Film Comment Magazine

Now online from The Film Comment Letter: Katie Kirkland (@krklndsignature) reports from @MoMAFilm’s Doc Fortnight festival, where new films by Anocha Suwichakornpong, Ross McElwee, and Bani Khoshnoudi were standouts. filmcomment.com/blog/doc-fortn…

For the latest episode of The Film Comment Podcast, we’ve teamed up with the @LAReviewofBooks Radio Hour to discuss and debate this year’s Oscar trends, snubs, favorites, predictions, and more. filmcomment.com/blog/the-film-…

So grateful to talk to Ross about his amazing and difficult film.

Ross McElwee speaks with David Schwartz about his first feature in over a decade—an emotionally devastating and intricately layered letter to his son, which screens this week @MoMAFilm as part of their Doc Fortnight festival. filmcomment.com/blog/interview…

Now online from The Film Comment Letter: Jonathan Romney reports from Berlin, writing on Abdallah Alkhatib’s CHRONICLES FROM THE SIEGE, İlker Çatak’s YELLOW LETTERS, Markus Schleinzer’s ROSE, and more. filmcomment.com/blog/berlinale…

For the latest episode of The Film Comment Podcast, director Akinola Davies Jr. joins to discuss his elliptical, atmospheric debut feature My Father’s Shadow, set in 1993 in Nigeria. filmcomment.com/blog/the-film-…

Film scholar Scott MacDonald speaks with Paul Attard about programming an upcoming series @AnthologyFilm with his former students, the films he can’t avoid showing first-year undergrads, and what it truly means to “comprehend” cinema. filmcomment.com/blog/interview…

Me on IFFR 2026 (@IFFR) and new films by João Nicolau (PROVIDENCE AND THE GUITAR, James N. Kienitz Wilkins (THE MISCONCEIVED), Charlotte Zhang (TYCOON), and Jack Auen and Kevin Walker (CHRONOVISOR), for @FilmComment. filmcomment.com/blog/iffr-2026…

Jordan Cronk (@JordanCronk) reports from this year’s International Film Festival Rotterdam, where highlights included James N. Kienitz Wilkins’s THE MISCONCEIVED, Charlotte Zhang’s TYCOON, and Jack Auen and Kevin Walker’s CHRONOVISOR. filmcomment.com/blog/iffr-2026…

“Maybe, because it’s 2026, and we are all so very tired, it’s that we are getting the Wuthering Heights we deserve: a limp one.” @genevieveyue on Emerald Fennell’s reimagining of Emily Brontë’s classic. filmcomment.com/blog/withering…

Akinola Davies Jr.’s debut feature MY FATHER’S SHADOW is now playing in limited release. Listen to our Podcast discussion on the film from last year’s Cannes, with critics Miriam Bale, Robert Daniels, and Jessica Kiang. filmcomment.com/blog/the-film-…

For the latest episode of The Film Comment Podcast, critic and curator Ashley Clark joins Devika Girish (@devikagirgayi) to discuss his new book, THE WORLD OF BLACK FILM. filmcomment.com/blog/the-film-…

“Catherine O’Hara’s Marilyn Hack in For Your Consideration is a jaw-dropper, flying kamikaze-style into one of the scariest fixtures of celebrity culture.” In tribute to the great Catherine O’Hara, read Kent Jones’s 2006 essay on Christopher Guest’s films filmcomment.com/article/all-in…

“What has distinguished Sundance is that it was created by a film star who believed, somewhat paradoxically, that the value of a movie was not determined by box-office receipts but by the community it built.” Amy Taubin writes on Sundance 2026. filmcomment.com/blog/sundance-…

“I’m really interested in the seasons and the temperament of the weather: the beauty and the brutality of it, these contrasts of cold and warm, stillness and storm.” Hlynur Pálmason on his latest THE LOVE THAT REMAINS, currently playing in theaters. filmcomment.com/blog/interview…

The great Molly Haskell.

Read Molly Haskell’s 2017 essay on one of Max Ophuls’s masterpieces, screening tonight @Metrograph as part of a monthlong Ophuls retrospective.

“If LETTER FROM AN UNKNOWN WOMAN still speaks to us, it’s because, for all of our sexual freedom and supposed autonomy, many of us still secretly yearn to fall headlong into the drama of an all-encompassing, life-defining love.” filmcomment.com/blog/ive-seen-…

Devika Girish (@devikagirgayi) reports from Sundance 2026, where highlights included William and David Greaves’s ONCE UPON A TIME IN HARLEM, Gregg Araki’s I WANT YOUR SEX, Walter Thompson-Hernández’s IF I GO WILL THEY MISS ME, and more. filmcomment.com/blog/sundance-…

For our final Podcast from Sundance 2026, @BilgeEbiri, @TimGrierson, and @maddiewhittle join FC Editor @devikagirgayi to close thing out, debating THE WEIGHT, WHEN A WITNESS RECANTS, CHASING SUMMER, and more. filmcomment.com/blog/the-film-…