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News to Me: Jerry Lewis’s “Home Movies,” Kasi Lemmons, Annette Michelson

September 19, 2018

The home office: the comedy legend’s full-fledged films with Dean, Janet Leigh, and Tony Curtis, plus the latest on Marielle Heller and Kasi Lemmons

Deep Focus: White Boy Rick

By Michael Sragow

September 14, 2018

Dependence: director Yann Demange gets inside the workings of a complicated family through an undercover drug drama

Film of the Week: The Public Image Is Rotten

By Jonathan Romney

September 14, 2018

Appetite for destruction: a new documentary about the Sex Pistols and Public Image Limited frontman mostly plays the hits

The Film Comment Podcast: Toronto Three

By Nicolas Rapold

September 14, 2018

Grand finale: we discuss more of the hits from Toronto as the festival rolls to a close

Festivals: Toronto 2018

By Michael Koresky

September 13, 2018

North of the border: Barry Jenkins, Claire Denis, and Alex Ross Perry convey uncompromising visions, and Joel Edgerton directs Boy Erased

Interview: Jeanne Balibar

By Joan Dupont

September 13, 2018

The voice: the French star of Mathieu Amalric’s Barbara comes to New York for a series at FIAF and Anthology

Interview: Mary Harron

By Nicolas Rapold

September 12, 2018

Group therapy: the director of Charlie Says, in theaters now, delves into the manipulative world of Manson from the perspective of his female followers

The Film Comment Podcast: Toronto Two

By Nicolas Rapold

September 12, 2018

Station to station: we discuss new films by Claire Denis, Barry Jenkins, Errol Morris, and more

Queer & Now & Then: 1960

By Michael Koresky

September 12, 2018

Homme fatale: the surpassing beauty of Alain Delon in Purple Noon is a lethal weapon that the actor wields without mercy

Interview: Mahmoud Kalari

By Godfrey Cheshire

September 12, 2018

The illusionist: the era-spanning cinematographer shot films for Iran’s greatest auteurs, including Kiarostami, Makhmalbaf, Mehrjui, and Panahi