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Present Tense: Jean Arthur

By Sheila O'Malley

March 19, 2020

Earth angel: the actress who helped define classic Hollywood comedy possessed an extraordinary voice

The Film Comment Podcast: At Home #3

By Nicolas Rapold

March 19, 2020

Another green world: Soraya Nadia McDonald joins to discuss Kathleen Collins’s Losing Ground, Matt Wolf’s Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project, and—why not?—Legally Blonde

Excerpt from I Seem to Live. The New York Diaries, vol. 1

By Jonas Mekas

March 18, 2020

Read an exclusive selection from Jonas Mekas's recently published diaries, spanning his arrival in New York and his first Bolex camera

The Film Comment Podcast: At Home #2

By Nicolas Rapold

March 18, 2020

Don’t look back: Michael Koresky joins to discuss comfort movies, including Vertigo, Desperately Seeking Susan, and many more

The Film Comment Podcast: At Home #1

By Nicolas Rapold

March 17, 2020

Remote viewing: on the first of a new series of homebound podcasts, we discuss Věra Chytilová’s Daisies and other streaming picks

News to Me: Social Distancing, Cancellations, and Streaming

By James Wham

March 16, 2020

Alone together: how the film world is coping with COVID-19 and its consequences

Film of the Week: The Cloud in Her Room

By Jonathan Romney

March 13, 2020

Feet on the ground: Zheng Lu Xinyuan’s free-associative, diaristic debut is worth waiting for

The Film Comment Podcast: Bacurau

By Nicolas Rapold

March 13, 2020

In the soup: Ela Bittencourt joins to discuss the blistering new film from Kleber Mendonça Filho and Juliano Dornelles

Deep Focus: The Hunt

By Michael Sragow

March 12, 2020

The great divide: you can’t keep a canny exploitation movie down, and this one has a hook that’s a doozy

Interview: Juliette Binoche

By Nicolas Rapold

March 12, 2020

Unvarnished: the actress expounds on her role opposite Catherine Deneuve in Hirokazu Kore-eda’s The Truth