War report: intimate and epic, My Undesirable Friends: Part One follows a small cohort of oppositional journalists in Putin’s Russia during the run-up to the military invasion of Ukraine| Film Comment
Video life: many of the best films at this year’s festival—including Blue Heron, God Will Not Help, and Dry Leaf—explored the imperfect nature of recollection| Film Comment
Tooth and nail: Inney Prakash and Cici Peng join to discuss festival highlights Dracula, Dry Leaf, With Hasan in Gaza, and more| Film Comment
Charged as guilty: Roman Polanski‘s J'accuse, which dramatizes the infamous Dreyfus Affair, premiered to great acclaim in France—but soon led to further allegations of sexual abuse by the director| Film Comment
Water colors: the Argentine filmmaker pens and paints a tribute to Hong Sangsoo’s latest “river film," By the Stream| Film Comment
Now seating: Gina Telaroli, Benjamin Crais, and Michael Blair spotlight unmissable repertory series playing in New York City| Film Comment
Together now: the moving-image artist and scholar discusses her decades-long practice of “memory work”| Film Comment
Seat yourself: three independent cinemas opening in New York City are betting that audiences still prefer collective experiences of art and urban space| Film Comment
Train tracks: the Austrian experimental filmmaker discusses using found footage to interrogate and play with the past| Film Comment
Stop that train: the recursions of a painful past preoccupied many of the best films at this year’s edition of the Czech festival| Film Comment
On fire: at this year’s edition of the festival devoted to rediscoveries and restorations, distinctions between high and low art dissolved into the heat of the air| Film Comment