Walks beside me: an inclusive, elastic understanding of modern queer lives emerges across Dag Johan ...

Erika Balsom is a reader in film studies at King’s College London and the co-editor of Feminist Worldmaking and the Moving ...

Film Comment hosted the author Malcolm Harris for a special event celebrating the launch of his latest book, What’s Left: ...

1. Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia Sam Peckinpah, 1974 2. Claire’s Knee Eric Rohmer, 1970 3. Faces John Cassavetes, 1968 4. Eyes Without a Face Georges Franju, 1960 5. Eyes Wide Shut Stanley ...

Heroes and villains: the festival largely made good on its promise to show socially relevant works from independent and early ...

One of our favorite movies of 2025 so far is Sarah Friedland’s debut feature Familiar Touch, which opens in theaters in New York on Friday, June 20. The film follows an octogenarian with dementia, ...

(Bruce McDonald, Canada, 2008)Early on a frigid Valentine’s morning in some desolate village within the Ontario hinterland, talk radio DJ Grant Mazzy (Stephen McHattie) is assailed by an unidentified ...

1. L’Argent Robert Bresson, 1983 2. Gertrud Carl Theodor Dreyer, 1964 3. F for Fake Orson Welles, 1975 4. An Autumn Afternoon Yasujiro Ozu, 1962 5. Lola Montès Max Ophuls, 1955 6. Yi Yi Edward Yang, ...

In his office at Walt Disney Studios in Burbank, California, the 32-year-old actor is courteous and humorous, shrugging off the future as capable of taking care of itself. Charming and intelligent, ...

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All change at Locarno? Well, yes and no. While festival president Marco Solari announced plans to expand the festival, the appointment of Locarno insider Carlo Chatrian as artistic director, following ...

(Aaron Wilson, Australia/Singapore, 2013)World War II films tend to reflect the immensity of the conflict in the scale of the production. On a fraction of the usual budget, Canopy adopts a more modest ...