Framed: Kelly Reichardt, Kent Jones, and Lucio Castro join from NYFF63 to discuss the temporality of cinema versus the other arts, the challenge of being a working artist, and the exquisite craft behind their new films
By José Teodoro Fire fights: highlights of this year’s festival, like Below the Clouds, Dead Man’s Wire, and Sacrifice reflected the anxious and violent status quo of our times
The Film Comment Podcast: Venice 2025 #6
Walk on by: Guy Lodge and and Öykü Sofuoğlu join to discuss Duse, Remake, The Voice of Hind Rajab, and more
By Phillip Vance Smith, II Prison films: Phillip Vance Smith, II reflects on how movies like Life, Penitentiary, and Sing Sing portray life behind bars
Break like the wind: the legendary British rockers are joined by their longtime creative foil, filmmaker Marty DiBergi, to discuss their long, loud career
Field reports: films like Cover-Up, Landmarks, and The Voice of Hind Rajab pierced through the festival’s illusive bubble with lightning bolts of reality
Rock of ages: critics Savina Petkova and Jordan Mintzer join to discuss Benny Safdie's The Smashing Machine, Lucrecia Martel's Nuestra Tierra (Landmarks), and more
War report: intimate and epic, My Undesirable Friends: Part One follows a small cohort of oppositional journalists in Putin’s Russia during the run-up to the military invasion of Ukraine
Video life: many of the best films at this year’s festival—including Blue Heron, God Will Not Help, and Dry Leaf—explored the imperfect nature of recollection
