The format was initially a boon to amateurs. Now, with moviemaking gone digital, it’s the choice of auteurs like Darren Aronofsky and Kelly Reichardt.

Perspective shift: history was retold and resold at this year’s Cannes, in films like Martin Scorsese's Killers of the Flower Moon, Lisandro Alonso's Eureka, Alice Rohrwacher's La chimera, and others

In this shape-shifting exploration of creativity, couplehood, and artistic influence, Mia Hansen-Løve offers a glimpse at the existential heavy lift required by her deceptively simple autofictions.

Greta Gerwig’s energetic tour-de-force adaptation of Little Women frames the aspirations of Jo and her sisters as urgent matters of personal independence

Oceanic feeling: the German filmmaker talks about his latest, a slyly comedic chamber piece, which won the Silver Bear Grand Jury Prize at last month’s Berlinale

Walkin‘ the talk: at this year's Berlinale, strikes and protests exposed a crisis of agency for art workers

Testing the border limits of cinephilia by returning to films from other countries that made impressions on us at impressionable ages.

The director, an eminence of American and African indie cinema, is being recognized by the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures and Netflix. But he has long rejected the industry.

With movies that spoke urgently to the nation post-independence, the director forged a path between the realist tendencies of the era’s art-house cinema and the pleasures of popular genre filmmaking.

Girl talk: the director of the ultra-pink blockbuster discusses imbuing inanimate objects with feeling, balancing cynicism and care, and, of course, irrepressible thoughts of death

Dirty work: Alice Rohrwacher’s La chimera unearths the contradictions at the heart of a brittle society where culture is yet another arena in which the wealthy exploit the poor

Flying high: the last few days of Cannes contained many of this year’s high points, including Kelly Reichardt’s Showing Up, Albert Serra’s Pacifiction, and David Cronenberg’s Crimes of the Future

Truth claims: the French-Senegalese filmmaker discusses the real-life roots of her fiction debut and what it means to embody universality in a Black woman

Barry Jenkins, the director of The Underground Railroad, talks about capturing moments of truth, building foundations, and being driven by the desire for justice.

How to save a theater: members of the La Clef Revival collective share key insights from their successful campaign to reopen their beloved Parisian cinema

Join Film Comment Co-Deputy Editors Devika Girish and Clinton Krute as they welcome Elena Rossi-Snook, Collection Manager at the New York Public Library, for a lively screening and conversation event.

To celebrate the 30th anniversary of the film’s landmark release and the premiere of its new restoration, join us for a conversation with director Mira Nair, actress Sarita Choudhury, and cinematog...

With no theater to step into, Devika Girish reflects on the options for connecting with others and with cinema

Becoming a critic in an era of burgeoning possibility and unsettling futures

Out of darkness: the filmmaker discusses her Cannes–winning documentary and its beguiling mix of fiction and nonfiction, art and politics

The film, about a jaded veteran officer and his rookie partner, plays like an amalgam of the tropes of numerous TV and movie police procedurals.

In the drink: Undine reenergizes the recursive motifs of Christian Petzold's oeuvre while also sharpening his longstanding interest in history and capitalism

The legendary Bengali actor worked within and against conventions of melodrama to embody the pain of a woman destroyed by her own selflessness.