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Come to My Window

Smooth surfaces: despite its dazzling technical conceit, Robert Zemeckis‘s Here is conspicuously thin
Read Genevieve Yue's Essay

The Film Comment Podcast: Payal Kapadia and Miguel Gomes

Long journeys: the two auteurs discuss their latest films, both city symphonies that center love stories within broader political contexts
Listen to the conversation

Sounds of Freedom

The long march: Johan Grimonprez's Soundtrack to a Coup D'Etat is a grim, exciting history lesson that announces itself with percussive fanfare
Read J. Hoberman's Essay

How to Do Things with Words

By Jawni Han
Translation games: Hong Sangsoo's A Traveler‘s Needs explores how communication across languages can be both obfuscating and revelatory

The Film Comment Podcast: Julianne Moore on The Room Next Door

Artificial heart: the great American actress discusses her role in the latest from Pedro Almodóvar, which co-stars Tilda Swinton as a dying woman who makes a daring request of an old friend, played brilliantly by Moore

Print Out: A City’s History, Told By Its Cinemas

By Nina Rocha
Long exposures: in the Brazilian city of Belo Horizonte, abandoned cinemas have become parking lots and gyms—but they also live on in the collective sensorial memory

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Secondhand Time

By Ayanna Dozier
Time and time again: recent works by Elisabeth Subrin and Zia Anger join a lineage of women’s films that invite us to witness failures and refusal, imbuing them with significance through re-performance

Features

Ongoing Revolutionary Process

By Benjamin Crais
Scenes from the class struggle: a new repertory series at MoMA connects Portugal’s political revolution to a renegotiation of the relationship between documentary and fiction

Interviews

Interview: Bernard Eisenschitz on Robert Kramer

By Christopher Small
Milestones: a new book republishes a free-flowing conversation between the noted French critic and the American filmmaker conducted in the late ’90s

You're Projecting

You’re Projecting #1

By Film Comment
Help us help you: in the first entry of our new advice column, critics Nathan Lee and Genevieve Yue offer helping hands to some cinephiles in need

Reviews

The Meg

By Leo Goldsmith
The great debate: Francis Ford Coppola's long-gestating passion project is both deeply personal and strangely unmoving

Features

Premortem and Postmortem

By Molly Haskell
Body doubles: David Cronenberg's The Shrouds and Pedro Almodóvar's The Room Next Door find both auteurs still playing around the permutations of the flesh, but in a decidedly retrospective mood