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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.
Latest Posts - Film Comment
The Film Comment Podcast: Collective Protagonists. By Film Comment. October 9, 2024. Bread and roses: the two directorial pairs behind Northern Lights (1978) and Union (2024) discuss the practical, formal, and political considerations of making films about people power.
Premortem and Postmortem
1 day ago · This article appeared in the October 18, 2024 edition of The Film Comment Letter, our free weekly newsletter featuring original film criticism and writing. Sign up for the Letter here. The Room Next Door (Pedro Almodóvar, 2024). In the early 1920s, masses of people sought comfort in spiritualism, consulting mediums to communicate with the dearly departed.
Life’s a Beach - filmcomment.com
1 day ago · In settings both grim and glamorous, Baker knows that despair is the bedrock for the false-front distractions of American kitsch. Soon after their return from Vegas, the moment of Ani’s crisis arrives. Having learned of Vanya’s marriage through a tabloid, his parents are desperate to have it annulled. The thug babysitters come knocking at ...
The Film Comment Podcast: The Best Films of 2022
Dec 15, 2022 · The Film Comment Podcast: The Best Films of 2022. Last night, we sat down with a panel of special guests—Alissa Wilkinson (critic, Vox), Bilge Ebiri (critic, Vulture), and Inney Prakash (curator, Maysles Documentary Center and founder, Prismatic Ground film festival)—for a real-time countdown of the results of our year-end critics’ poll.
Podcast Archives - Film Comment
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Reviews Archives - Film Comment
By J. Hoberman. September 3, 2024. Righteous outlaw: The Goldman Case is a brilliant example of a courtroom drama that eschews familiar tropes, placing an individual subject into the context of a larger, historical subject in scrupulously open-ended fashion.
Strange Brews
4 days ago · This article appeared in the October 16, 2024 edition of The Film Comment Letter, our free weekly newsletter featuring original film criticism and writing. Sign up for the Letter here. Who by Fire (Philippe Lesage, 2024). Canadian cinema has been on something of a hot streak this year, with films like Pascal Plante’s Red Rooms, Kazik Radwanski’s Matt and Mara, and Matthew Rankin’s ...