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Blues for the Iron Curtain: Cold War and Red Boogie

By Imogen Sara Smith
October 30, 2018
Chill wind blows: Pawel Pawlikowski's latest film shares points of romantic and musical comparison with a film by Karpo Godina

The Film Comment Podcast: Paul Dano and Richard Ford

By Nicolas Rapold
October 29, 2018
Putting out fires: the director of Wildlife and the writer of the novel Wildlife meet for a rare discussion of filming and writing fiction

Film of the Week: Shirkers

By Jonathan Romney
October 26, 2018
Living in oblivion: filmmaker Sandi Tan retraces the bizarre mystery of the bodacious indie gem she made in the '90s with friends and a mystery man

Deep Focus: Mid90s

By Michael Sragow
October 25, 2018
Skate kids: Jonah Hill makes his directorial debut with a sensitively observed, modestly conceived story of a skateboarder just growin' up

Review: Border

By Devika Girish
October 25, 2018
Sixth sense: an outsider learns to search within in Ali Abbasi's emotionally grounded work of fantasy

Interview: Lee Chang-dong

By Dennis Lim
October 25, 2018
Vast carelessness: the Korean director's beguiling drama of lives led astray will be the one to endure from this year's edition of the festival

Queer & Now & Then: 1963

By Michael Koresky
October 24, 2018
Blithe spirit: for the two women in Robert Wise's adaptation The Haunting, there is more to reckon with than the possibility of a supernatural presence

The Film Comment Podcast: Peter Bogdanovich

By Nicolas Rapold
October 23, 2018
The never-ending story: the filmmaker/historian discusses his Keaton documentary The Great Buster, Orson Welles’s The Other Side of the Wind, and more

Sing Your Life: Marnie at the Met

By Michael Koresky
October 19, 2018
Red alert: the story of trauma famously portrayed in Hitchcock’s film now takes flight as an opera

Film of the Week: They Shall Not Grow Old

By Jonathan Romney
October 19, 2018
Digital poppies: Peter Jackson's controversial film project attempts to revive the voices of World War I through colorization and other effects