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Seeing Double: Bad Timing & Winter Light

By Molly Haskell
June 14, 2021
Through a glass darkly: the critic finds strange exhilaration in a particularly daunting pair of movies

Beyond Representation: An Interview with Genevieve Yue

By Mackenzie Lukenbill
June 14, 2021
Hidden pattern: Yue discusses her book Girl Head: Feminism and Film Materiality, which explores the material erasure of women in cinema

Film Comment Recommends: This Is Not My Music

By Clinton Krute
June 7, 2021
Pocket symphony: a 1978 documentary about Don Cherry captures the working life of an artist who never stopped moving

Review: The Disciple

By Phuong Le
June 7, 2021
Master and man: in Chaitanya Tamhane’s meditative drama, an aspiring musician finds himself at a crossroads between mediocrity and monastic commitment

Angel of History

By Devika Girish
June 7, 2021
In the drink: Undine reenergizes the recursive motifs of Christian Petzold's oeuvre while also sharpening his longstanding interest in history and capitalism

Step Right Up!

By Maitland McDonagh
June 1, 2021
George Romero’s empathetic "The Amusement Park" confronts the horrors of the world through the eyes of the elderly

The Past Is Another Country

By Sukhdev Sandhu
June 1, 2021
The home and the world: Jia Zhangke's luminous Swimming Out Till the Sea Turns Blue looks back at China's rural past

Film Comment Recommends: Four Roads

By Courtney Duckworth
June 1, 2021
Distant constellations: Alice Rohrwacher's new pandemic short conjures intimacy in seclusion

Cutting Edge

By Joi McMillon
May 24, 2021
The Underground Railroad editor and regular Barry Jenkins–collaborator Joi McMillon details her formative influences

Toward a Theory of Film Directing

By Charles Grodin
May 24, 2021
From our our May-June 2006 issue, the late-lamented actor's personal take on the actor-director relationship