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WEBAged to Perfection: Locarno 2024. By Inney Prakash. Founded in 1962, Film Comment magazine features reviews and analysis of mainstream, art-house, and avant-garde filmmaking from around the world.
Film of the Week: Le Week-End - Film Comment
WEBOct 30, 2013 · Duncan looks uncannily like Julie Delpy 20 years on, and the echoes of the French actress's scathing Céline in Linklater's film bring a fortuitous bonus dimension to Le Week-End. Things come to a head at a dinner party held by Nick's old Cambridge friend Morgan (Jeff Goldblum), an American academic who's living the Parisian dream.
Deep Focus: Hunt for the Wilderpeople - Film Comment
WEBJun 23, 2016 · Familiarity breeds affection between an out-of-control 13-year-old Maori boy and a crusty old white bush hand—and between the movie and the audience—in Taika Waititi’s Hunt for the Wilderpeople, a rambunctious, beguiling comedy adventure about fugitives on the run in the New Zealand wilderness.Julian Dennison as Ricky Baker, the roly-poly problem child from foster care, and Sam Neill as ...
Film of the Week: Out 1 - Film Comment
WEBNov 12, 2015 · Jacques Rivette’s Out 1 is one of the legendary “impossible objects” of modern cinema, and for a long time was one of the great (almost) unseen films. The result of six weeks’ shooting and six months’ editing, it was originally shown only once, in a work print, in Le Havre in September 1971 (reputedly, the projector broke down).
Sudden Fear (1952) - Film Comment
WEBAug 11, 2016 · Based on a novel by Edna Sherry, directed by David Miller, and with a screenplay by Robert Smith and Lenore Coffee (the woman who wrote the 1931 Possessed, one of Crawford’s early triumphs), Sudden Fear is a corker, a noir thriller about a woman deceived. (New York audiences can see a …
Interview: Spike Lee - Film Comment
WEBLee’s film comes at a time when New York City is a racial tinderbox. The alleged black gang rape of a white Wall Street woman this April in Central Park angers whites, smears blacks, and triggers Donald Trump to take out a full-page ad in The New York Times calling for reinstatement of the death penalty (yet there was no such out cry when Michael Stewart and Eleanor Bumpurs—blacks to whom ...
Review: You Were Never Really Here | Lynne Ramsay - Film …
WEBBy Gina Telaroli in the March-April 2018 Issue. There’s something distinctly off-putting about Lynne Ramsay’s two American films, 2011’s We Need to Talk About Kevin and her most recent effort, You Were Never Really Here.Both hold the audience at a remove: the former through its non-chronological approach and sense of unavoidable dread, and the latter with its extremely compact and ...
Film of the Week: On the Silver Globe - Film Comment
WEBJul 19, 2016 · Jean-Luc Godard subtitled his 1967 feature Weekend “a film lost in the cosmos.”But if there’s any film that truly deserves that title, it’s On the Silver Globe, a philosophical epic of science fiction cinema by Polish director Andrzej Zuławski, who died in February this year.On the Silver Globe is the prime film maudit in the oeuvre of a director who pretty much specialized in films ...
Best Movies of 2004 | Film Comment's 2004 Critics' Poll
WEB20 BEST FILMS OF 2004 (Released theatrically in the U.S.)1. Sideways Alexander Payne, U.S.. 2. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind Michel Gondry, U.S.. 3. Before Sunset Richard Linklater, U.S.. 4. Million Dollar Baby Clint Eastwood, U.S.. 5. Goodbye Dragon Inn Tsai Ming-liang, Taiwan. 6. Notre musique Jean-Luc Godard, France. 7.
Review: Fire at Sea Fuocoammare | Gianfranco Rosi - Film Comment
WEBConstructed as much as reported, Fire at Sea is a beautiful artifact presented for your contemplation. It is also an act of conscience. And it is harrowing. Stuart Klawans is the film critic for The Nation. On a map, the island of Lampedusa looks like a flat pebble that Sicily has kicked toward Tunisia. Up close, it’s a hilly, semi-arid ...