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Day by Day

November 17, 2025

Portraits in life: Ira Sachs’s Peter Hujar’s Day, a not-quite-biopic about the renowned photographer, finds its magic in the mundane

Tender Pains

By Ayanna Dozier

November 17, 2025

Suffering embraces: Angelo Madsen’s feature documentary A Body to Live In and Tiona Nekkia McClodden’s video installations explore sadomasochism through a soft and attentive lens

The Film Comment Podcast: Tokyo International Film Festival 2025

By Film Comment

November 14, 2025

Taking the stage: a stellar rotation of critics explore the lineup of one of Asia’s major film events

Interview: Lynne Ramsay on Die My Love

By Devika Girish

November 10, 2025

In spite of ourselves: the Scottish auteur discusses her latest, a typically precise portrait of an inscrutable character

Ken and Flo Jacobs: A Love Story

By David Schwartz

November 10, 2025

Eternalisms: a tribute to the indefatigable husband and wife pair, whose art was a neverending process of revelation

Interview: Mary Stephen on Ombres de soie and Palimpsest

By Yuka Murakami

October 27, 2025

Rewriting the past: the Hong Kong-born, Paris based filmmaker and editor reflects on her first and latest features

Interview: Arturo Ripstein

By Nicolas Pedrero-Setzer

October 27, 2025

Realms of fortune: the legendary Mexican filmmaker discusses his sixty-year plus career

The Film Comment Podcast: Paul Thomas Anderson’s One Battle After Another

By Film Comment

October 24, 2025

What time is it?: critics and programmers Miriam Bale and Adam Piron join to discuss PTA’s latest's successes and failures, how it fits into his larger body of work, and more

Time Has Told Me

By Clinton Krute

October 20, 2025

Paint work: Kelly Reichardt's The Mastermind is fun and funny, but it also just might be her most chilling portrait of America to date

The Aging Artist

By Molly Haskell

October 20, 2025

Once more?: Jay Kelly, Late Fame, and Is This Thing On? ask whether their protagonists have the energy and motivation to continue