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Interview: Jia Zhangke on Caught by the Tides
Oct 7, 2024 · This article appeared in the October 4, 2024 edition of The Film Comment Letter, our free weekly newsletter featuring original film criticism and writing. Sign up for the Letter here. Caught by the Tides (Jia Zhangke, 2024). Caught by the Tides, Jia Zhangke’s first fiction feature in six years, is among the 54-year-old Chinese director’s most radical and comprehensively conceived works to ...
The Best Shorts of 2024 - filmcomment.com
Dec 20, 2024 · Speaking in Tongues: Take One (Christopher Harris, U.S.). Ishmael Reed’s novel Mumbo Jumbo serves as the jumping-off point for a rhythmic collision of dance, riot, and 20th-century American cultural detritus, marking the first iteration of an evolving project from one of the most vital voices in contemporary film. (Listen to a Film Comment Podcast conversation with Christopher Harris here.)
The Film Comment Podcast: Mike Leigh on Hard Truths
4 days ago · A new film from Mike Leigh is always a cause for celebration. Starting with his first feature Bleak Moments in 1971, Leigh has carved out a singular place in British and global cinema for his beautifully sensitive and detailed portraits of the lives of his largely working-class characters. His latest, Hard Truths, arrives six years after his previous release, the 2018 historical drama Peterloo.
The Best Restorations of 2024 - filmcomment.com
Dec 20, 2024 · This article is part of Film Comment’s Best of 2024 coverage. Read all the lists here.. At a recent panel at Anthology Film Archives about new scans and restorations of the films of Sergei Parajanov, preservationist Daniel Bird spoke insightfully about how film restoration is always a work in progress—how there is no definitive version of a film as long as materials continue to be found ...
Interview: Céline Sciamma - Film Comment
Why do you use Vivaldi’s “The Four Seasons” in the film? And what is the relationship between the discovery of a piece of music and the discovery of being in love?. I wanted the film not to have a score, which was kind of scary because making a …
Best Films of 2023 - Film Comment
In the hands of a different director, Showing Up might have played like yet another Sundance-style indie: a film packed with quirky characters (including an injured pigeon) and snappy, self-lacerating one-liners about the bougie artists of Portland, Oregon. But, as expected, Kelly Reichardt finds a way to complicate and enrich this premise, crafting …
Dream Baby Dream - filmcomment.com
4 days ago · This article appeared in the January 10, 2025 edition of The Film Comment Letter, our free weekly newsletter featuring original film criticism and writing. Sign up for the Letter here. Nosferatu (Robert Eggers, 2024) “Come to me.” So begins Nosferatu, Robert Eggers’s new film and the latest cinematic retelling of Bram Stoker’s iconic 1897 novel Dracula.
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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.