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Film of the Week: Rojo

By Jonathan Romney

July 12, 2019

Disappearing act: thinking you know where you are with Benjamín Naishtat’s latest can lead you up the wrong path

Present Tense: What Happened Was…

By Sheila O'Malley

July 11, 2019

Alone together: Tom Noonan’s two-hander is an unblinking look at the havoc loneliness can wreak on humans

The Film Comment Podcast: Ari Aster on Midsommar

By Nicolas Rapold

July 10, 2019

All in the family: the filmmaker sits down to talk about his latest, one of the summer’s most anticipated movies

Feeling Seen: Whose Apocalypse Now?

By Phuong Le

July 9, 2019

Adrift in history: much of Apocalypse Now portrays Vietnam as a spectacular but soulless backdrop for moral ruminations

News to Me: Tarantino, Almodóvar, and If….

By Film Comment

July 8, 2019

School’s out: Shelley Duvall, Chernobyl, and Hoberman in ’68

Deep Focus: Spider-Man: Far from Home

By Michael Sragow

July 5, 2019

Class trip: the latest entry in the webslinger saga is a witty and fun leap forward

Film of the Week: Marianne & Leonard: Words of Love

By Jonathan Romney

July 4, 2019

True love leaves no traces: Nick Broomfield’s documentary reflects on the complex relationship between an artist and a muse

Queer & Now & Then: 1935

By Michael Koresky

July 3, 2019

Red alert: the discomforts of George Cukor’s Sylvia Scarlett are precisely what have given the film its longevity as an object of curiosity and affection

The Film Comment Podcast: Queer & Now & Then

By Nicolas Rapold

July 3, 2019

Identity, history, cinema: Melissa Anderson, Mark Harris, Michael Koresky, Wesley Morris, and Farihah Zaman on queerness in cinema and film criticism

TCM Diary: The Chemistry Set

By Sheila O'Malley

July 2, 2019

Explosive combinations: the elective affinities at work in Jack Conway’s Love Crazy and George Stevens’s The More the Merrier