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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.
The Top Film Criticism Sites: An Annotated Blog Roll - Film Comment
The Self-Styled Siren Classical Hollywood fetishism has found a most enchanting ambassador. Farran Smith Nehme of The Self-Styled Siren turns the articulation of cliché and convention into a sport—no surprise she’s chosen melodrama as her champion underdog and counts Max Ophüls and Douglas Sirk among her favorite directors.
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Look again: boutique DVD and Blu-ray labels like Fun City Editions, Arbelos Films, and Vinegar Syndrome play a crucial role in sustaining canon-flouting cinema
Deep Focus: Come and See - Film Comment
Feb 28, 2020 · Come and See (Elem Klimov, 1985). The restoration of Come and See (1985), Elem Klimov’s unblinking depiction of Nazi armies wreaking carnage on Soviet Belorussia in 1943, enables us to view this disturbing, mesmerizing epic with fresh eyes as it turns Klimov’s lens into a burning glass. Originally called Kill Hitler, this film ranks with Kon Ichikawa’s Fires on …
Podcast Archives - Film Comment
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Sounds of Freedom
Nov 5, 2024 · This article appeared in the November 1, 2024 edition of The Film Comment Letter, our free weekly newsletter featuring original film criticism and writing. Sign up for the Letter here. Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat (Johan Grimonprez, 2024). To make a movie is to appropriate—either that which is before the camera or something already filmed.
Review: The King's Speech - Film Comment
“In the past, all a king had to do was look good in uniform,” observes King George V (Michael Gambon)—the first British monarch to address his subjects via radio—early on in Tom Hooper’s splendid period drama The King’s Speech.. “Now we must invade people’s homes and ingratiate ourselves,” he continues.
Best Films of 2022 - Film Comment
The title of Charlotte Wells’s film invokes a balm used to soothe skin scorched by an unforgiving sun. Again and again in Aftersun, the characters partake in the restorative rituals of this salve; in recurring close-ups, Calum, a young, separated father, and Sophie, his 11-year-old daughter, rub lotions into each other’s limbs and pale-pink faces as they holiday in a bright, garish resort ...
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Stand by me: Daughters is a heartbreaking, years-in-the-making documentary exploring the complex relationship between incarcerated fathers and their daughters
Trivial Top 20: Longest Movie Titles - Film Comment
Drumroll please: critics Molly Haskell and Michael Koresky join to reveal and discuss the results of our annual year-end critics’ poll