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Toronto Interview: Tim Sutton

By Amy Taubin
September 7, 2018
Fighting chance: the director of Donnybrook paints a grim vision of rural America through winner-takes-all cage-matches

Deep Focus: John McEnroe: In the Realm of Perfection

By Michael Sragow
September 6, 2018
Permanent matchpoint: a film assembled from 16mm footage posits the volatile genius of a temperamental tennis star

Interview: Ognjen Glavonic

By Eric Hynes
September 6, 2018
Keep the motor running: The Load, showing in Toronto, charts an ominous road trip that shows the universal burden of war

Venice Interview: Mike Leigh

By Nicolas Rapold
September 5, 2018
Vox populi: Peterloo shows the perilous struggle behind an 1819 democratic protest for voting rights in an era of crushing inequality

The Film Comment Podcast: Venice

By Nicolas Rapold
September 5, 2018
Total cinema: our editor-in-chief reports from the venerable festival on ROMA and other essential fall films

Festivals: Venice

By Nicolas Rapold
September 5, 2018
Old hands: the usual distractions of the hype industry on the Lido fortunately can't obscure true grit

Venice Film of the Week: ROMA

By Jonathan Romney
August 31, 2018
Family portrait: Alfonso Cuarón re-creates the past on a grand yet intimate scale through the eyes of a Mexico City housekeeper

The Film Comment Podcast: Great Debuts, Still Masters

By Nicolas Rapold
August 30, 2018
We discuss Terence Davies and other filmmakers who started out seemingly fully formed

Film of the Week: Let the Corpses Tan

By Jonathan Romney
August 30, 2018
Shots fired: Hélène Cattet and Bruno Forzani orchestrate another bravura comic-strip-like exercise in turbo-charged style and retro fetish

Queer & Now & Then: 1989

By Michael Koresky
August 29, 2018
Deliver me: Derek Jarman’s War Requiem illuminated hidden histories of feeling as it shone a light on the ravages of war