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Mining Possibility: The 1983 Bolivian Miners’ Film Workshop

By Lucia Ahrensdorf

January 21, 2025

Life underground: how a notorious Nazi’s extradition from Bolivia gave rise to a radical film project in a mining town

The Film Comment Podcast: Robert Eggers on Nosferatu

By Film Comment

January 15, 2025

Count me in: the American filmmaker discusses why he wanted to make Dracula “scary” again

The Film Comment Podcast: Mike Leigh on Hard Truths

By Film Comment

January 14, 2025

Home sweet home: the renowned British filmmaker discusses his latest, which reunites him with the great Marianne Jean-Baptiste

What’s In the Box?

By Chris Shields & Sarah Fensom

January 13, 2025

Look again: boutique DVD and Blu-ray labels like Fun City Editions, Arbelos Films, and Vinegar Syndrome play a crucial role in sustaining canon-flouting cinema

Dream Baby Dream

By Garon Scott

January 13, 2025

Signed, sealed, delivered: Robert Eggers‘s Nosferatu projects a corrupted self-image of empire

The Film Comment Podcast: New Year, New Releases

By Film Comment

January 8, 2025

Ballad of a thin man: critic Lovia Gyarkye and Film Comment‘s Michael Blair join to discuss James Mangold‘s A Complete Unknown, Robert Eggers‘s Nosferatu, and more

The Inaugural San Quentin Film Festival

By Kevin D. Sawyer

January 7, 2025

Bastille on the Bay: the two-day event held at San Quentin Rehabilitation Center in California involved movies, awards, and Hollywood guests

Prison Movie Wives’ Black Heart Movie Diary: Best of 2024

By Sara Kielly, Courtney McDonell, and Jessica Sims

January 6, 2025

For old acquaintance: three incarcerated critics review the best films they saw this year

The Best Shorts of 2024

By Inney Prakash

December 20, 2024

The long and short of it: the strongest, strangest, and boldest shorter films of 2024

The Best Restorations of 2024

By Gina Telaroli

December 20, 2024

In with the old: the best restorations, preservations, reprints, and remasters of 2024