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The Film Comment Podcast: The Maverick Movies of Melvin Van Peebles

By Film Comment
May 11, 2021
Man in the mirror: with The Story of a Three Day Pass returning to screens, Ephraim Asili and Blair McClendon join to discuss Van Peebles's groundbreaking work

Monte Hellman’s Two-Lane Blacktop

By Sheila O'Malley
May 10, 2021
One for the road: a tribute to the late director and his minimalist, elliptical masterpiece

Moviegoing Then and Now

By Molly Haskell
May 10, 2021
Out of the past: the critic reflects on moviegoing across the years and her enchantment with spectacle both big and small

The Film Comment Podcast: Roy Andersson’s About Endlessness

By Film Comment
May 4, 2021
Alone together: Imogen Sara Smith and Jonathan Romney on Andersson's typically hilarious and harrowing latest

The Film Comment Podcast: New Directors/New Films 2021

By Film Comment
April 27, 2021
Trees company: critics Chloe Lizotte and Vadim Rizov join to discuss the 50th-anniversary edition of the festival

The Film Comment Podcast: Trans Cinema Roundtable

By Film Comment
April 20, 2021
Framing the conversation: a quartet of critics and filmmakers reflect on trans film images

The Film Comment Podcast: At Home, Oscars Edition

By Film Comment
April 13, 2021
It's Academic: guests A.S. Hamrah and Blair McClendon on notable nominees Sound of Metal, Nomadland, Judas and the Black Messiah, and more

Submit questions for the Film Comment Podcast’s Trans Cinema Roundtable!

By Film Comment
April 12, 2021
Send us your questions by noon ET on Thursday (4/16) and we’ll pose them to our panel during the recording

The Film Comment Podcast: Raoul Peck on Exterminate All the Brutes

By Devika Girish
April 6, 2021
Time after time: the Haitian filmmaker discusses his new series, a kaleidoscopic exploration of the origins of white supremacy

The Film Comment Podcast: Adam Curtis’s Can’t Get You Out of My Head

By Film Comment
March 30, 2021
Angel of history: Dan Sullivan and Violet Lucca join for a lively debate on the British documentarian's latest archival opus