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The Film Comment Podcast: The Films of Christopher Harris

In a silent way: Christopher Harris joins to discuss the origins of his filmmaking in his youthful ambition to be musician, his interest in stillness and silence as structuring concepts, and why his work is always as fun as it is challenging and erudite
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Love and Death: TIFF 2024

Candid camera: this year's festival offered an array of welcome surprises, including highlights like Mike Leigh's Hard Truths, Luca Guadagnino’s Queer, Nicolás Pereda Lázaro at Night, and more
Read José Teodoro's Essay

Bad Blood

Trick mirror: The Substance seems inescapably in thrall to the seductive, glossy surfaces of Hollywood beauty standards that it is supposedly skewering
Read Miriam Balanescu's Essay

The Built Environment: Venice 2024

By Jordan Cronk
Debris slide: highlights from this year's edition included Brady Corbet's sweeping historical drama The Brutalist, Singaporean director Yeo Siew Hua's surveillance thriller Stranger Eyes, and Alex Ross Perry's prismatic portrait of the iconic ’90s band Pavement

The Film Comment Podcast: Toronto 2024 #4

Bells ring: for our final Podcast from TIFF 2024, David Schwartz, Saffron Maeve, and Robert Daniels join to discuss shorts in the Wavelengths program, as well as features from Muhammed Hamdy, Wang Bing, and Luca Guadagnino

Interview: Alain Guiraudie on Misericordia

By Giovanni Marchini Camia
Midnight confessions: the novelist and filmmaker discusses his new noir comedy, which follows a young man who returns to his hometown in the French countryside and finds himself embroiled in an unpredictable (and increasingly dangerous) game of lust

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Light Work

A Key for Every Lock

By Devika Girish
How to save a theater: members of the La Clef Revival collective share key insights from their successful campaign to reopen their beloved Parisian cinema

Features

Views From Home

By Katie Kirkland
Collective horizons: a new series at Anthology Film Archives showcases the multifaceted work of Palestinian filmmakers and sisters Emily and Annemarie Jacir

Features

Prison Movie Wives’ Black Heart Movie Diary

By Sara Kielly
Screen time: incarcerated writer Sara Kielly offers a snapshot of a weekend’s worth of movie-watching at New York State’s Bedford Hills Correctional Facility

Reviews

“I am innocent because I am innocent”

By J. Hoberman
Righteous outlaw: The Goldman Case is a brilliant example of a courtroom drama that eschews familiar tropes, placing an individual subject into the context of a larger, historical subject in scrupulously open-ended fashion

Festivals

Sell Out: Locarno 2024

By Devika Girish
Buy now, pay later: at this year's festival, films by Radu Jude, Courtney Stephens, and Wang Bing explored advertisements, infomercials, and the lives of factory workers in an attempt to pull back the veil of the market

Festivals

Aged to Perfection: Locarno 2024

By Inney Prakash
Drunk in my past: this year's festival offered a feast of repertory delights, from a Columbia Pictures centenary program to an appearance by none other than Shah Rukh Khan