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By Cici Peng. Calling up the past: Madeleine Hunt-Ehrlich's The Ballad of Suzanne Césaire and Mati Diop's Dahomey both probe the tensions of transmitting memory. Founded 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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Premortem and Postmortem. By Molly Haskell. October 21, 2024. Body doubles: David Cronenberg's The Shrouds and Pedro Almodóvar's The Room Next Door find both auteurs still playing around the permutations of the flesh, but in a decidedly retrospective mood.
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 ...
Best Films of 2021 - Film Comment
Though Leos Carax’s gesamtkunstwerk teeters and sways under the weight of its many contrivances, it somehow, against all odds, manages to take flight.Annette is a singular work: part rock-opera, part celebrity satire, part pop-art mindfuck, part dissection of the ties that bind. Roping together all these disparate elements—from Adam Driver’s brooding performance as a sociopathic stand-up ...
Best Films of the Decade - Film Comment
Jan 7, 2020 · The Assassin. Hou Hsiao-hsien, Taiwan/China/Hong Kong, 2015. Scenes of breathtaking, expansive, and meditative stillness alternate with swift, cutting sword-fighting action. With his uncanny visual and aural ability to draw the past into the present, Hou instills scenes set in the 9th-century with a haunted realism.
Ongoing Revolutionary Process
1 day ago · Programmed by Francisco Valente, MoMA’s series derives its title from the “Ongoing Revolutionary Process,” a period of heightened revolutionary instability defined by accelerating factory seizures, housing occupations, and land expropriations. Spanning 58 years of filmmaking, the series asks its viewers to connect Portugal’s political ...
Best Films of 2021: Individual Ballots - Film Comment
The results are in for our 2021 poll of Film Comment's contributors and colleagues!On this page, you'll find a selection of the individual ballots submitted by our voters for the "Best Released Films of 2021" category, covering features that were released either theatrically or virtually in 2021 in the United States.
The Film Comment Podcast: Payal Kapadia and Miguel Gomes
1 day ago · By Film Comment on November 12, 2024. When Payal Kapadia won a historic Grand Prix at this year’s Cannes Film Festival for her second feature, All We Imagine as Light (the first Indian film to play in competition at Cannes in 30 years), she paid homage to another Cannes prizewinner whose work has deeply influenced her: Miguel Gomes, whose ...
Interview: Bernard Eisenschitz on Robert Kramer
1 day ago · This article appeared in the November 8, 2024 edition of The Film Comment Letter, our free weekly newsletter featuring original film criticism and writing. Sign up for the Letter here. Guns (Robert Kramer, 1980).Courtesy of Re:Voir. One of the oldest and best-known festivals in the German-speaking world, the Viennale is as renowned for its …
The Meg - filmcomment.com
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. Megalopolis (Francis Ford Coppola, 2024). Months after the premiere of Megalopolis at the Cannes Film Festival, and several weeks into its dwindling theatrical release, we seem no closer to resolving the many ...