Film Comment May/June 2020

Special essays on isolation and movies by Nick Pinkerton and Devika Girish, Imogen Sara Smith on Roy Andersson’s existentialist tragicomedy About Endlessness, Aboubakar Sanogo on the revolutionary legacy of Med Hondo, and Ela Bittencourt in conversation with the late Colombian genre-twister Luis Ospina. Plus: Camilo Restrepo on his electric feature debut Los Conductos, Sheila O’Malley on the film writing of the poet H.D., and Christopher Harris on his landmark St. Louis portrait still/here, along with an interview with avant-garde legend Michael Snow, Jia Zhang-ke’s viewing habits, Ari Aster and Alex Ross Perry on their home-viewing favorites, and much more.