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Cannes 2021: The First Days

July 12, 2021

So may we start: the festival's much-awaited 2021 edition featured a feast of opening premieres, from Leos Carax, Joanna Hogg, Mark Cousins, and more

The Film Comment Podcast: Happy Birthday, America!

By Film Comment

July 6, 2021

Born free: critic A.S. Hamrah brings a baker’s dozen of extremely bleak films about the home of the brave to the potluck table

Film Comment Recommends: Summer of Soul

By Devika Girish

July 6, 2021

The pleasure of this archival concert film is in watching a symphony of performance and reception, call-and-response

Film Comment Recommends: Spring Blossom

By Devika Girish

July 6, 2021

Suzanne Lindon’s debut captures the thrill of first passion and heartbreak, but without sordid clichés

Close to Life

By Blair McClendon

July 5, 2021

Time regained: a revelatory exhibition pulls together a series of performances and film work from the multi-talented artist Bill Gunn

The Film Comment Podcast: Erika Balsom on James Benning’s Ten Skies

By Clinton Krute

June 29, 2021

Smoke gets in your eyes: the critic and scholar joins to discuss her new book about Benning’s 2004 film

Richard Rush and The Stunt Man

By Michael Sragow

June 28, 2021

Man on wire: no director ever lived up to his last name better than Rush did in the Peter O’Toole-starring The Stunt Man

Last Exit

By Kelli Weston

June 28, 2021

Magic kingdom: Zola is an effortlessly funny and dark fable of a Black woman seeking escape from life’s monotony

The Film Comment Podcast: New Red Order

By Devika Girish

June 22, 2021

Home of the free: Adam Khalil, Zack Khalil, and Jackson Polys discuss their “public secret society” and its new exhibit, which questions our relationships to indigeneity

Film Comment Recommends: The Power of Kangwon Province

By Clinton Krute

June 21, 2021

Bridge over troubled water: Hong Sangsoo’s second movie employs a bravura narrative structure that elucidates the solipsistic lives of its protagonists