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News to Me: Med Hondo, Claire Denis, and RaMell Ross

By Film Comment
March 4, 2019
Back in the high life: Chris Kraus, Chantal Akerman, Craig Baldwin, and Robert Pattinson on lead vocals

Film of the Week: Transit

By Jonathan Romney
March 1, 2019
The illusionist: Christian Petzold's latest is effectively two different films, depending on what you think you’re seeing

Deep Focus: The Wedding Guest

By Michael Sragow
March 1, 2019
Soft boiled: Dev Patel acts with an electric wariness in Michael Winterbottom's otherwise flimsy thriller

Review: Greta

By Amy Taubin
February 28, 2019
Something wicked: a contemporary fairy tale draws out the darkness of a twisted mother/daughter bond

Queer & Now & Then: 1994/2015

By Michael Koresky
February 28, 2019
Architectures of desire: Tsai Ming-liang's Vive L’Amour and No No Sleep saturate the screen with psychosexual intensity

Bruno Ganz, Mischievous Angel

By José Teodoro
February 27, 2019
Watching over: Ganz often devoted the bulk of his energy to listening, captivating us with his attention

The Film Comment Podcast: Art and Fascism

By Nicolas Rapold
February 27, 2019
The problem of evil: guests J. Hoberman and Zoe Beloff on the shifting reputation of Leni Riefenstahl's notorious Triumph of the Will

Higher Learning: The Unwatchable

By W.J.T. Mitchell
February 26, 2019
See no evil: what does it mean to proclaim something “unwatchable,” whether disturbing, revolting, poor quality, tedious, or literally inaccessible?

What I Saw at the Pictures

By Russell Banks
February 26, 2019
The author of Affliction on Antoine Doinel and breaking free from the "programmed pro-American propaganda" of a mid-century childhood

In Memoriam: Stanley Donen

By Nicolas Rapold
February 25, 2019
Remembering Stanley Donen, a master of the golden-age Hollywood musical with the likes of Singin’ in the Rain and On the Town