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News to Me: Godard, Mambéty, and Loznitsa

By Film Comment
April 29, 2019
Captain America: Marvel, monopoly, and Easy Rider at Cannes

Higher Learning: The Point of View Shot

By Patrick Keating
April 26, 2019
Show, don't tell: As in the silent period, the idea that the camera might move like a person took different forms in the 1930s

Film of the Week: Erased,___Ascent of the Invisible

By Jonathan Romney
April 26, 2019
Disappearing act: the Lebanese film could be called a speculative documentary, an essay film, or a conceptual art piece

Interview: Nina Menkes

By Jordan Cronk
April 25, 2019
Wheel of fortune: The 1991 Queen of Diamonds, at BAM April 26, proceeds in a deceptively complex, elliptical fashion

Interview: Peter Strickland

By José Teodoro
April 25, 2019
Off the rack: In Fabric tracks a haunted dress purchased at a department store filled with eerily persuasive salespeople

Queer & Now & Then: 1950

By Michael Koresky
April 24, 2019
Obscure object: the explicit imagery of Jean Genet's Un chant d’amour has perhaps overwhelmed discussion of its supple construction

The Film Comment Podcast: Desire at the Movies

By Nicolas Rapold
April 24, 2019
Realm of the senses: a discussion of the ways in which desire and the erotic are fundamental to our love of movies

Interview: Joe Bini and Sam Green

By Eric Hynes
April 23, 2019
Time present and time past: a "live documentary" about the Kronos Quartet makes the foundational tension of cinema actively experienced and felt

News to Me: Cannes, New York, and Notre Dame

By Film Comment
April 22, 2019
Evening all afternoon: Thirteen High Flying Birds, the Chaplin archive, and Hilma af Klint & Olivier Assayas

Cannes 2019 Cheat Sheet

By Film Comment
April 19, 2019
Looking ahead: an overview of all the features at the 2019 Cannes Film Festival