August 1954, Sète (South of France). In the bright summer [...]

What is this site's future, how do we talk about all filmmakers who matter, no matter their industry? Thinking of new ways for Screen Comment to get more reach has meant pushing walls out, rethinking editorial lines. What is Screen Comment today, thirteen years after its creation? The filmed entertainment landscape is constantly moving, tentpole franchises number in the double digits, many of which

French filmmaker and screenwriter Claire Denis will be chair of the Short Film and Cinéfondation jury of the 72nd Festival de Cannes. Denis follows Abderrahmane Sissako, Naomi Kawase, Cristian Mungiu and Bertrand Bonello. On May 23rd, she and her jury will award three prizes on behalf of the Cinéfondation to the seventeen student films that are in the running this year. On May 25th, the festival's closing

Led by Jean Dujardin and Adèle Haenel, "Deerskin" is Quentin Dupieux’s seventh feature. Among the most singular directors in the contemporary film scene, Quentin Dupieux is also a screenwriter, director of photography, film editor and composer of electronic music, known internationally as Mr. Oizo. "Deerskin" marks the return to Cannes of Jean Dujardin in a leading role after he emerged on the world

In 1986 forty-three children were born simultaneously from forty-three different women who weren’t pregnant. Seven of these children were adopted by billionaire Reginald Hargreeves. In order to save the world, Hargreeves founds The Umbrella Academy, a school where young children grow up, develop their power and save people. In Season 1, Klaus, Luther, Allison, Diego, number 5, Vanya

A heavily-redacted biopic about Freddie Mercury that omits a substantial part of the singer's life? Yes, that is possible—in China (among other countries). Morally cleansing the story of “Bohemian Rhapsody” to conceal some uncomfortable (for some) truth is unfortunately part of the orthodoxy in this otherwise grand, wonderful, but sometimes perplexing, country that is China. But this could've happened in Russia, Pakistan or around Mike Pence's dinner table, to be sure. Before its release, the biopic, which is devoted to Queen's vivacious lead singer's life

Agnès Varda, gone? Is this even possible? Wasn’t she the one renewing herself with every decade, with every year, always growing new skin, always morphing into a new language, another mode of expression, breaking barriers, making art forms flow into each other? Wasn’t she the little lady with the funny hair who started out as a photographer, commissioned by no less a luminary than Jean Vilar to document the