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A Year on the Couch

By Jonathan Romney
June 21, 2021
Primal screen therapy: during the COVID-era, television series provided a coherent purposefulness that was otherwise missing from everyday life

Hiding in Plain Sight

By Mayukh Sen
June 21, 2021
Out of the past: Merle Oberon endures in public memory because of the secrets she had to hide, but her work deserves reassessment

The Film Comment Podcast: Movie Doubles

By Film Comment
June 15, 2021
Oh you again: critics K. Austin Collins and Mayukh Sen join to discuss some of our favorite doppelgänger films

Film Comment Recommends: Slow Machine

By Tyler Wilson
June 14, 2021
This mortal coil: the new microbudget “thriller” is a shape-shifting fever dream of a film

Seeing Double: Bad Timing & Winter Light

By Molly Haskell
June 14, 2021
Through a glass darkly: the critic finds strange exhilaration in a particularly daunting pair of movies

Beyond Representation: An Interview with Genevieve Yue

By Mackenzie Lukenbill
June 14, 2021
Hidden pattern: Yue discusses her book Girl Head: Feminism and Film Materiality, which explores the material erasure of women in cinema

The Film Comment Podcast: NYFF58 Redux

By Film Comment
June 9, 2021
Second chances: Dan Sullivan and Steve Macfarlane join to discuss a summer program offering a big-screen redo of the 2020 festival

Film Comment Recommends: This Is Not My Music

By Clinton Krute
June 7, 2021
Pocket symphony: a 1978 documentary about Don Cherry captures the working life of an artist who never stopped moving

Review: The Disciple

By Phuong Le
June 7, 2021
Master and man: in Chaitanya Tamhane’s meditative drama, an aspiring musician finds himself at a crossroads between mediocrity and monastic commitment

Angel of History

By Devika Girish
June 7, 2021
In the drink: Undine reenergizes the recursive motifs of Christian Petzold's oeuvre while also sharpening his longstanding interest in history and capitalism