Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey offers up a strangely bloodless and dour vision of Homer’s lively world of men and gods ...

Balls of Fire. This year’s edition of the Italian festival devoted to restored and rediscovered films brought the hea ...

Robert Daniels joins to discuss festival highlights Dao, The Hanging of Stuart Cornfeld, 3 Weeks After, and more ...

Critics Robert Daniels and Guy Lodge join to discuss a pair of buzzed-about Bulgarian films and other highlights from the ...

Critic Pavel Sladký and programmer Irena Kovarova kick off our coverage from the Czech festival’s 60th edition ...

Writing about Monte Hellman’s 1966 deathtrip Western The Shooting in the pages of FILM COMMENT in 2000, Chuck Stephens refers to the name of Warren Oates’s character, “Willet Gashade,” as “a moniker ...

How did you come to Batman Begins, and what appealed to you about rebooting a series that had already been interpreted by Tim Burton and Joel Schumacher? It’s a sign of how quickly things change in ...

Writer-director Trey Edward Shults’s feature debut unfolds almost entirely within and around a spacious suburban Montgomery, Texas home, a single location that Shults renders a maze of chambers where ...

Every year, we also seek to recognize those films that did not come out in theaters in the U.S. for a full theatrical run. All of the below films had no announced U.S. distribution at press time, but ...

In any year other than 2015, I’d have been, say, 75 percent in agreement with the decision to award the Cannes Palme d’Or to Jacques Audiard’s Dheepan. If the extraordinary Son of Saul hadn’t been in ...

From the Sept-Oct 1986 Midsection, “Five Restless Voices,” Marlaine Glicksman talks to the filmmaker about She’s Gotta Have It. Marlaine Glicksman Read this story as part of the archived issue. You so ...

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