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Interview: Manuel Alberto Claro

By Yonca Talu
January 22, 2019
Lensing the Apocalypse: the cinematographer describes working on Lars von Trier's last three films, including the recent The House That Jack Built.

Film of the Week: Glass

By Jonathan Romney
January 18, 2019
All too superhuman: M. Night Shyamalan has nerve choosing Glass as the title for a film so unashamedly non-transparent

The Film Comment Podcast: Amazing Grace and the Concert Film

By Nicolas Rapold
January 18, 2019
Up close and personal: we talk about Aretha Franklin's Amazing Grace and the art of the concert film

Interview: Helena Třeštíková

By Ela Bittencourt
January 17, 2019
The stories we tell: the Czech documentary filmmaker on creating narratives out of daily life, her recent Doomed Beauty, and how her work is (or is not) feminist.

Interview: Dick Pope

By Yonca Talu
January 17, 2019
Blood and horses: the British cinematographer on the strategic maneuvers required to shoot Mike Leigh's historical epic Peterloo.

Queer & Now & Then: 1956

By Michael Koresky
January 16, 2019
A regular fella: Vincente Minnelli's Tea and Sympathy questions definitions of masculinity in what the filmmaker called "the first homosexual picture"

TCM Diary: Butcher, Baker, Nightmare Maker

By Justin Stewart
January 15, 2019
Illegal guardian: Susan Tyrrell plays an uncomfortably possessive aunt in a 1981 cocktail of familial perversity and slasher thrills

Interview: Cameron Bailey

By Nick Davis
January 15, 2019
Time regained: the artistic director of TIFF teleports us to the heady premillennial era with a series of films from 1999

Higher Learning: A Greater Los Angeles

By Laura Isabel Serna and Colin Gunckel
January 14, 2019
New Hollywood: Mexican-born critic and playwright Gabriel Navarro brought together a rich world of uniquely Mexican-American culture in the first decades of the 20th century

The Film Comment Podcast: The Rep Report #4

By Nicolas Rapold
January 11, 2019
The naked truth: we look at the MoMA's To Save and Project series, Anthology's city symphony survey, and more in our latest edition