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The Film Comment Podcast: At Home #14

By Nicolas Rapold
April 8, 2020
Desperate times: critics David Bordwell and Imogen Sara Smith call in to discuss Japanese cinema, Douglas Sirk, Christian Petzold, Godard on Instagram, and more

Queer & Now & Then: 1965

By Michael Koresky
April 8, 2020
Brief encounter: Andy Milligan’s Vapors radiates passion, spontaneity, and a genuine drive that are unfakeable

The Film Comment Podcast: At Home #13

By Nicolas Rapold
April 7, 2020
Through the wire: critic-programmers Nellie Killian and Ed Halter on the Cinema Worker Solidarity Fund and the view from their bunkers

TCM Diary: Coma

By Michael Sragow
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