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WEBFounded in 1962, Film Comment magazine features reviews and analysis of mainstream, art-house, and avant-garde filmmaking from around the world.
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WEBThe Film Comment Podcast: Toronto 2024 #1. By Film Comment. September 9, 2024. Dig in: critics Mark Asch and David Schwartz join to kick of our TIFF 2024 coverage, discussing Brady Corbet's The Brutalist, Gia Coppola's The Last Showgirl, Raoul Peck's Ernest Cole: Lost and Found, and more.
Review: A Burning Hot Summer - Film Comment
WEBWith A Burning Hot Summer (a ramped-up translation of Un été brûlant), Garrel delves back into terrain he last explored in the underrated Phantom Heart (96), but from a fresh perspective. For the first time, his surrogate, Paul (Jérome Robart), is an observer rather than a protagonist, Nick Carraway to Louis Garrel’s Gatsby-ish sybarite ...
Queer & Now & Then: 1960 - Film Comment
WEBSep 12, 2018 · Queer & Now & Then: 1960. Flaunting a beauty so cruel it became the stuff of myth, Alain Delon first terrified viewers with his perfection in 1960’s Purple Noon (Plein soleil). He had appeared in smaller roles for a few years before that, such as Pierre Gaspard-Huit’s satisfactory piece of period eye candy, Christine (1958), hovering around ...
By Any Means Necessary: Med Hondo - filmcomment.com
WEBHondo was born in Ain Beni Mathar in Morocco on May 4, 1935. He came from very humble beginnings within the Mauritanian social structure, as a descendant of low-caste freed slaves (haratin).His father’s meager means as a cook for colonial officials made it impossible for him to pay for Hondo’s studies beyond middle school in spite of his precocious brilliance, which was noticed by the ...
Review: Blue Is the Warmest Color - Film Comment
WEBThere is a vivid party scene at the middle of Abdellatif Kechiche’s sprawling Palme d’Or winner Blue Is the Warmest Color (aka, in France, La Vie d’Adèle: Chapitres 1 et 2) that encapsulates some of the film’s strengths and weaknesses.Adèle (Adèle Exarchopoulos), a young schoolteacher who is feeling her way through early adulthood and her first serious love affair, has earnestly ...
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 ...
Art of the Real: Hybrid Cinema Timeline - Film Comment
WEBApr 27, 2014 · 1953-1959. On the Bowery. Morris Engel’s The Little Fugitive, John Cassavetes’s Shadows, Lionel Rogosin’s On the Bowery. Presaging the methods of what gets filed in the “indie film” drawer, Engel and Cassavetes, like their Italian predecessors, turned the streets of New York into a stage for their dramas.
The Best Short Films of 2022 - Film Comment
WEBDec 15, 2022 · A mysterious stranger stirs a teenage boy’s self-conscious sexual awakening in this tense and subtle short from Mongolia, winner of the Best Short Film Award at the 2022 Venice Film Festival. F1ghting Looks Different 2 Me Now Fox Maxy, U.S. Maxy’s characteristically kinetic rush of image and sound coalesces into a …
Present Tense: Almost Like Falling in Love - Film Comment
WEBMay 16, 2019 · Present Tense: Almost Like Falling in Love. By Sheila O'Malley on May 16, 2019. All images from Aliens (1986, James Cameron) In the director’s cut of Aliens (1986), James Cameron’s sequel to Ridley Scott’s nihilistic, gloomy Alien (1979), there’s a moment when Ripley (Sigourney Weaver) watches a rescue plane crash, dashing any hope of ...