The Film Comment Podcast
Episodes
Matt Dillon (The House That Jack Built)
22 Dec 2018
Contributed by Lukas
For the final Film Comment Talk of the year, Matt Dillon came to the Film Society of Lincoln Center to talk about his new film, The House That Jack B...
The Rep Report #3
19 Dec 2018
Contributed by Lukas
The Rep Report continues with another joyous discussion of the latest in repertory and new release. This time we venture into the shadows of the Jacqu...
The Best Movies of 2018
12 Dec 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Every year we send out a poll to our critics and staff and put together a list of the best movies of the year. For 2018, we did something a little dif...
NYFF Live Filmmakers Chat 2018
07 Dec 2018
Contributed by Lukas
At the New York Film Festival, Film Comment presents a series of talks that includes our reliably energizing and insightful conversation with a group ...
The Rep Report #2
30 Nov 2018
Contributed by Lukas
The Rep Report, our new Film Comment podcast series devoted to repertory programs and new releases, continues this week with its latest installment. O...
Families on Film
21 Nov 2018
Contributed by Lukas
In marketing parlance, a “family film” has tended to mean an anodyne product, something that all could enjoy and that couldn't possibly offend any...
Ida Lupino
14 Nov 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Ida Lupino was an original. A Warner Brothers star who went on to become an independent director, writer, and producer, Lupino holds a singular place ...
The Rep Report #1
09 Nov 2018
Contributed by Lukas
There’s an abundance of riches in movie houses across our fair city of New York—and, of course, beyond. We’ve long wanted to feature discussions...
Sandi Tan (Shirkers)
07 Nov 2018
Contributed by Lukas
“With Shirkers, Sandi Tan . . . revisits the long-lost footage from her unfinished narrative feature shot in Tan’s native Singapore in 1992, also ...
Ghosts
31 Oct 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Cinema and ghosts both offer the promise of life after death. On the latest Film Comment Podcast, just in time for Halloween, we talked about the fasc...
Paul Dano and Richard Ford
29 Oct 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Our latest Film Comment Talk brought together Paul Dano, director and co-writer of Wildlife, and Richard Ford, author of the book from which the film ...
Peter Bogdanovich
23 Oct 2018
Contributed by Lukas
As a chronicler of film history, director Peter Bogdanovich has assembled what amounts to an insider’s oral history of classic Hollywood, across boo...
NYFF56 Festival Wrap
17 Oct 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Toward the end of the New York Film Festival, our all-star team of Film Comment contributors came together to talk about the highlights. It was the th...
NYFF56 Projections
11 Oct 2018
Contributed by Lukas
For this week's podcast, we take a close look at Projections, the New York Film Festival’s program of experimental work from around the globe. Film ...
NYFF56 Live: Cinema of Experience
03 Oct 2018
Contributed by Lukas
The 56th New York Film Festival features three special Film Comment Talks, the first of which was our latest “Cinema of Experience” roundtable. On...
Ballad of the Coen Brothers
26 Sep 2018
Contributed by Lukas
“In their films—especially Barton Fink, The Man Who Wasn’t There, No Country for Old Men, A Serious Man, and Inside Llewyn Davis—there’...
Ethan Hawke
21 Sep 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Our latest guest for our Film Comment Talks was Ethan Hawke. His new film Blaze, which he directed, stars in, and co-wrote, was released in August by...
Work / Bujalski
19 Sep 2018
Contributed by Lukas
“Very rare are the movie depictions of restaurant work that evoke the mental and emotional dissonance required to get through an eight-hour shift,”...
Toronto Three
14 Sep 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Our Toronto 2018 podcast series comes to a close as our group gabs about Olivier Assayas's garrulous Non-Fiction, Alex Ross Perry's Her Smell, Ho W...
Toronto Two
12 Sep 2018
Contributed by Lukas
The Toronto hit parade continues with another podcast from the festival formerly known as the Festival of Festivals. I brought together even more hear...
Toronto One
11 Sep 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Drawn like hopeless spaceships into a black hole, Film Comment and friends are currently attending the sprawling Toronto film festival. I brought to...
Venice
05 Sep 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Taking a breath to look back, Film Comment Editor-in-Chief Nicolas Rapold is joined by Jonathan Romney, FC contributing editor, in an undisclosed ...
Great Debuts, Still Masters
30 Aug 2018
Contributed by Lukas
This week on the podcast, the re-release of Terence Davies’s first full-length film, Distant Voices, Still Lives, in a new restoration, has our gu...
The Summer of 2001
22 Aug 2018
Contributed by Lukas
This week on the podcast we head back to the summer of 2001. These days, the feeling of waiting for the other shoe to drop has become a way of life, t...
Locarno 2018
09 Aug 2018
Contributed by Lukas
With a playful 13.5-hour multigenre film-of-films from Mariano Llinas, an ultra-sharp new Hong Sangsoo, and an array of other experiments, the Locarno...
Spike Lee
01 Aug 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Our cover story for the July/August issue is about Spike Lee’s BlacKkKlansman—a story about incredible events in America’s past that feel well-s...
The Russians
26 Jul 2018
Contributed by Lukas
As long as we are being inundated with worrisome news about Russian cyberwarfare and other attacks, the time seems ripe for taking a look at the mothe...
Boots Riley and Questlove
18 Jul 2018
Contributed by Lukas
On July 17, our latest Film Comment Free Talk brought together Boots Riley, director of the mind-altering new film Sorry to Bother You, and special g...
Drone Cinema
11 Jul 2018
Contributed by Lukas
“In just a few years’ time, they’ve become both requisite filmmaking tools and regrettable freighters of cliché. Drone shots are easily recogni...
Sorry to Bother You
04 Jul 2018
Contributed by Lukas
“Audiences will enjoy Sorry to Bother You in one go, but the film invites and can stand up to multiple viewings, in much the same way that comple...
Visconti
28 Jun 2018
Contributed by Lukas
For many New York moviegoers, the past few weeks at the Film Society of Lincoln Center have virtually belonged to Luchino Visconti. The retrospective ...
Paul Schrader
21 Jun 2018
Contributed by Lukas
“Although religious symbols and themes have often found their way into Schrader’s film work, First Reformedmarks the first time he has applied ele...
Ari Aster
14 Jun 2018
Contributed by Lukas
This summer we kicked off our Film Comment Free Talks, a new series of conversations with filmmakers held at the Film Society of Lincoln Center. For t...
Le Cinéma du Glut
07 Jun 2018
Contributed by Lukas
In the May/June issue of Film Comment, Nick Pinkerton wrote: “Like few feature films before it, Spielberg’s [Ready Player One] exemplifies an ae...
Queer Criticism
29 May 2018
Contributed by Lukas
In his essay “Responsibilities of a Gay Film Critic”—first published in the January/February 1978 issue of Film Comment—Robin Wood wrote: “C...
Cannes Day 11
21 May 2018
Contributed by Lukas
In this unbelievable season finale, promises are broken, insults fly, and lives are forever changed…well, not really. New York Times co-chief film...
Cannes Day 10
18 May 2018
Contributed by Lukas
It’s been a full 10 days of Cannes! FC Editor-in-Chief Nicolas Rapold is joined by Eugene Hernandez, Deputy Director of the Film Society of Lincoln...
Cannes Day Nine
17 May 2018
Contributed by Lukas
It’s Cannes, day nine! FC Editor-in-Chief Nicolas Rapold is joined by Justin Chang, film critic for the Los Angeles Times; Mara Gourd-Mercado, gener...
Cannes Day Eight
16 May 2018
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, FC Editor-in-Chief Nicolas Rapold is joined by Amy Taubin, Jonathan Romney, and Eric Hynes to discuss Lars von Trier’s “provocati...
Cannes Day Seven
15 May 2018
Contributed by Lukas
In today’s dispatch, FC Editor-in-Chief Nicolas Rapold is joined by Eric Hynes, curator of film at Museum of Moving Image, and Orwa Nyrabia, artisti...
Cannes Day Six
14 May 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Following the high-profile “82 women” red carpet protest, FC and Artforum contributing editor Amy Taubin joins FC Editor-in-Chief Nicolas Rapold t...
Cannes Day Five
13 May 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Amidst the jubilance of a French wedding, FC Editor-in-Chief Nicolas Rapold is joined by Eric Hynes, curator of film at the Museum of the Moving Image...
Cannes Day Four
12 May 2018
Contributed by Lukas
It’s Cannes day four! FC Editor-in-Chief Nicolas Rapold is joined by Film Society of Lincoln Center Director of Programming Dennis Lim and FC column...
Cannes Day Three
11 May 2018
Contributed by Lukas
FC Editor-in-Chief Nicolas Rapold and Otros Cines critic Manu Yáñez Murillo sit down in the Palais to discuss the day’s films: Jaime Rosales’s ...
Cannes Day Two
10 May 2018
Contributed by Lukas
FC Editor-in-Chief Nicolas Rapold is joined by Eric Hynes, Curator of Film at the Museum of Moving Image and FC Columnist, as they reflect on day two ...
Cannes Day One
09 May 2018
Contributed by Lukas
It’s Cannes, day one! FC Editor-in-Chief Nicolas Rapold is joined by Amy Taubin, FC contributing editor and Cannes veteran, to discuss the films the...
Geraldine Chaplin
08 May 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Acting dynasties—like any kind of dynasty—rarely produce talents as great as Geraldine Chaplin, Charlie’s daughter, who ended up a sui generis f...
Claire Denis and Let the Sunshine In
01 May 2018
Contributed by Lukas
The incomparable French director Claire Denis returns with Let the Sunshine In, a romantic comedy of sorts that stars Juliette Binoche. Denis’s f...
Musical Performers on Film
24 Apr 2018
Contributed by Lukas
While great pipes and a cute face don’t always allow pop stars to instantly become leading men or ladies (witness 2003’s From Justin to Kelly), ma...
True/False 2018
17 Apr 2018
Contributed by Lukas
In the college town of Columbia, Missouri, the True/False Film Fest has grown to become one of the world’s premiere showcases of cutting-edge nonfic...
Lucrecia Martel’s Zama
10 Apr 2018
Contributed by Lukas
In honor of the Film Society of Lincoln Center’s retrospective of Lucrecia Martel’s work and theatrical run of Zama, we re-present this episode an...
New Directors / New Films 2018
03 Apr 2018
Contributed by Lukas
With the ostensible arrival of spring comes the Film Society of Lincoln Center and MoMA’s New Directors/New Films. In this year’s crop the tradit...
Easter Hams
27 Mar 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Just in time for Easter (and a new series celebrating Al Pacino at The Quad), this episode honors an often-misunderstood subcategory of star: hams. Ra...
Satire’s Funny Like That
20 Mar 2018
Contributed by Lukas
In the March/April issue of Film Comment, Lauren Kaminsky wrote about Armando Iannucci’s The Death of Stalin: "a delirious historical mash-up that c...
Tell Me
13 Mar 2018
Contributed by Lukas
All too often, women’s opinions are considered valuable only in certain situations: when there’s a problem affecting women, when there’s an oppo...
Personal Problems (The Movie)
06 Mar 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Featuring the talents of Bill Gunn (Ganja & Hess), Vertamae Grosvenor (Daughters of the Dust), Ishmael Reed, and many others, Personal Problems was ...
The Cinema of Experience II
27 Feb 2018
Contributed by Lukas
From the way in which the experiences of African Americans are portrayed on screen, to the way skin color is captured on film, the history of movies a...
The Rise of Valeska Grisebach
20 Feb 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Valeska Grisebach’s extremely precise yet highly naturalistic films take years to make: so far, we have been graced with only three features. In the...
China Goes To The Movies
13 Feb 2018
Contributed by Lukas
After being notorious as a “hotbed” of piracy for many years, the Chinese market is now more rightly regarded as the second-largest in the world. ...
I Loved It When I Was a Kid
06 Feb 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Recent episodes of The Film Comment Podcast have contemplated formative filmmaker obsessions, but what about the movies that struck us much earlier ...
Apichatpong Weerasethakul on SLEEPCINEMAHOTEL
01 Feb 2018
Contributed by Lukas
One of the most curious entries at this year’s International Film Festival Rotterdam (which runs January 24 to February 4) isn’t a film at all, bu...
Let’s Eat
30 Jan 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Food is versatile on film. Consider the ways it’s used in Tampopo, Daisies, Babette’s Feast, and The Cook, The Thief, His Wife, and Her Lover. Thi...
Sundance 2018: Day Seven
24 Jan 2018
Contributed by Lukas
It’s Sundance, day seven! FC Editor-in-Chief Nicolas Rapold is joined by Amy Taubin, FC contributing editor and Sundance veteran, to discuss the evo...
Steve James
23 Jan 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Steve James returns to Sundance this week to present the first half of his ten-part miniseries America to Me, set to premiere in full this fall. Jame...
Sundance 2018: Day Six
23 Jan 2018
Contributed by Lukas
We’re still going strong as we continue into our second week! FC Editor-in-Chief Nicolas Rapold and Eric Hynes, FC contributor and Curator of Film...
Sebastián Silva
22 Jan 2018
Contributed by Lukas
In this Film Comment Podcast transmission from Park City, Sundance regular Sebastián Silva discusses his latest film, Tyrel, which had its world ...
Sundance 2018: Day Five
22 Jan 2018
Contributed by Lukas
As the first weekend of Sundance comes to an end, FC Editor-in-Chief Nicolas Rapold and Eric Hynes, FC contributor and Curator of Film at Museum of th...
Sundance 2018: Day Four
21 Jan 2018
Contributed by Lukas
It’s day four and we’re still going strong! In this episode, Nicolas Rapold, FC Editor-in-Chief and Eric Hynes, FC contributor and Curator of Film...
Sundance 2018: Day Three
20 Jan 2018
Contributed by Lukas
It’s Sundance, day three! On this (snowier) edition of our daily Sundance 2017 podcast, FC Editor-in-Chief Nicolas Rapold and Eric Hynes, FC contr...
Sundance 2018: Day Two
19 Jan 2018
Contributed by Lukas
It’s Sundance, day two! On this edition of our daily Sundance 2017 podcast, FC Editor-in-Chief Nicolas Rapold and Eric Hynes, FC contributor and Cur...
Sundance 2018: Day One
18 Jan 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Before the madness begins, Film Comment kicks things off with a glimpse of what to expect from the hectic experience that is the Sundance Film Festiva...
Good Soundtrack, Bad Movie
16 Jan 2018
Contributed by Lukas
“Can a meretricious, inane movie with nothing else to recommend it produce a radiant, rousing film score?” asks Gary Giddins in “Rolling Thunder...
Phantom Thread
09 Jan 2018
Contributed by Lukas
“In Paul Thomas Anderson’s work, love can be—quite literally—a miracle,” writes Sheila O’Malley in her January/February 2018 Film Comment ...
Reckoning With Misogyny
02 Jan 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Stories about Harvey Weinstein’s misconduct and cover-ups have opened the floodgates of revelations about other figures in the entertainment industr...
Steve Bannon (Most Popular of 2017)
26 Dec 2017
Contributed by Lukas
As filmmaker and critic Jeff Reichert put it in his January/February 2017 Film Comment feature on Steve Bannon’s documentary work, “We could dismi...
Sleepover, or, The Comfort of Movies
20 Dec 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Sleepovers offer kids a special opportunity to hang out with their friends largely unsupervised, free to chat and dream way after bedtime. The types o...
Best Films of 2017
12 Dec 2017
Contributed by Lukas
As another year of moviegoing comes to a close, relax by your fire or space heater with the results of the annual Film Comment critics’ poll! The to...
Formative Filmmakers (Part Two)
05 Dec 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Picking up where we left off last week, this week’s episode travels further down cinephilic memory lane…or should we say, further forward. We chec...
Formative Directors (Part One)
28 Nov 2017
Contributed by Lukas
There’s nothing like first love, especially when it’s projected on the silver screen. This week’s episode of the podcast revisits formative cine...
Film Comment Podcast Tales From The Campus Film Society
21 Nov 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Nick Pinkerton’s feature in the new issue, “The Golden Age of Campus Film Societies,” serves as a point of departure for a discussion on the rol...
David Bordwell’s Reinventing Hollywood
14 Nov 2017
Contributed by Lukas
This week, The Film Comment Podcast welcomes back seminal critic David Bordwell to discuss his new book Reinventing Hollywood: How 1940s Filmmakers Ch...
101 Episodes + Ruben Östlund
07 Nov 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Have we passed 100 episodes already? Apparently so! This week, we invite listeners to look back at some of the most memorable moments of The Film Comm...
Tobe Hooper
31 Oct 2017
Contributed by Lukas
This Halloween, The Film Comment Podcast salutes a filmmaker whose work, according to the British Board of Film Classification, exemplified the “por...
Lucrecia Martel’s Zama
24 Oct 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Premiered in Venice and recently screened in the New York Film Festival, Zama marks not only the long-awaited return of Lucrecia Martel, but also her ...
Armando Iannucci
20 Oct 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Armando Iannucci has long had a genius for the absurdity of global politics, from his work on the satirical news program On the Hour in the 1990s, to ...
NYFF 2017 Live Roundtable
17 Oct 2017
Contributed by Lukas
At the conclusion of the 55th New York Film Festival, Film Comment gathered together a panel of contributors and critics for one final live roundtable...
The Cinema of Experience
10 Oct 2017
Contributed by Lukas
In this special live episode of the podcast, moderated by Film Comment Editor-in-Chief Nicolas Rapold, panelists Teo Bugbee (The New York Times contri...
Steven Spielberg
03 Oct 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Looking ahead to the New York Film Festival premiere of Susan Lacy’s documentary Spielberg, this week’s Film Comment podcast considers the househo...
Bonus: Darren Aronofsky
02 Oct 2017
Contributed by Lukas
This week, The Film Comment Podcast hosts a very special guest, himself a choreographer of uninvited guests on their worst behavior. A longtime practi...
Robert Mitchum
26 Sep 2017
Contributed by Lukas
The centerpiece retrospective of this year’s New York Film Festival celebrates the centenary of Robert Mitchum, paragon of fatalist cool. In her Sep...
Twin Peaks: The Return
20 Sep 2017
Contributed by Lukas
This week’s Film Comment podcast requires very little introduction beyond the topic—Twin Peaks: The Return, a work that is both a heartfelt refrac...
Live From TIFF ’17
13 Sep 2017
Contributed by Lukas
With every festival comes a new round of roundtables, so if you couldn’t make it to this year’s Toronto International Film Festival, you can still...
Mudbound
05 Sep 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Screening in the New York Film Festival a little over a month after the white supremacist horror in Charlottesville, Dee Rees’s Mudbound has a shock...
Revenge Of Movie Gifts
29 Aug 2017
Contributed by Lukas
In May, we premiered our very first gift-giving episode. In it, each critic chose two films for another participant to experience for the first time. ...
Nocturama + Terrorism
22 Aug 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Reducing Bertrand Bonello’s Nocturama to a straightforward psychological reading barely scratches the surface—which is exactly what makes the film...
Jeanne Moreau
15 Aug 2017
Contributed by Lukas
In memory of Jeanne Moreau (1928-2017), this week’s podcast offers up a selection of previously unreleased interviews with the legendary actress and...
Summer of ’77
08 Aug 2017
Contributed by Lukas
“What holds the movies of 1977 together beyond a coincidence of the calendar?” asks J.D. Connor, writing on the Film Society of Lincoln Center’s...
Yvonne Rainer
01 Aug 2017
Contributed by Lukas
“Championed by Annette Michelson, B. Ruby Rich, and many others, [Yvonne] Rainer’s films are densely verbose, elusive, dryly comic, furious, fract...
Good Time
27 Jul 2017
Contributed by Lukas
As Eric Hynes wrote in the cover story of our July/August issue, “At their best, the Safdies’ films don’t just mooch off the city’s story surp...
Location, Location, Location
18 Jul 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Plenty of films open with an establishing shot of a city's iconic skyline, or of a few iconic barns, only to go on and use the location as an anonymou...