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Kaiju Shakedown: ThaiWorld

By Grady Hendrix
May 1, 2014
Where are they now? A who's who guide to the big names in contemporary Thai cinema

Film of the Week: Ida

By Jonathan Romney
May 1, 2014
Pawel Pawlikowski's compelling, austere tale about the impossibility of regaining what has been lost

The Film Comment Hot 25

By Film Comment
April 29, 2014
Putting it out there: our list of the best movies currently without theatrical distribution in the U.S.

Interview: Pawel Pawlikowski

By Violet Lucca
April 29, 2014
Fundamentals: the Ida director on telling his acclaimed Polish postwar story, purely and simply

Art of the Real: Hybrid Cinema Timeline

By Dan Sullivan
April 27, 2014
Everything that's old is new: on the intertwined histories of documentary and fiction technique

Bombast: The Afghan Whigs

By Nick Pinkerton
April 25, 2014
Sub genius: a consideration of one band's cinematic unself-consciousness

Review: The Other Woman

By Morgan Wilcock
April 25, 2014
Ten years after The Notebook, Nick Cassavetes returns with a story of female vengeance

Kaiju Shakedown: Lau Kar-leung

By Grady Hendrix
April 24, 2014
Grandmaster: remembering the director who defined the kung fu film

Film of the Week: Blue Ruin

By Jonathan Romney
April 23, 2014
Jeremy Saulnier’s grubby, atmospheric revenge pic follows an unlikely—but persistent—vigilante

Film Comment News Digest: 4/22/14

By Gavin Smith
April 22, 2014
The Yes Men get back to work! Peter Greenaway deathwatch! Bryan Cranston and Helen Mirren reunion! And more...