The Film Comment Podcast
1) Kleber Mendonça Filho on The Secret Agent
This week’s Podcast features an in-depth interview with Brazilian filmmaker Kleber Mendonça Filho, whose latest feature, The Secret Agent, is in select theaters now. The film was a highlight of both t...Show More
2) Noah Baumbach on Jay Kelly
This week, Film Comment Editors Devika Girish and Clinton Krute sit down with writer-director Noah Baumbach, whose new feature, Jay Kelly, is in select theaters now. The movie stars George Clooney as ...Show More
3) Tokyo International Film Festival #3, with Aiko Masubuchi
Last week, Devika returned from the Tokyo International Film Festival, which ran from October 27 to November 5 in the Japanese capital. As one of the major festivals in Asia, the event is a great show...Show More
4) Tokyo International Film Festival #2, with Kambole Campbell and Sasha Han
Last week, Devika returned from the Tokyo International Film Festival, which ran from October 27 to November 5 in the Japanese capital. As one of the major festivals in Asia, the event is a great show...Show More
5) Tokyo International Film Festival #1, with Vadim Rizov and Kong Rithdee
Last week, Devika returned from the Tokyo International Film Festival, which ran from October 27 to November 5 in the Japanese capital. As one of the major festivals in Asia, the event is a great show...Show More
6) Paul Thomas Anderson’s One Battle After Another, with Miriam Bale and Adam Piron
Paul Thomas Anderson’s One Battle After Another has been the talk of the town since its wide release last month—from critics to filmmakers to audiences, the reception has been nothing short of euphori...Show More
7) NYFF63 Festival Report, with Molly Haskell, J. Hoberman, and Beatrice Loayza
As the 63rd New York Film Festival drew to a close last weekend, it was once again time for Film Comment’s Festival Report, our annual live overview of the NYFF that was. FC Editor Clinton Krute was j...Show More
8) Gianfranco Rosi on Below the Clouds
One of the highlights of this year’s New York Film Festival is the latest feature by the nonfiction master Gianfranco Rosi, known for documentaries like Sacro GRA (2013), Fire at Sea (2016), and Nottu...Show More
9) Stealing Time, with Kelly Reichardt, Kent Jones, and Lucio Castro
Three films in this year’s NYFF lineup explore the intersections of quotidian life and the arts, following artists whose efforts to make time and space for their creative passions are thwarted or frus...Show More
10) Spinal Tap on Spinal Tap II: The End Continues
“That’s the majesty of rock / The mystery of roll / The darning of the sock / The scoring of the goal / The farmer takes a wife / The barber takes a pole / We’re in this together…and ever.” These lyri...Show More