Film Comment’s festival of movies returned in its 19th edition this month with a selection of titles curated by the magazine’s editors, offering strikingly bold visions, mixing New York premieres of new films and long-unseen older titles that deserve the big-screen treatment.

Featuring four U.S. premieres and two North American premieres, new works from László Nemes, Steven Soderbergh, Beatriz Seigner and Abbas Fahdel, a rare 35mm screening of Honeysuckle Rose with Jerry Schatzberg in person, and more.

On this week’s podcast, Michael Koresky chats with Film Comment’s Editor-in-Chief Nicolas Rapold about this year’s edition of Film Comment Selects, running February 23 – 27.

See in-depth talks including a Q&A following our program of films directed by Paul Newman and the legendary Jean-Pierre Léaud on The Death of Louis XIV.

From annual festivals like New Directors/New Films and Rendez-Vous with French Cinema to tributes to Jean-Pierre Léaud and Andrzej Wajda, there’s a lot on tap here at the Film Society.

Film Comment magazine’s annual festival returns February 17-24 with its customarily unpredictable blend of sublime wonders and hard-hitting visions, including films by Terence Davies, Chantal Akerman, Andrzej Żuławski, Hirokazu Kore-eda, Benoît Jacquot, and more.

Indie filmmaker Ti West discusses The Sacrament, his fascination with the true story it’s based on, and why he thinks of it as a “fake documentary” instead of “found-footage horror.”

The ever-eclectic series features recent work by Hong Sang-soo, Bernardo Bertolucci, Jane Campion, Ti West, and Denis Villeneuve, plus rarely-screened older gems by Christian Petzold, Raúl Ruiz, and much more!

With 22 films ranging from the gory to the delightful, the lo-fi to the pro-life, and from the likes of Marco Bellocchio, Jeff Bridges, Ingmar Bergman, Isabelle Huppert, Takashi Miike, and Michel Gondry, there really is something for everyone in this year’s Film Comment Selects!

In its second week, the ever-eclectic festival delivers screwball comedies (David Wain’s “Wanderlust”), inventive horror (“Silent House” starring Elizabeth Olsen), engrossing documentaries (three by Jean-Pierre Gorin) and other not-to-be-missed gems (“Margaret,” anyone?).

Film Comment Selects serves up a double feature of early-70s French assassin flicks tonight in the Walter Reade: Jacques Deray’s “The Outside Man” at 6:30pm and Fred Zinnemann’s “The Day of the Jackal” at 8:30pm.

“We refuse all borders in the magazine and in the movie theater: That’s why both in our pages and in our programs we celebrate genre fare from kung-fu movies to horror flicks right alongside the work of certified art-house luminaries like Jia Zhangke, Thomas Vinterberg, and not forgetting R.W. Fassbinder.”