Festivals

Always on the Verge

By Amy Taubin

February 23, 2018

Diversity and representation aren’t just buzzwords at Sundance—they’ve long been a way of life

Festivals: Rotterdam 2018

By Jordan Cronk

February 21, 2018

It’s complicated: can this early champion of the likes of Lav Diaz and Carlos Reygadas recover its former glories?

Festivals: Projections 2017

By Irina Leimbacher

February 12, 2018

A thousand points of light: looking back at NYFF’s program of experimental cinema restores faith in a shifting medium’s restless soul

The Film Comment Podcast: Apichatpong Weerasethakul on SLEEPCINEMAHOTEL

By Film Comment

February 1, 2018

Room to dream: the director’s latest installation at Rotterdam offers guests the opportunity to exist in a liminal space (plus breakfast)

Sundance Interview: RaMell Ross

By Eric Hynes

February 1, 2018

Lives in full: the filmmaker on his Oscar-nominated documentary Hale County This Morning, This Evening

Sundance: The Kindergarten Teacher

By April Wolfe

January 24, 2018

Sara Colangelo remakes a contemplative and ambiguous recent Israeli drama in a distinctly American verse and rhythm

The Film Comment Podcast: Sundance Day Seven

By Film Comment

January 24, 2018

To the front: on the increasing visibility of women and minorities at the festival, the problems with The Tale, and much more

Sundance: The Miseducation of Cameron Post

By April Wolfe

January 23, 2018

With her gay conversion therapy drama, Desiree Akhavan takes on a serious subject—seriously

The Film Comment Podcast: Steve James

By Film Comment

January 23, 2018

Class is in session: the seasoned documentarian discusses his ten-part miniseries about a racially diverse school in the Chicago suburbs, America to Me

The Film Comment Podcast: Sundance Day Six

By Film Comment

January 23, 2018

Keeping it real: on Sam Green’s A Thousand Thoughts, Jennifer Fox’s The Tale, Desiree Akhavan’s The Miseducation of Cameron Post, and Panos Cosmatos’s Mandy