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 more
By Genevieve Yue Class canceled: are the binders empty in Luca Guadagnino’s After the Hunt because the professors are full of shit, or is it just a continuity error?
The Film Comment Podcast: Gianfranco Rosi on Below the Clouds
Layers of time: the Italian nonfiction master joins to discuss his latest, which explores the city of Naples as an environment both cosmic and prosaic
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
Prison films: Phillip Vance Smith, II reflects on how movies like Life, Penitentiary, and Sing Sing portray life behind bars, and how his own experience of watching them has changed over his years of incarceration
Break like the wind: the legendary British rockers are joined by their longtime creative foil, filmmaker Marty DiBergi, to discuss their long, loud career
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