Woman on the Verge
Radu Jude’s *Kontinental ’25* is a modern neorealist drama shot on an iPhone in just ten days, blending raw natural‑light cinematography with constant streams of TV broadcasts, viral videos and comment‑section readings. The story follows Ion, a homeless man in Cluj, whose suicide triggers bailiff Orsolya’s moral crisis amid a city reshaped by aggressive gentrification and foreign capital. Jude’s film mirrors Italian neorealism’s focus on everyday hardship while satirically exposing today’s media‑saturated reality. By centering a conflicted female protagonist, the movie interrogates how digital overload and neoliberal forces shape personal responsibility in Eastern Europe.
Searching for Space
Georgian auteur Alexandre Koberidze’s third feature, Dry Leaf, follows a father’s three‑hour quest across rural Georgia to find his missing daughter. The film begins as a missing‑person mystery but dissolves into patient observations of fields, abandoned villages, and invisible interlocutors. Shot entirely...
The Film Comment Podcast: Oscars 2026 Preview with the Los Angeles Review of Books
Film Comment’s podcast hosts Devika and Clint teamed with Los Angeles Review of Books editors Eric Newman, Annie Berke and Elizabeth Alsop for a special Oscars 2026 preview. The episode dissects the Best Picture slate—including Sinners, The Secret Agent and F1—while flagging emerging trends, surprise contenders and...
Interview: Ross McElwee on Remake
Ross McElwee’s new documentary Remake, released March 6 2026, is a deeply personal film that revisits his son Adrian’s life, addiction, and tragic death while also chronicling McElwee’s own battles with brain cancer, a failed Hollywood remake of Sherman’s March, and his marriage...
The Film Comment Podcast: Akinola Davies Jr. On My Father’s Shadow
Filmmaker Akinola Davies Jr. discusses his debut feature My Father’s Shadow on the Film Comment Podcast. The film, set in Lagos in 1993, follows two boys spending a day with their often‑absent father amid looming political unrest. Davies, who recently...