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Film of the Week: Santiago, Italia

April 16, 2020

Walls and bridges: Nanni Moretti’s documentary is a straight, though moving, account of the refugees sheltered by the Italian embassy following the 1973 coup in Chile

Interview: Nadège Trebal

By Nicholas Elliott

April 14, 2020

Long kiss goodnight: the director of the madcap Twelve Thousand on her radically imaginative take on love and sex under late capitalism

The Film Comment Podcast: At Home #15

By Nicolas Rapold

April 13, 2020

Mano a mano: critic/programmers Ashley Clark and Eric Hynes join to discuss the present and future of cinema-going, and what they’ve been watching at home

News to Me: Bruce Baillie, David Lynch, and Pedro Almodóvar

By James Wham

April 13, 2020

In the flow: Claire Denis, High Maintenance, and the ongoing streaming takeover

Film of the Week: The Platform

By Jonathan Romney

April 10, 2020

Trickle-down economics: the class system takes visceral form in a Spanish dystopian horror film

Interview: Lois Patiño

By Jordan Cronk

April 9, 2020

Red sky at night: the Galician filmmaker on the unexpected discoveries that shaped his intoxicating narrative hybrid Red Moon Tide

Present Tense: Arizona Dream

By Sheila O'Malley

April 9, 2020

Flying high: the original 1993 cut of Emir Kusturica’s dreamlike vision of the American west captivates with an all-star cast, out-there humor, and emotion

The Film Comment Podcast: At Home #14

By Nicolas Rapold

April 8, 2020

Desperate times: critics David Bordwell and Imogen Sara Smith call in to discuss Japanese cinema, Douglas Sirk, Christian Petzold, Godard on Instagram, and more

Queer & Now & Then: 1965

By Michael Koresky

April 8, 2020

Brief encounter: Andy Milligan’s Vapors radiates passion, spontaneity, and a genuine drive that are unfakeable

The Film Comment Podcast: At Home #13

By Nicolas Rapold

April 7, 2020

Through the wire: critic-programmers Nellie Killian and Ed Halter on the Cinema Worker Solidarity Fund and the view from their bunkers