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Interview: Joanna Hogg

By Nicolas Rapold
February 4, 2019
Drama in small things: the director of Sundance standout The Souvenir on autobiography and subverting narrative expectations

Sundance Dispatch: Clemency

By Devika Girish
February 4, 2019
Framing the guilty: Chinonye Chukwu’s film features an extraordinary performance by Alfre Woodard as a conflicted prison warden

Deep Focus: Miss Bala

By Michael Sragow
February 1, 2019
A new glossy remake is the first feasible argument for our southern neighbor to pay for building a wall: to keep Hollywood hacks out of the country.

Interview: Shengze Zhu

By Becca Voelcker
February 1, 2019
On display: the filmmaker on the world of Chinese live-streaming culture she explores in the Rotterdam award-winner Present.Perfect.

Waste Lands: Sunset and A Fortunate Man

By Imogen Sara Smith
February 1, 2019
Bright lights, big city: Two films explode, in very different ways, an age-old narrative trope

Film of the Week: Los Reyes

By Jonathan Romney
February 1, 2019
Kings of their world: a doc about two dogs and a skate park reveals the accretion of remarkable details that make up daily life

The Film Comment Podcast: Sundance 2019 Six

By Nicolas Rapold
January 31, 2019
Like bees to honey: guests Eric Hynes and Devika Girish on their under-the-radar festival highlights

Sundance Dispatch: America

By Devika Girish
January 31, 2019
Parallel histories: Garrett Bradley's remarkable short interrogates representations of early Black filmmakers

Interview: Jennifer Kent

By Devika Girish
January 30, 2019
Love in dark times: The Nightingale director on bringing together distinct (but connected) narratives of gendered and racist violence

The Film Comment Podcast: Sundance 2019 Five

By Nicolas Rapold
January 30, 2019
Solidarity forever: guests Manohla Dargis and Amy Taubin speak out on highlights from a week in Park City