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Film of the Week: In Fabric

By Jonathan Romney
December 6, 2019
Dressed to kill: Peter Strickland’s latest is an essay in comic horror, pairing two stories about an apparently cursed or haunted red dress

Present Tense: Kristen Stewart

By Sheila O'Malley
December 5, 2019
A natural fit: thoughts on the mercurial talents of an actress who lets us see her discomfort and shyness

Queer & Now & Then: 1936

By Michael Koresky
December 4, 2019
J'accuse!: William Wyler’s These Three is a fascinating, recalibrated tale with traces of the queer themes of its source material

The Film Comment Podcast: The Decade Project #1

By Nicolas Rapold
December 4, 2019
Over your shoulder: the first in a series of looks back at the major tectonic shifts, themes, and films of the past ten years

Higher Learning: Renoir’s India

By Priya Jaikumar
December 3, 2019
Out of place: a reverse ethnography of Jean Renoir’s The River

Year-End Critics’ Polls Roundup

By Film Comment
December 3, 2019
The last twenty years of Film Comment’s best-of lists

News to Me: Atlantics, The Irishman, and listmania

By James Wham
December 2, 2019
Listing: Netflix on the big screen, new Japanese cinema, and more

Film of the Week: 63 Up

By Jonathan Romney
November 29, 2019
Lifetime piling up: Michael Apted's historic experiment in long-term biography enters the silver age with another ripping good installment, 63 Up

Inspired: Feast of the Epiphany

By Michael Koresky
November 27, 2019
Table manners: the inspirations behind the sumptuous documentary-fiction hybrid from Koresky, Jeff Reichert, and Farihah Zaman

The Film Comment Podcast: Martin Scorsese and The Irishman

By Nicolas Rapold
November 27, 2019
Man of the people: Molly Haskell, Shonni Enelow, and Michael Koresky join to discuss how the elegiac epic fits into the filmmaker’s body of work