This week and next, Film Comment is reporting from the picturesque shores of the Lido di Venezia, where the Venice Film ...

Jonathan Romney and Tim Grierson debate festival premieres Oasis: Don’t Look Back in Anger, Woman Unknown, and more ...

Toukhy’s Woman Unknown and Lee Chang-dong’s Possible Love have emerged from what has otherwise been the festival’s weakest ...

Bilge Ebiri and Guy Lodge join to discuss Danny Boyle’s Ink, Lee Chang-dong’s Possible Love, and Robert Greene’s Too Much Sugar ...

Critics Miriam Bale and Öykü Sofuoğlu discuss new films from Werner Herzog, Martin McDonagh, Paul Schrader, and more ...

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Wild at Heart (David Lynch, 1990). Courtesy of Shutterstock. Mostly, though, I’d just been hot. Bologna’s notoriously under-air-conditioned cinemas struggled to offset the record-breaking heatwave, ...

In 1979, star Disney animator Don Bluth exited the work-in-progress The Fox and the Hound (1981) and rebelled against the hegemony of the Mouse by starting his own indie studio, Don Bluth Productions.

I recently wrote to a colleague in Paris that I thought Radu Jude—the prolific author of farcical tragicomedies about our contemporary lives under surveillance, diminished by rapacious capital, ...

Cannes 2026 is finally nearing its close—and the Film Comment crew has been on the ground for the last two weeks, cutting through the noise with dispatches, interviews, Podcasts, a special Cannes ...

What would it mean for a film to meet the moment, especially a moment as calamitous as ours? To be honest, the very thought rings alarm bells: many recent movies that are said to have accomplished ...

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