Film Comment magazine

08/09/2024

Film at Lincoln Center announces the participants for its 2024 FLC Artists Academy and FLC Critics Academy, which will take place during the 62nd New York Film Festival.

09/06/2024

On this week's podcast from , Devika Girish speaks with programmers and filmmakers about documentary ethics & what equitable collaboration looks like in nonfiction filmmaking.

Real deal: Kiyoko McCrae, Adam Piron, Alemberg Ang, and Viv Li discuss what equitable collaboration looks like in nonfiction filmmaking

09/06/2024

"I think cinema makes too much effort to convince audiences that they’re seeing something of this world. But we’re not; we’re seeing the parallel world of cinema, with different laws."

GRAND TOUR director Miguel Gomes speaks to Dennis Lim at .

Get on board: the director of Tabu and Arabian Nights discusses his latest, a feat of disjunctive and suggestive montage that never stays still

09/06/2024

"A wound is an event. A scar is a story, and Theron’s Furiosa was covered in stories all the more compelling for never having been explicitly told."

Jessica Kiang reviews George Miller's FURIOSA: A MAD MAX SAGA, issuing a diagnosis of acute prequelitis.

Running on empty: Furiosa boasts all the spectacle and speed of Fury Road, but little of the story momentum, little of the surprise

25/05/2024

"Maybe this is the reason I am now disenchanted with documentary—in the end, documentary is never delivering truth, it’s delivering believability. It is a politically catastrophic tool."

THE DAMNED director Roberto Minervini speaks to Devika Girish at .

Crossing the rubicon: the Italian filmmaker discusses his new Civil War–era period movie, which both restages a moment in America’s past and documents present-day Americans reflecting on the process of nation-making

25/05/2024

"What flabbergasted me is that the film has champions, at least according to early reactions and the dubious measuring stick of the standing ovation (eleven minutes, among the longest of Cannes 2024 to date)."

Beatrice Loayza files a dispatch from .

Things have changed: Beatrice Loayza reports from the festival's midpoint, offering reactions to Jacques Audiard's Emilia Pérez, Jia Zhangke's Caught by the Tides, and Patricia Mazuy's Visiting Hours

25/05/2024

On our ninth episode, New York Film Festival Artistic Director Dennis Lim and The New Yorker's Justin Chang join Devika Girish to review Payal Kapadia’s ALL WE IMAGINE AS LIGHT, Mohammed Rasoulof’s THE SEED OF THE SACRED FIG, and Truong Minh Quý’s VIET AND NAM, as well as discuss what this year's lineup says about the current state of cinema.

Let there be light: Dennis Lim and Justin Chang sit down to discuss late-festival selections All We Imagine as Light,The Seed of the Sacred Fig, Viet and Nam, and more

25/05/2024

For our eighth episode from sunny ☀️ , Beatrice Loayza, Giovanni Marchini Camia, and Caitlin Quinlan join Devika Girish to dig into Miguel Gomes’s GRAND TOUR, Alain Guiraudie’s MISERICORDIA, Mahdi Fleifel’s TO A LAND UNKNOWN, and Paolo Sorrentino’s PARTHENOPE.

Hard rain: critics Beatrice Loayza, Giovanni Marchini Camia, and Caitlin Quinlan discuss Miguel Gomes’s Grand Tour, Alain Guiraudie’s Misericordia, Mahdi Fliefel’s To a Land Unknown, and Paolo Sorrentino’s Parthenope

24/05/2024

For our latest episode from the ☀️ shores of Southern France, critics Guy Lodge and Adam Piron join Devika Girish to share their reactions to Jacques Audiard’s EMILIA PÉREZ and Sean Baker’s ANORA—before offering some personal recommendations for deserving films that aren’t getting the same hype treatment, including Sandhya Suri’s SANTOSH, Carson Lund’s EEPHUS, and Soi Cheang’s TWILIGHT OF THE WARRIORS: WALLED IN.

Party down: Guy Lodge and Adam Piron offer their reactions to Jacques Audiard’s Emilia Pérez and Sean Baker’s Anora before sharing some personal festival highlights

22/05/2024

On our latest episode, Robert Daniels, Miriam Bale, and Mark Asch join Devika Girish to discuss recent festival viewing, including David Cronenberg’s THE SHROUDS, Coralie Fargeat’s THE SUBSTANCE, Ali Abbasi’s THE APPRENTICE, and Claire Simon's ELEMENTARY.

Body and soul: critics Robert Daniels, Miriam Bale, and Mark Asch discuss recent festival premieres, including David Cronenberg’s The Shrouds, Coralie Fargeat’s The Substance, Claire Simon's Elementary, and more

20/05/2024

"As for the saturnalian excesses that you usually hope Cannes will provide, none this year can possibly be more opulently jaw-dropping than Francis Ford Coppola’s long-awaited dream project MEGALOPOLIS."

Jonathan Romney provides a dispatch from .

Bubble wrapped: this year's festival attempts to avoid the controversies rocking the outside world, providing a sealed-in microclimate for duds and indulgences like Quentin Dupieux's The Second Act and Francis Ford Coppola's Megalopolis

20/05/2024

For our fifth episode from , Devika Girish is joined by Kevin B. Lee, Abby Sun, and Vadim Rizov to debate their differing reactions to Jia Zhangke’s CAUGHT BY THE TIDES, Paul Schrader’s OH, CANADA, Guy Maddin, Evan Johnson, and Galen Johnson’s RUMOURS, Patricia Mazuy’s VISITING HOURS, and Matthew Rankin’s UNIVERSAL LANGUAGE.

Kinds of Canadians: Kevin B. Lee, Abby Sun, and Vadim Rizov join to discuss new films by Jia Zhangke, Paul Schrader, Matthew Rankin, and more

19/05/2024

On our fourth podcast from , Devika Girish speaks to Canadian filmmakers Guy Maddin, Evan Johnson, and Galen Johnson about their new film RUMOURS, a horror comedy featuring Cate Blanchett that's one of the true delights of the festival so far.

Second hand news: Guy Maddin, Evan Johnson, and Galen Johnson join to discuss their latest, Cannes 2024 highlight Rumours

18/05/2024

For our third podcast episode from , critics Kelli Weston and Jessica Kiang join Devika Girish to unpack three highly anticipated premieres: Francis Ford Coppola’s MEGALOPOLIS, Andrea Arnold’s BIRD, and Yorgos Lanthimos’s KINDS OF KINDNESS.

Fool’s errands: Kelli Weston and Jessica Kiang join to unpack Francis Ford Coppola’s Megalopolis, Andrea Arnold’s Bird, and Yorgos Lanthimos’s Kinds of Kindness

18/05/2024

For our second podcast from , Devika Girish is joined by Bilge Ebiri and Jonathan Romney to discuss and debate George Miller’s FURIOSA: A MAD MAX SAGA, Roberto Minervini’s THE DAMNED, Magnus van Horn’s THE GIRL WITH THE NEEDLE & more selections.

Born to be wild: Bilge Ebiri and Jonathan Romney join to discuss early festival selections Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga, The Girls With the Needle, On Becoming a Guinea Fowl, and many more

18/05/2024

Kicking off our coverage, Devika Girish is joined on the podcast by FC contributor Beatrice Loayza and Sight and Sound’s Isabel Stevens to debate the opening night film, Quentin Dupieux’s THE SECOND ACT, as well as Agathe Riedinger’s WILD DIAMOND & more recently screened selections.

Bonne projection: Beatrice Loayza and Isabel Stevens join to kick off our Cannes 2024 coverage, debating new films by Quentin Dupieux, Sophie Fillières, and Agathe Riedinger

17/05/2024

"I think the way the film ends is my reaction to the responses that I’ve received to my filmmaking, and a way for me to say that film is something that is not understandable."

Director Ryûsuke Hamaguchi speaks with Clinton Krute about EVIL DOES NOT EXIST.

Natural's not in it: the Japanese director discusses coincidence and confusion in his latest, which places the shape-shifting music of Eiko Ishibashi front and center

17/05/2024

"Set to a synth-heavy soundtrack by Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross, the focal match is electric and unpredictable (even when the actual quality of the tennis is poor)."

Sanoja Bhaumik reviews Luca Guadagnino's tennis love triangle CHALLENGERS.

Serve and volley: Luca Guadagnino’s Challengers is a tennis love triangle where the building tension between the players is consistently frustrated by their physical separation—a basic rule of the sport