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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...

Interview: Marianne Pistone and Gilles Deroo

By Nicholas Elliott
April 21, 2014
The directors of Mouton describe their hybrid aesthetics

Book Review: John Wayne: The Life and Legend

By Robert Horton
April 21, 2014
Scott Eyman's thorough biography shows us another side of The Duke