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Nicolas Rapold

The Film Comment Podcast: Toronto One

By Nicolas Rapold
September 11, 2018
High hopes: we discuss Fahrenheit 11/9, Graves Without a Name, Destroyer, and more at the Canadian megafestival

Venice Interview: Mike Leigh

By Nicolas Rapold
September 5, 2018
Vox populi: Peterloo shows the perilous struggle behind an 1819 democratic protest for voting rights in an era of crushing inequality

The Film Comment Podcast: Venice

By Nicolas Rapold
September 5, 2018
Total cinema: our editor-in-chief reports from the venerable festival on ROMA and other essential fall films

Festivals: Venice

By Nicolas Rapold
September 5, 2018
Old hands: the usual distractions of the hype industry on the Lido fortunately can't obscure true grit

Intimations of Mortality

By Nicolas Rapold
September 4, 2018
Monrovia, Indiana, Frederick Wiseman’s postcard from the Midwest, detects the lengthening shadows beyond the all-American sunshine

The Film Comment Podcast: Great Debuts, Still Masters

By Nicolas Rapold
August 30, 2018
We discuss Terence Davies and other filmmakers who started out seemingly fully formed

Venice 2018 Cheat Sheet

By Nicolas Rapold
August 27, 2018
Island of cinema: your handy preview of the movies in the festival's 75th edition

The Film Comment Podcast: The Summer of 2001

By Nicolas Rapold
August 22, 2018
Anticipation: we discuss a peculiar moment of suspension and change at the movies, and look back on how this era affected us

The Film Comment Podcast: Locarno 2018

By Nicolas Rapold
August 9, 2018
Mountain views: the discerning festival remains a stimulating laboratory of film culture, including new films by photographer Richard Billingham and a 13.5-hour film that's a feast of genre storytelling

The Film Comment Podcast: The Russians

By Nicolas Rapold
July 26, 2018
Red state: the recent, and complex, history of Putin’s protectorate has fueled energetic responses from filmmakers

Short Take: Good Manners

By Nicolas Rapold
July 23, 2018
(Marco Dutra & Juliana Rojas, Brazil, Distrib Films, Opening July 27)

The Film Comment Podcast: Boots Riley and Questlove

By Nicolas Rapold
July 18, 2018
The means of production: the director of Sorry to Bother You talks about his brilliant, bizarre work of pop radicalism, in our latest Film Comment Free Talk

The Film Comment Podcast: Drone Cinema

By Nicolas Rapold
July 11, 2018
Up, up, and awesome: a cinematographer and a critic/programmer debate the potential for a much-maligned new(ish) tool of cinema

Get Me Rewrite

By Nicolas Rapold
July 9, 2018
With BlacKkKlansman, Spike Lee forcefully corrects the record of American history once again

Festivals: Trolling the Croisette

By Nicolas Rapold
July 2, 2018
At Cannes, self-determination effectively became the topic du jour, whether on the screen or in debates about the festival

The Film Comment Podcast: Visconti

By Nicolas Rapold
June 28, 2018
End of an era: the FSLC retrospective lets our contributors reappreciate the magnificent oeuvre of an Italian master who specialized in twilight moments

Interview: Margarethe von Trotta

By Nicolas Rapold
May 20, 2018
Leading the way: the German filmmaker discusses her new documentary Searching for Ingmar Bergman, now opening soon

Short Takes: En el Séptimo Día

By Nicolas Rapold
May 1, 2018
(Jim McKay, USA, Cinema Guild, Opening June 8)

Maternity Leave

By Nicolas Rapold
April 30, 2018
A writer wants to write in peace in Scary Mother, the fervid first film from Georgia’s Ana Urushadze

Festivals: True/False 2018

By Nicolas Rapold
March 26, 2018
Nothing plain about it: this year’s wave of documentaries gazed upon the ruins (of man, democracy, monasteries—take your pick)