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The Film Comment Podcast: Robert Eggers on The Lighthouse

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

Close Reading: To the Ends of the Earth

By Moeko Fujii

October 21, 2019

A star is forlorn: the latest dispatch from the NYFF Critics Academy looks at Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s meditation on the fantasies we map on to foreign lands

News to Me: Robert Eggers, Béla Tarr, and evil movies

By James Wham

October 21, 2019

On the road again: Powell & Pressburger, Dan Sallitt, and the return of the Paris Theatre

Film of the Week: Jojo Rabbit

By Jonathan Romney

October 18, 2019

Little monsters: Taika Waititi's latest seems to believe that fascism is a bad joke that can be overcome with good humor

Parasite, Portrait of a Lady on Fire, and Fire Will Come

By Mara Theodoropoulou

October 17, 2019

Flaming creatures: our latest NYFF Critics Academy dispatch shines a light on three festival standouts

Interview: Philipp Fleischmann

By Jordan Cronk

October 17, 2019

In space and time: the experimental filmmaker on building his own cameras, the politics of light, and cinema’s uneasy standing within the art world

The Film Comment Podcast: Bong Joon Ho’s Parasite

By Nicolas Rapold

October 16, 2019

As above, so below: Amy Taubin and Michael Koresky join for a discussion of Bong Joon Ho’s Oscar-winning sensation

Close Reading: Liberté

By Beatrice Loayza

October 16, 2019

Dancers in the dark: a dispatch from the NYFF Critics Academy, on the power of impotence in Albert Serra’s latest

The Film Comment Podcast: Tim Heidecker and Gregg Turkington

By Nicolas Rapold

October 15, 2019

Wave that flag: the comedy duo on their new feature, a political satire and extension of the On Cinema at the Cinema story