Every year, Film at Lincoln Center honors a luminary of the film industry with the Chaplin Award. This year’s honoree is a beloved screen icon: the Dude, the Starman, the legend—Jeff Bridges. In advance of the 49th Chaplin Award Gala, taking place on April 29, Devika sat down with Bridges for a look back at the actor’s long career. Taking inspiration from a ... Show More
Jul 3
Summer New Releases, with Alana Pockros and Adam Nayman
It’s officially summertime, and with the AC blasting in multiplexes around the globe, Film Comment Editors Clinton Krute and Devika Girish invited two fellow respite seekers, critics Alana Pockros and Adam Nayman, to chat about some of the buzziest new releases in circulation. Th ... Show More
1h 13m
Jun 25
GriGris, with Malcolm Harris and Anselm Kizza-Besigye
Earlier this month, Film Comment hosted the author Malcolm Harris for a special event celebrating the launch of his latest book, What’s Left: Three Paths Through the Planetary Crisis—an invigorating analysis of climate change and the collective solutions required to rescue humani ... Show More
40m 33s
Jun 18
Familiar Touch, with Kathleen Chalfant and Molly Haskell
One of our favorite movies of 2025 so far is Sarah Friedland's debut feature Familiar Touch, which opens in theaters in New York on Friday, June 20. The film follows an octogenarian with dementia, played by Kathleen Chalfant, as she settles into her new life in a nursing home. It ... Show More
34m 13s
Sep 2019
#248 - NYFF57 Day 3: Cinematography Now with Rodrigo Prieto, Ashley Connor & Chris Teague
On Day 3 of our New York Film Festival daily podcast, we're exploring the craft of cinematography. In the introduction Eugene Hernandez, FLC Deputy Director and Co-Publisher of Film Comment, is joined by programmer Dan Sullivan to discuss NYFF's Retrospective selections this year ... Show More
1h 26m
Mar 2024
Dunkirk (2017) and Dangerous Minds (1995)
With Christopher Nolan now an Oscar-winner, this particular episode of Film Stories begins by zipping back to 2017, when he had a his first serious drive-by of the Academy Awards. That'd be with Dunkirk, the first time he told a true story on film. It took him a long time to be i ... Show More
56m 19s
Jan 2023
Remembering Novelist Russell Banks
We remember novelist Russell Banks, whose working-class background inspired much of his work. His best known novels were adapted into films, including Affliction, The Sweet Hereafter, and Continental Drift. We'll listen back to portions of our interviews with him. Also, we're rev ... Show More
45m 37s