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In Memoriam: Jonathan Demme

By Film Comment

April 27, 2017

Remembering the director of Stop Making Sense, Something Wild, and Silence of the Lambs

The Film Comment Podcast: Art of the Real 2017

By Film Comment

April 26, 2017

Who's there? An audio essay on three boundary-pushing films from the festival of nonfiction

Cinema ’67 Revisited: Two for the Road

By Mark Harris

April 26, 2017

Ambivalently yours: Stanley Donen's sweet and sour study of an uncertain marriage is realized with sophistication

TCM Diary: The Great Man

By Steven Mears

April 21, 2017

One for the history books: José Ferrer directs and stars in a newsroom drama about a journalist who refuses to simply print the legend of a wholesome broadcaster

Interview: Theo Anthony

By Lauren Du Graf

April 20, 2017

The maze runners: the director of Rat Film and Werner Herzog's Rogue Film School grad on getting to the divided heart of Baltimore

Deep Focus: Obit

By Michael Sragow

April 20, 2017

Rest in print: Vanessa Gould’s portrait of the New York Times obituary team reveals the creativity behind memorial-making

Tonka of the Gallows (1930)

By Farran Smith Nehme

April 19, 2017

Heart of gold: a not-quite silent Czech film explores the fall (and fall) of a country girl gone bad

The Film Comment Podcast: The Classical

By Film Comment

April 18, 2017

Throwback jams: does James Gray’s The Lost City of Z fit the mold of cinema’s golden era? (And what does that mean—or matter—anyway?)

Holy Seeing: The Vatican on Screen

By Giovanni Vimercati

April 17, 2017

Easter eggs: surveying some Vatican films in Italian cinema in the wake of The Young Pope

Film of the Week: By the Time It Gets Dark

By Jonathan Romney

April 13, 2017

Generations: excavating and recreating historical trauma, Anocha Suwichakornpong's formally daring feature moves between time and emotion