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The Film Comment Podcast: Cinema of the Rice Cooker

By Film Comment
July 15, 2025
Let them cook: Phoebe Chen, Bedatri Datta Choudhury, and Joseph Hernandez join to discuss the humble household appliance’s enduring on-screen appeal

Interview: John Smith on Being John Smith

By James Lattimer
July 14, 2025
Name game: the renowned British experimental filmmaker speaks about his latest, a politically charged and cheekily playful essay film

Il Cinema Ritrovato 2025: Hot Bologna Nights

By Beatrice Loayza
July 14, 2025
On fire: at this year’s edition of the festival devoted to rediscoveries and restorations, distinctions between high and low art dissolved into the heat of the air

From Cell to Screenplay: Finding My Voice Behind Bars

By Kwaneta Harris
July 7, 2025
New scene: the incarcerated journalist shares her painstaking journey to teach herself screenwriting in prison

Structural Integrity

By Swagato Chakravorty
July 7, 2025
Circuit cities: the Mumbai-based collaborative art studio CAMP experiments with media technology in playful and political ways

The Film Comment Podcast: Summer New Releases

By Film Comment
July 3, 2025
Start your engines: critics Alana Pockros and Adam Nayman join to discuss F1, Materialists, 28 Years Later, and more

Animal Magnetism

By Erika Balsom
June 30, 2025
Bull in the heather: Albert Serra‘s challenging and visceral portrait of a matador is one of the year’s best films

Modern Love

By Guy Lodge
June 30, 2025
Walks beside me: an inclusive, elastic understanding of modern queer lives emerges across Dag Johan Haugerud’s Sex/Dreams/Love trilogy

The Film Comment Podcast: GriGris with Malcolm Harris and Anselm Kizza-Besigye

By Film Comment
June 25, 2025
Fire escapes: the acclaimed author joins to discuss Mahamat-Saleh Haroun’s 2013 thriller, cinematic portrayals of the climate crisis, and more

Tribeca 2025: Bigger Than the Screen

By Amy Taubin
June 23, 2025
Heroes and villains: the festival largely made good on its promise to show socially relevant works from independent and early-career filmmakers