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The Film Comment Podcast: Berlinale 2024 #1

By Film Comment
February 17, 2024
Face to face: critics Jordan Cronk, Jessica Kiang, and Jonathan Romney join to discuss the opening days of the festival, which included new films from Olivier Assayas, Alonso Ruizpalacios, Ruth Beckermann, and more

The Film Comment Podcast: The Films of Ilkka Järvi-Laturi

By Film Comment
February 13, 2024
Smoke and mirrors: programmer Steve Macfarlane and critic Hannu Björkbacka join to discuss the work of the Finnish auteur, subject of a long overdue retrospective at MoMA

Outer Limits: IFFR 2024

By Jordan Cronk
February 12, 2024
Shuffled deck: despite the restructuring of the festival, this year’s edition featured some remarkably adventurous work, including Born in Gunsan and after seven years, I was repatriated to Japan…, Dream Team, Under a Blue Sun, and more

Interview: Bas Devos on Here

By Leonardo Goi
February 12, 2024
Cosmic unity: the Belgian filmmaker discusses his the latest feature, its unique vision of immigrant life in Europe, and his evocative combination of micro and macro approaches to space

The Film Comment Podcast: IFFR 2024

By Film Comment
February 7, 2024
Dutch angle: critics Jordan Cronk and Beatrice Loayza join to round up some highlights from this year's festival, including Dream Team, The Ballad of Suzanne Césaire, Mario, and more

Sundance 2024: Reality Bites

By Devika Girish
February 5, 2024
Truth and consequences: three notable nonfiction titles from this year's Sundance stood out from the lineup: the Richard Linklater–directed first episode of the documentary trilogy God Save Texas; War Game; and Union

The Food Film, à la France

By Simran Hans
February 5, 2024
The French Chef: Trần Anh Hùng’s The Taste of Things, starring former off-screen lovers Juliette Binoche and Benoît Magimel, boasts all the classic elements of culinary cinema, but deploys them to culturally and narratively specific ends

Indiscreet Charms

By Brittany Rosemary Jones
February 5, 2024
Exile on main street: the movies Luis Buñuel made in exile, the subject of a screening series at the Museum of Modern Art, combine his avant-garde roots with the commercial demands of the Golden Age of Mexican Cinema

Sundance 2024: On the Come Up

By Devika Girish
January 29, 2024
Let's get physical: the narrative highlights of this year's festival included Kneecap, A Different Man, Handling the Undead, and more

Interview: Jane Schoenbrun on I Saw the TV Glow

By Willow Catelyn Maclay
January 29, 2024
Through the looking glass: the director of the Sundance sensation talks about making a new kind of trans cinema, recreating '90s television, and finding beauty in horror