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TCM Diary: Coma

April 7, 2020

It’s serious: Michael Crichton’s 1978 smash is a brisk, scary, clever thriller about a body-snatching scam featuring a magnetic Genevieve Bujold

The Film Comment Podcast: At Home #12

By Nicolas Rapold

April 6, 2020

Hey now: critic Jonathan Romney calls in from London to discuss the movies—and TV—that he’s been watching of late

News to Me: Frederick Wiseman, Jean-Marie Straub, and Saving Art-Houses

By James Wham

April 6, 2020

Shock and awe: Richard Kelly’s Southland Tales, Isiah Medina, and SXSW online

Interview: Mohammad Rasoulof

By Amir Ganjavie

April 3, 2020

The space between: the director of the Golden Bear-winning There Is No Evil on navigating censorship and weaving together multiple stories about present-day Iran

Film of the Week: The Other Lamb

By Jonathan Romney

April 3, 2020

Gather ’round children: Malgorzata Szumowska’s horror flick is presented handsomely but is frustrating in its lack of specificity

The Film Comment Podcast: True/False 2020

By Nicolas Rapold

April 2, 2020

Face off: our annual, rowdy roundtable from the sui generis festival, featuring filmmakers Sky Hopinka and Daniel Hymanson, critic Dessane Lopez Cassell, and many more

Feeling Seen: Song of the Exile

By Phoebe Chen

April 1, 2020

Family ties: Ann Hui’s 1990 family drama is striking in the way it parcels out knowledge of cultural history as a gradual, lived revelation

In Memoriam: Stuart Gordon

By Chris Shields

April 1, 2020

From beyond: the director of Re-Animator leaves behind a varied and endlessly imaginative body of work

The Film Comment Podcast: At Home #11

By Nicolas Rapold

March 31, 2020

Eyes on the prize: Brazil-based critic Ela Bittencourt on the current situation in that country along with recent watches Bacurau, Mani Kaul’s Our Daily Bread, and more

The Film Comment Podcast: At Home #10

By Nicolas Rapold

March 30, 2020

Blow out: Nadav Lapid, director of Synonyms, calls in to talk about working on his next feature under the current circumstances