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Film Comment Selects: Nils Malmros

By Max Nelson
February 27, 2015
The getting of wisdom: on the Danish auteur's deeply personal cinema and rare insights into childhood (and beyond)

Bombast: Subterranean Hot Take Blues

By Nick Pinkerton
February 27, 2015
Don’t you have to see the movie? On the practice of cultural commentary without culture

Notebook: An Evening with Tom McCarthy

By Jackson Arn
February 27, 2015
Double détournement: a screening of Burroughs's Towers Open Fire and Grimonprez's Dial H-I-S-T-O-R-Y, with commentary from the novelist

Interview: David Cronenberg

By Graham Fuller
February 26, 2015
Heavenly bodies: the filmmaker discusses the intersection of power, family, lies, and (career) death in Maps to the Stars

Deep Focus: Maps to the Stars

By Michael Sragow
February 26, 2015
David Cronenberg’s formalist and fungoid Hollywood satire cum ghost story, featuring Julianne Moore's other award-winning tour de force

Film of the Week: Eastern Boys

By Jonathan Romney
February 26, 2015
Robin Campillo's brooding, exquisitely controlled drama of migrant sex work refuses any one interpretation

Interview: Christian Petzold

By Nicolas Rapold
February 26, 2015
The director of Phoenix discusses his collaboration with Harun Farocki and Hitler bunker conspiracy theories

Rep Diary: Tulsa

By Julian Ross
February 25, 2015
Bastards of young: a look back at Larry Clark's early film work

Notebook: Oscar Week

By Eugene Hernandez
February 25, 2015
Harness your hopes: the decreasing distance between independent films and Hollywood award-winners

Rep Diary: Films of John Korty

By Tanner Tafelski
February 24, 2015
The Kortian knot: a look at the San Francisco filmmaker's hard-to-classify montage-powered oeuvre, from animation to domestic drama to Oscar-winning documentary