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The Film Comment Podcast: Berlinale 2020 Wrap-up

March 4, 2020

Straight talk: a discussion of festival highlights Los Conductos and There Is No Evil—plus, Orwa Nyrabia on documentary ethics

See This: March Picks

By Film Comment

March 3, 2020

Some recent and upcoming films that we feel deserve a little extra attention—brought to you by Warby Parker

TCM Diary: Freedom on Our Mind

By Justin Stewart

March 3, 2020

We shall overcome: two documentaries that place current fights for justice in crucial historical context

Interview: Sandra Wollner

By Nicolas Rapold

March 2, 2020

I, robot: Berlin award-winner The Trouble With Being Born escapes the predictable beats of robot parables through a creeping sense of technology as perpetuating trauma

News to Me: Berlinale, Mati Diop, and Céline Sciamma

By James Wham

March 2, 2020

Outward bound: Dušan Makavejev, Wes Anderson, and David Cronenberg

Interview: Cristi Puiu

By Jordan Cronk

February 28, 2020

Platonic roundtable: the director of Malmkrog and The Death of Mr. Lazarescu delves into the drama of dialogue in his latest, a Berlinale premiere

The Film Comment Podcast: Christian Petzold on Undine

By Devika Girish

February 28, 2020

Water under the bridge: Christian Petzold, director of Berlinale sensation Undine, talks about themes of romantic loss and betrayal in his work

Review: The Invisible Man

By Madeline Whittle

February 28, 2020

Now you see it: in Leigh Whannell’s update on H.G. Wells’s novel, the titular monster is liberated from the moral ambivalence of the old Universal antihero archetype

Deep Focus: Come and See

By Michael Sragow

February 28, 2020

Hell on earth: Elem Klimov's 1985 war movie has few rivals in laying bare the horrors of man's favorite sport

Film of the Week: Days

By Jonathan Romney

February 27, 2020

Talk soup: among Tsai’s narrative features, his latest is certainly the most spare—if there’s a narrative at all