Film Comment Magazine
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Arts & culture mag from @filmlinc. Since 1962. Reviews and in-depth analysis of mainstream, art-house & avant-garde film.
The complete results of our Best of 2024 Poll are now online: ✨ Our Top 20 Films of the Year, w/ our contributors’ appreciations ✨ Our Top 10 Undistributed Films of the Year, w/ our contributors’ appreciations ✨ Individual Ballots from 115+ contributors filmcomment.com/best-films-of-…
“I try to make films that could not be made with a computer.” Now online from The Film Comment Letter: Austrian experimental filmmaker Peter Tscherkassky speaks with Justin Remes about using found footage to interrogate and play with the past. filmcomment.com/blog/interview…
Ela Bittencourt (@Ela_Bittencourt) reports from this year’s Karlovy Vary International Film Festival, which featured new films by Maciej Drygas, Paula Ďurinová, Bill Morrison, and more. Now online from The Film Comment Letter: filmcomment.com/blog/karlovy-v…
“the notion that emasculated white men are at the core of all of the world’s problems is a liberal cliché that, here, manifests as Main Character Syndrome by another name.” This is so spot-on, I could cry.
The love that seems to be going around for Eddington doesn’t infuriate me but ahem here’s me wagging my finger otherwise…from my @FilmComment Cannes write up: filmcomment.com/blog/cannes-20…
The love that seems to be going around for Eddington doesn’t infuriate me but ahem here’s me wagging my finger otherwise…from my @FilmComment Cannes write up: filmcomment.com/blog/cannes-20…
For this week’s episode of The Film Comment Podcast, Devika Girish (@devikagirgayi) invites Phoebe Chen (@arsepoetica), Bedatri Datta Choudhury (@Bedatri), and Joseph Hernandez to discuss the cinematic appeal of the humble rice cooker. filmcomment.com/blog/the-film-…
Now online from The Film Comment Letter: Beatrice Loayza (@bealoayza) reports from Bologna, Italy on this year’s edition of Il Cinema Ritrovato, where distinctions between high and low art dissolved into the heat of the air. filmcomment.com/blog/il-cinema…
On this week’s episode of The Film Comment Podcast, critics Adam Nayman (@brofromanother) and Alana Pockros (@APockros) join to discuss MATERIALISTS; SORRY, BABY; F1; and 28 YEARS LATER. filmcomment.com/blog/the-film-…
“To listen, to be able to hear, is very important in filmmaking.” Caroline Monnet interviews 92-year-old filmmaker, visual artist, musician, and activist Alanis Obomsawin, whose work is currently the subject of a major retrospective @MoMAPS1. filmcomment.com/blog/interview…
Listen here! filmcomment.com/blog/the-film-…
Highly recommed the Film Comment podcast on this movie. 2 critics really liked it and 2 critics despised it and all the back and forth made me even more excited to see it.
Reminds me of this very sweet film comment podcast filmcomment.com/blog/the-film-… lightindustry.org/thechildrensci…
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Grigris is really good—a classical drama of daily lives that reveals hidden vectors of power and history: newyorker.com/goings-on-abou…
Grigris is really good—a classical drama of daily lives that reveals hidden vectors of power and history: newyorker.com/goings-on-abou…
Our Film Comment Live event with Malcolm Harris (@BigMeanInternet) is tomorrow night! Come for a screening of Mahamat-Saleh Haroun’s 2013 thriller GRIGRIS; stay for a panel with Harris and Anselm Kizza-Besigye about the cinema of the climate crisis. 🎟️: filmlinc.org/events/film-co…
As part of this year’s Cannes Docs section, filmmakers Eduardo Williams, Brett Story, and Zoya Laktionova joined FC Editor @devikagirgayi to discuss the ethics and practicalities of sound, voice, and audio in documentary film. Listen to the conversation: filmcomment.com/blog/the-film-…
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Join us tonight! Limited tickets remain. 🎟️: filmlinc.org/events/film-co…
Our Film Comment Live event with Malcolm Harris (@BigMeanInternet) is tomorrow night! Come for a screening of Mahamat-Saleh Haroun’s 2013 thriller GRIGRIS; stay for a panel with Harris and Anselm Kizza-Besigye about the cinema of the climate crisis. 🎟️: filmlinc.org/events/film-co…