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The Afterlives of Éclair

Factory dreams: the artist-run collective L’Abominable imagines a future for the film laboratory in the ruins of the legendary French studio
Read Alice Lovejoy‘s essay

The Film Comment Podcast: Tokyo International Film Festival 2025

Taking the stage: a stellar rotation of critics explore the lineup of one of Asia’s major film events
Listen to the conversation

Book Review: Ross Lipman’s The Archival Impermanence Project

Print tests: the renowned restorationist’s new collection provides a much-needed meta-analysis of the film-preservation discipline
Read Lily Grossbard‘s Essay

Day by Day

By Daniel Zheng
Portraits in life: Ira Sachs’s Peter Hujar’s Day, a not-quite-biopic about the renowned photographer, finds its magic in the mundane

The Film Comment Podcast: Noah Baumbach on Jay Kelly

Can I go again? The writer-director discusses his latest, a screwball caper—with a touch of Baumbachian melancholy—about a regretful movie star played by George Clooney

Interview: Lynne Ramsay on Die My Love

By Devika Girish
In spite of ourselves: the Scottish auteur discusses her latest, a typically precise portrait of an inscrutable character

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Features

Tender Pains

By Ayanna Dozier
Suffering embraces: Angelo Madsen’s feature documentary A Body to Live In and Tiona Nekkia McClodden’s video installations explore sadomasochism through a soft and attentive lens

In Memoriam

Ken and Flo Jacobs: A Love Story

By David Schwartz
Eternalisms: a tribute to the indefatigable husband and wife pair, whose art was a neverending process of revelation

Podcast

The Film Comment Podcast: Paul Thomas Anderson’s One Battle After Another

By Film Comment
What time is it?: critics and programmers Miriam Bale and Adam Piron join to discuss PTA’s latest's successes and failures, how it fits into his larger body of work, and more

Interviews

Interview: Mary Stephen on Ombres de soie and Palimpsest

By Yuka Murakami
Rewriting the past: the Hong Kong-born, Paris based filmmaker and editor reflects on her first and latest features

Features

Time Has Told Me

By Clinton Krute
Paint work: Kelly Reichardt's The Mastermind is fun and funny, but it also just might be her most chilling portrait of America to date

Interviews

Interview: Geeta Gandbhir on The Perfect Neighbor

By Ruun Nuur
Reversing injustice: the filmmaker discusses her new documentary, which uses police body-cam footage to capture the events that culminated in the murder of a Black mother by her white neighbor