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Interview: Denis Villeneuve

By David Gregory Lawson
February 26, 2014
From Bourgeois to Hitchcock: the director of Enemy speaks about mothers, discomfort, and the fantastique

Christian Petzold’s “Ghosts” trilogy

By Max Nelson
February 25, 2014
Money talks: German reunification and its discontents

Review: The Wind Rises

By Andrew Chan
February 24, 2014
Hayao Miyazaki's final animated feature asks some weighty questions, but fails to find the answers

Interview: Hany Abu-Assad

By Nicolas Rapold
February 24, 2014
The director of Omar talks about keeping a Palestinian political thriller real and discusses his planned remake of Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance

Rep Diary: The City Without Jews

By Aaron Cutler
February 24, 2014
After Caligari, Before Hitler: Hans Karl Breslauer's 1924 cinematic argument against anti-Semitism

Film Comment Selects: From the Source

By Max Nelson
February 22, 2014
A guided tour to this year's remaining offerings by the magazine's writers and editors

Review: Pompeii

By R. Emmet Sweeney
February 21, 2014
Ashes of time: the fury of Mount Vesuvius, now with 85 percent more oiled, exposed abs

Film of the Week: Child’s Pose

By Jonathan Romney
February 20, 2014
Mother loving: Romanian New Wave screenwriter Calin Peter Netzer's directorial debut observes a woman of privilege fussing over her grown son

Futures & Pasts: The Carey Treatment

By Nick Pinkerton
February 20, 2014
On the pleasures of Blake Edwards's low-budget Michael Crichton adaptation

Review: In Secret

By Emma Myers
February 19, 2014
A smoldering, star-studded adaptation of Emile Zola's Thérèse Raquin