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Now that PAPER TIGER is coming out, a reminder that I spoke with James Gray out of Locarno. For @FilmComment we talked about the film, its use of sound and his love of art. filmcomment.com/article/inte…
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"All these reverberations set up a game of narrative ping-pong. As spectators, we’re punished for “believing” in characters as people when they’re only figures on a storyboard." Molly Haskell (@haskmoll) on Pedro Almodóvar’s "Bitter Christmas" Read: filmcomment.com/article/smal…
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yakında woolrich çevirim çıkıyor, ben çıtlatmış olayım, siz de inşallah gerilime doyun.
"The best of the Woolrich adaptations. . .express something virtually alien to noir mood and noir ethos: a lingering, faintly nostalgic sensitivity, a persistent albeit wistful humanism." Cinema Gris: Woolrich/Neill's "Black Angel" by Donald Phelps, Jan-Feb 2000
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🚨 Join us for a special edition of @FilmComment Live on Tuesday, December 8 as we host writer and FC Contributing Editor J. Hoberman and celebrate the publication of his latest book, Across the Movi-verse: Writing on Film, 2011-2021. 🎟️: filmlinc.org/hoberman The evening will include a special screening of Gregory La Cava’s GABRIEL OVER THE WHITE HOUSE (1933) on 35mm 🎞️ and Dave Fleischer’s short film BETTY BOOP FOR PRESIDENT (1932) and will be followed by a discussion with Hoberman and subsequent book signing (copies will be available to purchase on site).
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“Suffice it to say that Yamazaki’s boldest and most outlandish move is to suggest that, for better or worse, there’s a little Godzilla in all of us.” Adam Nayman (@brofromanother) reviews Takashi Yamazaki’s "Godzilla Minus Zero" filmcomment.com/article/mons…
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Proud of my cameo in this review xitter.twitterapi.xyz/FilmComment/status/211…
“Every step of the way, "I Play Rocky" depicts the making of "Rocky" by mirroring the film itself." @MarkAschParody reviews Peter Farrelly’s pandering, frictionless portrait of a young Sylvester Stallone. filmcomment.com/article/rope…
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Damn it's nuts that there could be this much good stuff in a magazine xitter.twitterapi.xyz/FilmComment/status/211…
Alex Cox's "Sid and Nancy" is 40 and we're looking back at the Oct 1986 issue, which featured an interview with Cox, + David Lynch, Spike Lee, David Byrne, Doris Dorrie, and an obit for Vincent Minnelli: filmcomment.com/issues/septe… Subscribe for full access to the archives.
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Out of Sundance, @812filmreviews, @wtavlin, and @nataliawinke joined Editor Devika Girish on the Film Comment Podcast to discuss William Greaves and David Greaves’s "Once Upon a Time in Harlem," and other highlights of the festival. filmcomment.com/the-film-com…
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"The overwhelming effect of watching "Once Upon a Time in Harlem" is that of receiving a gift—a rare, doubly retrospective look back at the zeitgeist of the 1920s through that of the 1970s," wrote Devika Girish out of its Sundance premiere. filmcomment.com/sundance-202…
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“Every step of the way, "I Play Rocky" depicts the making of "Rocky" by mirroring the film itself." @MarkAschParody reviews Peter Farrelly’s pandering, frictionless portrait of a young Sylvester Stallone. filmcomment.com/article/rope…
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This week on the Film Comment Podcast, "Once Upon a Time in Harlem" producer (and William Greaves’s granddaughter) Liani Greaves and filmmaker @BarryJenkins join Editor Devika Girish to talk about the newly resurrected portrait of the Harlem Renaissance. filmcomment.com/the-film-com…
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“As in all of Lee’s films, there is no cathartic restitution of hope or certainty.” Phoebe Chen explores how in “Possible Love,” Lee Chang-dong deepens his inquiry into how the forces of habit, desire, and precarity shift our perception of reality. filmcomment.com/article/pict…
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At Cannes, critic Robert Daniels (@812filmreviews) & FC Contributing Editor/Asia Society programmer Inney Prakash joined the Film Comment Podcast to discuss Marie Kreutzer’s "Gentle Monster," which hits theaters this week. Listen: filmcomment.com/cannes-2026-…
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Remembering Peter Watkins (1935-2025) today on his birthday. Revisit a @FilmComment podcast episode from last year (featuring J. Hoberman) that celebrated the great English filmmaker: filmcomment.com/the-film-com…
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Our Fall 2026 issue is now live, with a cover story by Melissa Anderson (@MelissEAnderson) on Ryûsuke Hamaguchi’s “All of a Sudden”! filmcomment.com/article/a-wa…
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“The crisis that is our shared future puts unique demands on the coming-of-age film, a framework already saddled with the loss of innocence and the aching awareness of crossing an irreversible threshold.” Read @bealoayza on “La Gradiva” & “Everytime” filmcomment.com/article/on-t…
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"No matter the part, though, all of her performances are distinguished by her extraordinary talent for nonverbal expression." For her column Seeing Stars, @MelissEAnderson salutes Barbara O. Jones, one of the finest performers of the L.A. Rebellion. filmcomment.com/article/seei…
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From "Resident Evil" and "Digger" to "You Can See Everything" and "Once Upon a Time in Harlem," our favorite critics rate the latest new releases. Check out the updated Critics' Grid: filmcomment.com/article/crit…
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On this week’s episode of the Film Comment Podcast, Contributing Editor Inney Prakash and Assistant Editor Michael Blair join Editors @devikagirgayi and Clinton Krute to talk YOUR MOTHER YOUR MOTHER YOUR MOTHER, DIGGER, and YOU CAN SEE EVERYTHING filmcomment.com/the-film-com…
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