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TCM Diary: The Town That Dreaded Sundown

By Chris Shields
October 29, 2019
Baggy monsters: Charles B. Pierce’s 1976 proto-slasher film provided the basic structural DNA for countless imitators

Close Reading: Martin Eden

By Peter Kim George
October 29, 2019
A man alone: our latest dispatch from the NYFF Critics Academy looks at director Pietro Marcello’s tale of a writer’s rise

Interview: Jessica Sarah Rinland

By Jordan Cronk
October 28, 2019
Copy that: the artist and director on her aesthetically intoxicating new film Those That, at a Distance, Resemble Another

News to Me: Imperial Disney, Halloween horrors, and a decade in review

By James Wham
October 28, 2019
Give the people what they want: our new issue, list season begins, and the Dardennes’ diaries

Deep Focus: The Kill Team

By Michael Sragow
October 25, 2019
Killing in the name of: in his gutsy first feature, Dan Krauss tells a tale of American war-making gone very wrong

Film of the Week: Burning Cane

By Jonathan Romney
October 24, 2019
Saving grace: 19-year-old Phillip Youmans’s debut has a rough-edged dynamism and emotional intensity

Present Tense: Audience vs. Alone

By Sheila O'Malley
October 24, 2019
On an island: what we lose—and gain—when we watch alone

Queer & Now & Then: 1944

By Michael Koresky
October 23, 2019
Out of the shadows: The Uninvited’s phantom lesbianism is exhilarating in making its subtext almost visible

The Film Comment Podcast: Robert Eggers on The Lighthouse

By Nicolas Rapold
October 23, 2019
Salty dogs: the director on the art, craft, and angst of bringing his brine-encrusted and mind-bending vision to the screen

Interview: Pedro Almodóvar

By Carlos Reviriego
October 22, 2019
Life and how to live it: the director of Pain and Glory on autobiography, drug use, nostalgia, and more