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The Film Comment Podcast: The Rep Report #9

By Nicolas Rapold
August 7, 2019
Brave new world: a series at Film at Lincoln Center looks at America through the eyes of artists born abroad

Dispatch: Karlovy Vary 2019

By Nick Pinkerton
August 6, 2019
Free at last: old specters returned to haunt this year's edition of the Czech festival

News to Me: NYFF57, Mati Diop, and Toni Morrison

By Film Comment
August 6, 2019
Beginnings and ends: the return of Pedro Costa, the vagaries of the movie-theater business, and the pleasures of durational cinema

Deep Focus: The Operative and Piranhas

By Michael Sragow
August 2, 2019
Adapting to the times: two intelligent though uninspired genre movies streamline events that play out more lucidly in their source books

Higher Learning: Chromatic Modernity

By Sarah Street and Joshua Yumibe
August 2, 2019
Technicolor dreams: our modern sense of color as a standardized commodity is intertwined with the history of cinema

Dispatch: FIDMarseille 2019

By Christopher Small
August 1, 2019
Truth in fiction: all the notable films at this year’s festival played fast and loose with the outer limits of their fictions

Film of the Week: Tel Aviv on Fire

By Jonathan Romney
August 1, 2019
Conversational divide: Sameh Zoabi’s comedy engages with questions of history, politics, and cultural difference—and similarity

The Film Comment Podcast: Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood

By Nicolas Rapold
July 31, 2019
Hanging on the line: on the accomplishments and significance of Tarantino’s latest

Queer & Now & Then: 1975

By Michael Koresky
July 31, 2019
Cleaning up well: Saturday Night at the Baths is part charmingly awkward coming-out narrative, part document of a disappearing culture

Classified: Eco-Horror

By April Wolfe
July 29, 2019
Natural reactions: cinema’s history of depicting nature as brute force equalizer and death dealer