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Feeling Seen: Midnight in Paris

By Kelli Weston
April 2, 2019
Big night: Midnight in Paris documents the run-up to prom night at a majority-black public school, and finds promise in the banal

Interview: Burak Çevik

By Yonca Talu
April 1, 2019
Crime and punishment: Belonging, screening April 4 at ND/NF, rises above psychological and moral judgments to navigate the complexity of family history

News to Me: Andy Warhol, a single Coen, and farewell to Agnès

By Film Comment
April 1, 2019
The body electric: Ingmar Bergman, climate change, and the transgender politics of The Matrix

Film of the Week: Diane

By Jonathan Romney
March 29, 2019
Not dark yet: Kent Jones's Diane is an altogether sober film, a drama about ageing that is nothing less than ice-water unsentimental

Interview: André Novais Oliveira & Grace Passô

By Ela Bittencourt
March 29, 2019
Edge of the city: the director and lead actor of Long Way Home on the difficulties facing black filmmakers in Brazil

Playlist: The Films of William Ferris

By Clinton Krute
March 28, 2019
Blues connotations: the music of the rural South in the rough-hewn documentaries of William Ferris

The Film Comment Podcast: The Rep Report #6

By Nicolas Rapold
March 28, 2019
A very curious girl: Chris Wells and Nellie Killian join to discuss the long-overlooked Nelly Kaplan, Fay Wray and Robert Riskin, and more

Higher Learning: Labeling Black Unbankable

By Maryann Erigha
March 28, 2019
Split ticket: how Hollywood insiders socially construct audiences by strategically targeting specific racial demographics

Queer & Now & Then: 1940

By Michael Koresky
March 27, 2019
Dignified options: Dorothy Arzner's Dance, Girl, Dance is a case study for how Hollywood comedy could convey vivid queerness beneath a seemingly formula exterior

ND/NF Voices: Honeyland, Joy, End of the Century

By Naomi Keenan O'Shea
March 27, 2019
Three's company: the filmmakers behind standouts from ND/NF chat about their films