Sisters and lovers: two new movies dwell on the emotional bonds between women, and on the choice—or lack thereof—of life paths offered to them

News to Me: Jean-Luc Godard, Agnès Varda, and Adam Sandler

By James Wham
December 23, 2019
Man on the street: Yorgos Lanthimos, Peter Wollen, and the Berlinale

Deep Focus: Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker

By Michael Sragow
December 20, 2019
Lost in space: J.J. Abrams’s nonsensical film contains so many resurrections it’s a wonder the release wasn't pushed back to Easter

Film of the Week: Invisible Life

By Jonathan Romney
December 19, 2019
Saturation point: the colors of Karim Aïnouz’s melodrama ebb and flow in a delirious tide of euphoria and solemnity

Present Tense: Sophia Takal’s Small Moments

By Sheila O'Malley
December 19, 2019
I’ll be your mirror: the refreshing honesty of the Black Christmas filmmaker’s depiction of identity

Queer & Now & Then: 1910-2009

By Michael Koresky
December 18, 2019
Bah, humbug: in the many versions of A Christmas Carol, the Ghost of Christmas Past has rarely been portrayed as a properly gender-less character

The Film Comment Podcast: The Decade Project #3

By Nicolas Rapold
December 18, 2019
Building character: Shonni Enelow and Michael Koresky join to discuss acting and performance in the 2010s

Interview: Agnieszka Holland

By Yonca Talu
December 17, 2019
Truth and consequences: the filmmaker on her latest, Mr. Jones, about a heroic journalist and a brutal state apparatus