On today’s Podcast, Eggers joins Film Comment Editor Devika Girish to discuss why he wanted to make Dracula “scary” again, ...

And if you back off from that stuff, you’re shooting right down into lukewarm junk." “I don’t know if you’re a detective or a ...

Whatever your political affiliation, 2024 was a year full of anxiety, anger, sadness, fear, and strong core beliefs clashing ...

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This article is part of Film Comment’s Best of 2024 coverage. Read all the lists here. At a recent panel at Anthology Film Archives about new scans and restorations of the films of Sergei Parajanov, ...

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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 ...

Resting on a small peninsula in the San Francisco Bay, a castle-like fortress, adorned with battlements atop, separates prisoners from society. The place is San Quentin Rehabilitation Center (formerly ...