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Film CommentCinemaThe Film Comment Podcast: Liani Greaves and Barry Jenkins on Once Upon a Time in Harlem The producer (and William Greaves’s granddaughter) speaks with the filmmaker about the newly resurrected portrait of the Harlem Renaissance

Film CommentCinemaThe Film Comment Podcast: Fall 2026 New Releases Inney Prakash and Michael Blair join to debate You Can See Everything , Digger , and Your Mother Your Mother Your Mother

Film CommentCinemaThe Film Comment Podcast: NYFF64 Festival Report Critics Bilge Ebiri and Molly Haskell join for a spirited wrap-up of this year’s edition

Film CommentCinemaThe Film Comment Podcast: Sex in the Cinema at NYFF64 Ayanna Dozier and Melissa Anderson join to discuss several films from this year’s lineup that push the boundaries of sensuality and desire on screen

Film CommentCinemaThe Film Comment Podcast: Critics Academy x NYFF Shorts #2 Shorts by Kamal Aljafari, Camilo Restrepo, and Heather Landsman are debated by participants in this year’s Film at Lincoln Center Critics Academy

Film CommentCinemaThe Film Comment Podcast: Critics Academy x NYFF Shorts #1 Participants in this year’s Film at Lincoln Center Critics Academy discuss shorts by Peggy Ahwesh, Adam Piron, and Kevin Jerome Everson

Film CommentCinemaThe Film Comment Podcast: Venice 2026 #6: Long Night Mariona Borrull, Leonardo Goi, Luke Hicks, and Öykü Sofuoğlu discuss NAZA , Company , and more

Film CommentCinemaThe Film Comment Podcast: Venice 2026 #4: Dividing Lines Programmer Eva Sangiorgi and critic Paola Casella discuss Bunker , Musk , The Difficult Bride , and more

Film CommentCinemaThe Film Comment Podcast: Venice 2026 #3: Roll with It Jonathan Romney and Tim Grierson debate festival premieres Oasis: Don’t Look Back in Anger , Woman Unknown , and more

Film CommentCinemaThe Film Comment Podcast: Venice 2026 #2: Print the Legend Bilge Ebiri and Guy Lodge share their reactions to Danny Boyle’s Ink , Lee Chang-dong’s Possible Love , and Robert Greene’s Too Much Sugar

Film CommentCinemaThe Film Comment Podcast: Venice 2026 #1: Twinning Critics Miriam Bale and Öykü Sofuoğlu discuss new films from Werner Herzog, Martin McDonagh, Paul Schrader, and more

Film CommentCinemaThe Film Comment Podcast: Jane Schoenbrun on Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma The filmmaker discusses their dizzyingly meta-textual and deliciously campy new feature

Film CommentCinemaThe Film Comment Podcast: Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey Genevieve Yue and Inney Prakash join to discuss the director’s adaptation of Homer’s epic poem

Film CommentCinemaThe Film Comment Podcast: Subscriber Exclusive: John Early on Maddie’s Secret, Part 2 The actor-director returns to discuss his fantastic first feature, exclusively for Film Comment paid subscribers

Film CommentCinemaThe Film Comment Podcast: Karlovy Vary 2026 #3: Vacation Critics Robert Daniels and Guy Lodge join to discuss a pair of buzzed-about Bulgarian films and other highlights from the festival's last few days

Film CommentCinemaThe Film Comment Podcast: Karlovy Vary 2026 #2: Family Photos Robert Daniels joins to discuss festival highlights Dao , The Hanging of Stuart Cornfeld , 3 Weeks After , and more

Film CommentCinemaThe Film Comment Podcast: John Early on Maddie’s Secret The comedian and actor discusses his directorial debut, a wonderfully original send-up of TV movies, erotic thrillers, and more

Film CommentCinemaCannes 2026 #9: Breaking Borders at Cannes Docs Jason Ryle, Mark Mushiva, and Lisa Smith discuss building cinematic networks that nourish connections across borders

Film CommentCinemaCannes 2026 #8: Bringing It All Back Home Critics Justin Chang, Tim Grierson, and Jessica Kiang close out the festival, discussing The Dreamed Adventure , The Birthday Party , Coward , and more

Film CommentCinemaCannes 2026 #7: Standing Ovations Thomas Flew and Neta Alexander recap late-festival premieres The Black Ball , Minotaur , The Man I Love , and more

Film CommentCinemaCannes 2026 Subscriber Exclusive: Join the Party Dennis Lim, Kong Rithdee, and Antoine Thirion join to unpack this year’s festival

Film CommentCinemaCannes 2026 #6: Happy Hours Isabel Stevens and Neta Alexander share their responses to Pedro Almodóvar’s Bitter Christmas , Cristian Mungiu’s Fjord , and more

Film CommentCinemaCannes 2026 #5: Out-of-Body Experience Jordan Cronk, Adam Piron, and Ruun Nuur dive into mid-festival highlights 9 Temples to Heaven , Paper Tiger , The Unknown , and more

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The hot shoe is where the flash goes, and the microphone, and the monitor, and whatever the next decade bolts on. Every camera has one and nobody photographs it. This magazine is named after it because that is where the whole business meets: the body, the glass, the light, the sound, and the person holding it.

I shot news in Gothenburg for nine years and documentary for hire after that, then stopped taking assignments to write about the tools. Since 2021 I live in Tokyo, ten minutes from the used-camera shops of Shinjuku, which is not an accident: Canon, Nikon, Sony, Fujifilm, Panasonic, Ricoh and Sigma make almost everything worth pointing at a subject, and their own press writes about it first, in Japanese. So this magazine reads it there, and in German, French, Italian and Spanish, and in English from the reviewers who actually put a card in the slot — around eighty sources and thirty channels, counted and plotted so you can see what is moving.

Bodies and lenses, cinema cameras and drones, film and the darkroom, firmware and the software that finishes the picture, the rumours before the launch and the reviews after it, and the photographers and shows the rest of it is for. I test what I write about on a job before a word goes down. I shoot film on Sundays and do not think that makes me interesting.

A story here is a headline, a short excerpt, one picture and the link to whoever reported it. We never reprint the article, and the picture belongs to the photographer or the maker. A story written in Japanese appears in Japanese, as its author set it down; the link goes to the original.

— Mara Lindqvist, Tokyo