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Interview: Zoe Kazan

November 8, 2018

O, pioneer: the actor talks about starring in Joel and Ethan Coen's The Ballad of Buster Scruggs and elucidates the nuances of their tragicomic style

Queer & Now & Then: 1978

By Michael Koresky

November 7, 2018

On the verge: Chantal Akerman’s Les Rendez-vous d’Anna locates sexual fluidity in an otherwise stultifying modern world

The Film Comment Podcast: Sandi Tan (Shirkers)

By Nicolas Rapold

November 7, 2018

Lost and found: the director of Sundance prize-winner Shirkers relives the making of a vanished film, in a Film Comment Talk at the Film Society

Festivals: Pordenone 2018

By Imogen Sara Smith

November 6, 2018

Silent treatment: a specialized festival continued to present illuminating riches from the past with the highest standards of presentation

TCM Diary: Glenda Farrell

By Justin Stewart

November 5, 2018

Fast track: the actress brought a thoughtful swing to the genre-hopping newspaper milieu of Hi, Nellie!

Film of the Week: Bohemian Rhapsody

By Jonathan Romney

November 2, 2018

The day the music died: the biopic of Freddie Mercury is nearly fascinating for its distortion of pop history and blithe deployment of wan clichés

Deep Focus: A Private War

By Michael Sragow

November 2, 2018

First responder: a hard-charging journalist goes for broke in documentary filmmaker Matthew Heineman's fiction feature debut

News to Me: FilmStruck, Kelly Reichardt, Martin Scorsese, Bong Joon-ho

By Nicolas Rapold

November 2, 2018

Merging with infinity: the departure of a beloved streaming service, plus new films by Kelly Reichardt and more

Festivals: Chicago 2018

By Nick Davis

November 1, 2018

The whole entire world: more than one selection at the long-running fest took on the unequal power dynamics faced globally

The Film Comment Podcast: Ghosts

By Nicolas Rapold

October 31, 2018

Le cinema du boo: what do these visitations of the supernatural and the otherwise unearthly do to us, and to movies?