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The Film Comment Podcast: The Cinema of Experience

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October 10, 2017
The world, viewed: a live discussion at the New York Film Festival about what makes cinema truly diverse

The Film Comment Podcast: Steven Spielberg

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October 3, 2017
Encounters of the critical kind: amblin’ through the major and minor films of the American auteur

The Film Comment Podcast: Darren Aronofsky

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October 2, 2017
Another brick in the wall: the director of mother! explains the aesthetic principles behind his latest film

The Film Comment Podcast: Robert Mitchum

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September 26, 2017
Man of the century: a closer look at what made the star—subject of the New York Film Festival retrospective—so damn cool

The Film Comment Podcast: Twin Peaks: The Return

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September 20, 2017
TV from another place: a discussion of David Lynch’s 18-hour opus

The Film Comment Podcast: Live from TIFF ’17

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September 13, 2017
Northern lights: six critics discuss Zama, mother!, Downsizing, and much more at this year’s Toronto International Film Festival

The Film Comment Podcast: Mudbound

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September 5, 2017
The founders of civilization: Dee Rees’s American epic examines the social fabric of the Jim Crow south

The Film Comment Podcast: Revenge of Movie Gifts

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August 29, 2017
No refunds: our cadre of critics return to give each other films they’ve never seen before

The Film Comment Podcast: Nocturama + Terrorism

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August 22, 2017
Atrocity exhibition: our guests compare directorial approaches to depicting political violence in film

The Film Comment Podcast: Jeanne Moreau

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August 15, 2017
Talking taboo with the great priestess of film: a vintage interview with the iconic actress

The Film Comment Podcast: The Summer of ’77

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August 8, 2017
Media blackout: looking back at the grotty glory of Times Square theaters

The Film Comment Podcast: Yvonne Rainer

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August 1, 2017
Talking pictures: an interview with the landmark experimental filmmaker, choreographer, and poet

The Film Comment Podcast: Good Time

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July 27, 2017
Street theater: a post-screening discussion with the Safdie Brothers, Ronald Bronstein, and Robert Pattinson about their New York thriller

The Film Comment Podcast: Location, Location, Location

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July 18, 2017
Off the set, into the streets: looking at the famous (or unexplored) places that made a film

The Film Comment Podcast: Wanda. Woman.

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July 11, 2017
Finding her way: a discussion of Barbara Loden’s trailblazing 1970 film and Nathalie Léger’s fascinating (and frustrating) meditation on it

The Film Comment Podcast: Independents Day

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July 4, 2017
Self-rule: a few declarations about notable American independent filmmakers, past and present

The Film Comment Podcast: Bad Scenes in Good Movies, Good Scenes in Bad Movies

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June 27, 2017
Diamonds in the rough, thorns amid the roses: our critics explore films of inconsistent quality

The Film Comment Podcast: Streaming vs. Theatrical

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June 20, 2017
Video killed what now? Weighing in on the debate about how and when we get to watch film

The Film Comment Podcast: Movie Addictions

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June 13, 2017
Where were the parents? The films four critics can’t stop watching (for better or worse) and some pseudo-psychological attempts to figure out why

The Film Comment Podcast: Fassbinder’s Eight Hours Don’t Make a Day

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June 6, 2017
Surviving the working week: a guide to Fassbinder’s newly restored must-see TV series, a humanist ode to the common man