Film Comment March/April 2020

Kelly Reichardt’s First Cow, Kleber Mendonça Filho and Juliano Dornelles’s radical genre mashup Bacurau, Nick Pinkerton on the maximalism of Hollywood royal King Vidor, an interview with Saturday Fiction director Lou Ye, and J. Hoberman on Thomas Heise’s epic essay film Heimat Is a Space in Time. Plus: Michael Koresky on the enduring promise of cinema, Pietro Marcello on Martin Eden, Garrett Bradley on Time, Isabelle Huppert in Loulou, Spike Lee’s trusted costume designer Ruth E. Carter, Amy Taubin on Sundance, and much more.