Film Comment Magazine
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Founded in 1962, Film Comment magazine features reviews and analysis of mainstream, art-house, and avant-garde filmmaking from around the world.
Film Comment Magazine
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Outside in: author Adam Shatz discusses his new biography of Frantz Fanon along with the cinematic afterlives of the late anticolonial theorist ..read more
Film Comment Magazine
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Smackdown: Doug Liman’s Road House remake and Dev Patel’s the vigilante thriller Monkey Man, two exemplars of the Action Movie, balance style and substance to different effect ..read more
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Dirty work: Alice Rohrwacher’s La chimera unearths the contradictions at the heart of a brittle society where culture is yet another arena in which the wealthy exploit the poor ..read more
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1w ago
Oceanic feeling: the writer discusses her fascinating new book on Chantal Akerman’s Proust adaptation ..read more
Film Comment Magazine
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Wellness check: Nicolas Philibert’s new documentary On the Adamant is the latest in a long line of film portraits of hospitals, including films by Frederick Wiseman, Claire Simon, and others ..read more
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Raindrops keep falling: Charles Burnett’s long unavailable The Annihilation of Fish is an interracial love story that does not make race and age “problems” to be solved, but treats them as mere facts of existence ..read more
Film Comment Magazine
2w ago
Love’s labor’s lost: the French director discusses his latest, a time-hopping thriller about the pursuit of love in a hostile world ..read more
Film Comment Magazine
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Together and apart: the two directors discuss the making of their award-winning documentary, their transition from journalism to cinema, and finding the right balance between images of incontrovertible violence with those of resilience and life ..read more
Film Comment Magazine
3w ago
Look back in anger: the Polish filmmaker is perhaps best known for the proto-psychedelia of 1965’s The Saragossa Manuscript, but much of his formidable filmography consists of realist dramas that explore lost innocence and doomed love ..read more
Film Comment Magazine
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Great expectations: the Romanian filmmaker discusses his madcap latest, an unpredictable, funny, crass, and erudite that speaks to a wide variety of concerns—totalitarianism, neoliberalism, and the corrosive role of media—with extraordinary verve ..read more