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The Film Comment Podcast: NYFF 2016 Live Roundtable

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October 18, 2016
Friday night lights: five critics and editors discuss the surprises at this year’s festival

The Film Comment Podcast: The Living Cinema

By Film Comment
October 11, 2016
Live from NYFF: our critics and editors compare notes on the vibrant vision of cinema put forth in their essays for the magazine

The Film Comment Podcast: Social Media and Criticism

By Film Comment
October 4, 2016
Share this: four critics weigh the negative and positive aspects of 24/7 instant opinionating

The Film Comment Podcast: Classical Cinema, Now

By Film Comment
September 27, 2016
Nostalgia isn’t what it used to be: on the act of watching “old movies”

The Film Comment Podcast: Charles Burnett and Oliver Stone

By Film Comment
September 21, 2016
Two for the road: the director of Killer of Sheep and the director of Snowden discuss their careers and the relationship between art and politics

The Film Comment Podcast: Live from TIFF ’16

By Film Comment
September 16, 2016
Kids in the hall: seven critics discuss Moonlight, Voyage of Time, Nocturama, American Honey, and much more at this year’s Toronto International Film Festival

The Film Comment Podcast: American Movie Acting Today

By Film Comment
September 7, 2016
Playing it close to the chest: on emerging trends in actors’ expression in the age of surveillance and reality TV

Playing Along Playlist: Movie Theme Songs

By Film Comment
September 6, 2016
Live to tell: a special mix celebrating the (now-diminished) art of the movie theme song

The Film Comment Podcast: VHS, RIP

By Film Comment
August 30, 2016
Head cleaner: two former video store clerks (and two former customers) discuss the changes brought about by the rise and fall of VHS

The Film Comment Podcast: Class at the Movies

By Film Comment
August 23, 2016
In this economy? How narrative and documentary films depict wealth and poverty

The Film Comment Podcast: Ironic Soundtracks

By Film Comment
August 16, 2016
Why so serious? An aural history of the musical counterpoint

The Film Comment Podcast: Mondo Mondo

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July 26, 2016
Mortal video: the fraught terrain of capturing violence on film

The Film Comment Podcast: Merchant-Ivory and Howards End

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July 19, 2016
Tea and sympathy: getting to the heart of what made the duo's best-loved adaptations so special

The Film Comment Podcast: The July/August Issue

By Film Comment
July 5, 2016
Hearts and minds: three of our authors offer insights into their features in the new issue

The Film Comment Podcast: David Bordwell and The Rhapsodes

By Film Comment
June 28, 2016
The famed film scholar talks about four writers who redefined film criticism (and cinema): Otis Ferguson, James Agee, Manny Farber, and Parker Tyler

The Film Comment Podcast: The Summer of ’66

By Film Comment
June 22, 2016
Hindsight is 20/20: a look at the theatrical offerings of yesteryear

The Film Comment Podcast: Hong Sangsoo

By Film Comment
June 14, 2016
Flip it and reverse it: our panel of critics assess the Korean auteur’s beguiling romantic puzzles and his latest film, Right Now, Wrong Then

The Film Comment Podcast: Brian De Palma

By Film Comment
June 3, 2016
Double the fun: the directors of De Palma, Noah Baumbach and Jake Paltrow, discuss their relationship with the auteur—and then our critics hash out their own feelings about his work

The Film Comment Podcast: Cannes Redux and Whit Stillman

By Film Comment
May 27, 2016
Best in show? On the standouts, the overlooked, and utterly lousy of this year's festival, plus a one-on-one with the director of Love & Friendship

The Film Comment Podcast: Live from Cannes!

By Film Comment
May 20, 2016
Funny, that: on the manifold embrace of comedy, new narrative structures, and the uneven forays into genre in this year's Cannes lineup