Neo Sora‘s Happyend and Lilith Kraxner and Milena Czernovsky‘s bluish present visions of urban quiet ...

This article appeared in the November 27, 2024 edition of The Film Comment Letter, our free weekly newsletter featuring ...

My neighbor in Carroll Gardens, Brooklyn installs an elaborate Halloween display every October, with severed heads, killer clowns, vampire bats, and even a freshly dug grave. The centerpiece of these ...

Early in Rite of Spring (1962), Manoel de Oliveira frames a procession of peasants dressed as Roman soldiers through the windshield of a Chevrolet, the rolling hills of Portugal’s rural Trás-os-Montes ...

This article appeared in the November 8, 2024 edition of The Film Comment Letter, our free weekly newsletter featuring original film criticism and writing. Sign up for the Letter here. Guns (Robert ...

There is something oddly indeterminate about the Korean title of Hong Sangsoo’s 31st feature, whose English translation is A Traveler’s Needs. While “여행자의 필요” is a grammatically correct phrase, it is ...

I had the last of my six colposcopy surgeries—a procedure that cuts out cancerous cells from a cervix—in December 2020. To commemorate the one-year anniversary in 2021, I did my makeup, put on a ...

When the cast of Robert Zemeckis’s Here was announced two years ago, Gump-heads rejoiced. Three decades after Forrest Gump (1994), Tom Hanks and Robin Wright were reuniting with Zemeckis (along with ...

Secrets are a lot like psychological versions of Chekhov’s guns. Stories that introduce them are really building up to the moment when they’re inevitably revealed. But writer-director Lulu Wang ...

As told to Manu Yáñez Murillo. This is an extended version of an article that appears the May-June issue of Film Comment. I first knew about Raúl Ruiz through my father, Luis Alarcón, who was a ...