Festivals

In Memoriam: Agnès Varda

By Kelley Conway

May 1, 2019

With deceptively casual genius, Agnès Varda journeyed deep into the truth of experience

The First New York Film Festival

By Gordon Hitchens

April 23, 2019

Gordon Hitchens, Film Comment's founding editor, reports on the first New York Film Festival

Cannes 2019 Cheat Sheet

By Film Comment

April 19, 2019

Looking ahead: an overview of all the features at the 2019 Cannes Film Festival

Report on Reason

By Devika Girish

April 19, 2019

Fear is not an option: Anand Patwardhan's essay film traces the pattern of political and sectarian violence across the modern history of India

Interview: Andrés Duque

By Manu Yáñez Murillo

April 18, 2019

Borderlands: Karelia: International with Monument portrays an ancient culture being crushed by a repressive state

Dispatch: Qumra 2019

By Jordan Cronk

April 8, 2019

New age: Kiyoshi Kurosawa, Alice Rohrwacher, and VR and its discontents at the Doha Film Institute's industry summit in Qatar

Interview: Burak Çevik

By Yonca Talu

April 1, 2019

Crime and punishment: Belonging, screening April 4 at ND/NF, rises above psychological and moral judgments to navigate the complexity of family history

Interview: André Novais Oliveira & Grace Passô

By Ela Bittencourt

March 29, 2019

Edge of the city: the director and lead actor of Long Way Home on the difficulties facing black filmmakers in Brazil

ND/NF Voices: Honeyland, Joy, End of the Century

By Naomi Keenan O'Shea

March 27, 2019

Three's company: the filmmakers behind standouts from ND/NF chat about their films

Interview: Mark Jenkin

By Chloe Lizotte

March 27, 2019

Fresh catch: the rough-hewn Bait keenly portrays a displaced and reconfigured working-class community in coastal Britain