Show Notes
Last week, Devika returned from the Tokyo International Film Festival, which ran from October 27 to November 5 in the Japanese capital. As one of the major festivals in Asia, the event is a great showcase for new and restored films from the region, as well as Japanese specialities like animation. While there, Devika recorded three Podcasts exploring the lineup with a stellar rotation of guests.
On our third and final Podcast from the festival, programmer, translator, and producer Aiko Masubuchi shares her thoughts on three Japanese titles. The first, Yama: Attack to Attack, a documentary from 1985, was screened outside of the festival; the latter two, Lost Land and In Their Traces, were highlights of its Nippon Cinema Now section.
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On this week's episode, Film Comment Editors Devika Girish and Clinton Krute invited FC Contributing Editor Inney Prakash and Assistant Editor Michael Blair to debate three new films that are currently gracing the marquees of multiplexes and stirring up discourse: Bassam Tariq's Your Mother Your Mother Your Mother (2:30); Alejandro González Iñárritu's Digger (16:35); and Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim's You Can See Everything (27:12). Subscribe to Film Comment today to explore our Fall 2026 digital issue, the entirety of our archive dating back to 1962, and much more.
As the 64th New York Film Festival drew to a close last week, it was once again time for Film Comment’s Festival Report, our annual live overview of the NYFF that was. Critics Bilge Ebiri and Molly Haskell joined Film Comment Editors Clinton Krute and Devika Girish for a spirited wrap-up analysis of the highlights and lowlights from this year's lineup. The panel discussed and debated Lee Chang-dong’s Possible Love, Chris Rock's Misty Green, Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim's You Can See Everything, Valeska Grisebach's The Dreamed Adventure, Luca Guadagnino's Artificial, Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor's NAZA, Sompot Chidgasornpongse’s 9 Temples to Heaven, and many more selections. The Questions: Favorite performance? (2:35) Favorite moment? (18:36) A movie that you can’t shake, for good or bad? (29:30) A hidden or underrated gem (47:03)
Several films—both old and new—across this year’s NYFF lineup push the boundaries of depictions of sensuality and desire on screen, posing provocative questions for the current cinema landscape, where sex has become a divisive subject. Last Tuesday at the festival, filmmaker and scholar Ayanna Dozier and Film Comment Contributing Editor Melissa Anderson joined Film Comment Editors Devika Girish and Clinton Krute to explore films like Nitrate Kisses, The Devils, The Drift, The Unknown, and others to discuss what thrills and terrifies us about sexuality on screen. Subscribe to Film Comment to explore our brand-new Fall 2026 digital issue, the entirety of our archive dating back to 1962, and much more.
For the last two weeks, we've handed over The Film Comment Podcast to the participants of the 2026 Film at Lincoln Center Critics Academy—an annual program for up-and-coming critics held during the New York Film Festival, led by Film Comment editors.
This week and next, we're handing over The Film Comment Podcast to the participants of the 2026 Film at Lincoln Center Critics Academy—an annual program for up-and-coming critics held during the New York Film Festival, led by Film Comment editors.