The Film Comment Podcast
1) Cannes 2026 #1, with Jonathan Romney and Beatrice Loayza
Cannes 2026 has arrived, and the Film Comment crew is on the ground, ready to cut through the noise with dispatches, interviews, Podcasts, a special Cannes Critics’ Grid, and much more. This year's ed...Show More
2) Boots Riley on I Love Boosters
On this week’s Podcast, Boots Riley joins to discuss his new film, I Love Boosters. The director of 2018’s Sorry to Bother You and the 2023 streaming series I’m a Virgo has returned with a movie that ...Show More
3) In Conversation with George Clooney
Next week, on Monday, April 27, Film at Lincoln Center honors George Clooney with their annual Chaplin Award. Clooney has been a shining star in the American media firmament since the 1990s, from his ...Show More
4) Melissa Anderson on The Hunger
For more than two decades, Melissa Anderson has been one of New York City’s most important film critics—and one of Film Comment’s favorite writers. From her start as a freelancer in the 2000s, through...Show More
5) The Films of Peter Watkins, with J. Hoberman
On October 30 of last year, we lost one of cinema’s most daring auteurs: the British director Peter Watkins. Starting out in television in the 1960s, Watkins developed an utterly unique and militantly...Show More
6) Oscars 2026 Preview, with the Los Angeles Review of Books
It’s that time of year again: the Academy Awards are just around the corner. In anticipation of the winners being revealed this Sunday, Devika and Clint teamed up with some colleagues from Tinseltown—...Show More
7) Akinola Davies Jr. on My Father’s Shadow
Set in Nigeria in 1993, Akinola Davies Jr.’s elliptical, atmospheric My Father’s Shadow is a portrait of a country on the cusp of a political crisis. We experience these events through the eyes of the...Show More
8) Ashley Clark on The World of Black Film
Across his contributions to Film Comment and other publications, and his programming as the Curatorial Director of the Criterion Collection, Ashley Clark has established himself as one of the smartest...Show More
9) Sundance 2026 #5, with Bilge Ebiri, Tim Grierson, and Madeline Whittle
It's late January, and the intrepid Film Comment crew has been on the ground reporting from an extra special edition of the Sundance Film Festival—the last to take place on the snowy slopes of Park Ci...Show More
10) Sundance 2026 #4, with Robert Daniels, Will Tavlin, and Natalia Winkelman
It's late January, and the intrepid Film Comment crew is on the ground reporting from an extra special edition of the Sundance Film Festival—the last to take place on the snowy slopes of Park City, Ut...Show More