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Festivals

The Film Comment Podcast: Sundance 2019–The Final Chapter

By Nicolas Rapold
February 6, 2019
Fashionably late: standout documentaries, sweeping assessments, and the many ways Sundance has changed since the early ’90s

Photo Essay: Honeysuckle Rose

By Robert Joseph Schneider
February 6, 2019
On the road again: Cinematographer Robby Müller's sun-kissed aesthetic matches the laid-back vibe of Jerry Schatzberg's 1980 gem

Film Comment Selects 2019 Cheat Sheet

By Film Comment
February 6, 2019

The premise of Film Comment Selects (screening February 6 to 10) is simple but effective: each year, our writers cover films across the globe, and each year, we work to bring those movies back to Film Society screens for your…

Tunnel Vision: The Hidden City and City Symphonies

By Imogen Sara Smith
February 5, 2019
Celebrating the kino-eye: The Hidden City, screening in Film Comment Selects, is part of a tradition extending to the beginnings of cinema

Interview: Victor Moreno

By Nicolas Rapold
February 5, 2019
Plumbing the depths: The Hidden City, screening February 6 in Film Comment Selects, takes viewer on a journey into the underground

Interview: Beata Bubenec

By Daniel Witkin
February 4, 2019
Everyday wartime: the Russian filmmaker on her harrowing, single-take doc Flight of a Bullet, screening February 7 in Film Comment Selects

Interview: Joanna Hogg

By Nicolas Rapold
February 4, 2019
Drama in small things: the director of Sundance standout The Souvenir on autobiography and subverting narrative expectations

Sundance Dispatch: Clemency

By Devika Girish
February 4, 2019
In frame: Chinonye Chukwu’s film, which opens the 2019 ND/NF, features an extraordinary performance by Alfre Woodard as a conflicted prison warden

Interview: Shengze Zhu

By Becca Voelcker
February 1, 2019
On display: the filmmaker on the world of Chinese live-streaming culture she explores in the Rotterdam award-winner Present.Perfect.

Waste Lands: Sunset and A Fortunate Man

By Imogen Sara Smith
February 1, 2019
Bright lights, big city: Two films explode, in very different ways, an age-old narrative trope