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The Film Comment Podcast: Cannes 2019 Day 10

By Nicolas Rapold
May 24, 2019
Going up: a closer look at some of the best Middle Eastern and African films at the festival

The Film Comment Podcast: Cannes 2019 Day 9

By Nicolas Rapold
May 23, 2019
A little perspective: our panel of critics (live at the American Pavillion!) on the films from this year’s festival that just may stand the test of time

Cannes Dispatch: Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood

By Eugene Hernandez
May 22, 2019
Eternal return: the director and stars of the Cannes sensation share some thoughts on what some have dubbed “Tarantino’s Roma”

Queer & Now & Then: 1942

By Michael Koresky
May 22, 2019
A queer duck: masculinity, social progress, and comeuppance in The Magnificent Ambersons

Feeling Seen: Roberto Gavaldón, Misanthrope

By Carlos Valladares
May 22, 2019
Pity and fear: The Mexican filmmaker takes his rightful place as the evil twin of such cinematic poets of fate as Frank Borzage and Jacques Demy

Interview: Mati Diop

By Eric Hynes
May 22, 2019
Crossing over: the director on her debut feature Atlantics, a love story haunted by the failures of the global economy

The Film Comment Podcast: Cannes 2019 Day 7, part II

By Nicolas Rapold
May 21, 2019
Hootenanny: fresh (and contentious takes) on Quentin Tarantino’s Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood and Terrence Malick’s A Hidden Life

Interview: Kleber Mendonça Filho and Juliano Dornelles

By Ela Bittencourt
May 21, 2019
Country life: The directors of Bacurau on how the film‘s setting in Brazil’s wild backcountry informed their blistering portrait of resistance

The Film Comment Podcast: Cannes 2019 Day 7

By Nicolas Rapold
May 21, 2019
Conjuring spirits: Carlo Chatrian joins to discuss Bertrand Bonello, Albert Serra, Bruno Dumont, Corneliu Porumboiu, and cycles of genre at the festival

Cannes Dispatch: And Then We Danced

By Eugene Hernandez
May 20, 2019
Old country waltz: Levan Akin’s And Then We Danced is a quietly revolutionary movie set in the former Soviet republic of Georgia