Film Comment

Take care: as part of the 2023 Berlin Critics’ Week, our panel debates the question of who will care for film culture

Eyes on the prize: director Sam Pollard and scholar Samantha N. Sheppard join to discuss Pollard’s new doc about basketball great Bill Russell

Crystal clear: filmmakers Deborah Stratman, Mary Helena Clark, and Mike Gibisser join to discuss their new films, which premiered in the festival’s New Frontier section

About last night: Dessane Lopez Cassell, Poulomi Das, and Jessica Kiang join to talk about Passages, Shortcomings, Milisuthando, and more

Two of a kind: Miriam Bale and Abby Sun return to talk about Fair Play, All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt, Rye Lane, and more

Dancing in the dark: critics Justin Chang and Jessica Kiang share their thoughts on Eileen, You Hurt My Feelings, Cat Person, and more

Dialed up: Vadim Rizov and Dan Sullivan join to discuss Fremont, Gush, A Common Sequence, and more

Good golly: Miriam Bale and Abby Sun join to discuss Earth Mama, Past Lives, Little Richard: I Am Everything, Going to Mars: The Nikki Giovanni Project, and more

Late night: critics Sam Adams, Kayla Myers, and Alissa Wilkinson join in Park City to discuss Justice, Earth Mama, To Live and Die and Live, the doc shorts program, and more

Stay cool: our Sundance coverage kicks off with Abby Sun and Alissa Wilkinson on opening night films Kim’s Video, The Longest Goodbye, and more

Collective action: filmmakers Sky Hopinka and Adam Piron discuss their work in the COUSIN Collective and a new streaming series at ThousandSuns Cinema

The long hangover: Sam Adams and Nicholas Russell join to discuss Avatar: The Way of Water, Babylon, Glass Onion, and more

Facetime: the star of Jafar Panahi’s latest meta-fictional masterwork discusses how her own experience of exile informed her character

Surgical theater: Alissa Wilkinson, Bilge Ebiri, and Inney Prakash join our panel to countdown (and debate) our top films of the year

Galaxy brains: valiant critics Jessica Kiang and Nathan Lee join to battle over the relative merits and demerits of the much-buzzed-about Cate Blanchett vehicle TÁR

Against interpretation: filmmaker Radu Jude and critic Giovanni Marchini Camia join to discuss the continuing significance of the films and writing of Pier Paolo Pasolini

Police stories: scholar Pooja Rangan and filmmaker Brett Story join to discuss “Watch the Cops: Policing New York in the Movies,” their recent series at the Brooklyn Academy of Music

Boo-ster shots: Kelli Weston and Steven Mears join to discuss a pair of just-out-of-season movies—slasher flick Alice, Sweet Alice and classic ghost story The Innocents

Eyes on the prize: our critics panel digs into the complexities of list-making, and how best-of lists influence the canonization of documentary films

Group chat: Phoebe Chen, Molly Haskell, and Kelli Weston join to discuss highlights and lowlights from the festival that was, including TÁR, Saint Omer, Master Gardener and more