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Arts & culture mag from @filmlinc. Since 1962. Reviews and in-depth analysis of mainstream, art-house & avant-garde film.
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The complete results of our Best of 2024 Poll are now online:.✨ Our Top 20 Films of the Year, w/ our contributors’ appreciations.✨ Our Top 10 Undistributed Films of the Year, w/ our contributors’ appreciations.✨ Individual Ballots from 115+ contributors.
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On this week’s episode of The Film Comment Podcast, critics Adam Nayman (@brofromanother) and Alana Pockros (@APockros) join to discuss MATERIALISTS; SORRY, BABY; F1; and 28 YEARS LATER.
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“To listen, to be able to hear, is very important in filmmaking.”. Caroline Monnet interviews 92-year-old filmmaker, visual artist, musician, and activist Alanis Obomsawin, whose work is currently the subject of a major retrospective @MoMAPS1.
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Listen here! .
Highly recommed the Film Comment podcast on this movie. 2 critics really liked it and 2 critics despised it and all the back and forth made me even more excited to see it.
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. freeze the timeless within time, Naruse’s varied and distinctive rhythms, created by the careful counterposing of look with look and movement with movement, highlight the cruel exhilaration of being jostled in the present moment.”.
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“In all its periods, Naruse’s is a strikingly modern cinema. A summary comparison among the three best-known Japanese directors of their generation might go like this: if Mizoguchi’s long-take traveling shots show time in perpetual flow, and if Ozu’s reverse-shot patterns . .
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With a major Mikio Naruse retrospective currently playing @Metrograph after beginning last month @japansociety, read Chris Fujiwara’s deep dive into the Japanese filmmaker’s distinguished body of work, from our September-October 2005 issue.
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See you tonight at 6:30 @FilmLinc!! Limited tickets remain:
Grigris is really good—a classical drama of daily lives that reveals hidden vectors of power and history:.
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RT @tnyfrontrow: Grigris is really good—a classical drama of daily lives that reveals hidden vectors of power and history:..
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As part of this year’s Cannes Docs section, filmmakers Eduardo Williams, Brett Story, and Zoya Laktionova joined FC Editor @devikagirgayi to discuss the ethics and practicalities of sound, voice, and audio in documentary film. Listen to the conversation:
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New Yorkers: CORPORATIONS want you to stay AT HOME and stream Netflix GARBAGE, ALONE instead of coming to see a great film tomorrow night. DON'T LET THEM WIN.
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“This is something I’m interested in: how people try to start to repair things again.”. Christian Petzold speaks with Dennis Lim about his latest, MIRRORS NO. 3.
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Now online from The Film Comment Letter: . Devika Girish (@devikagirgayi) surveys this year’s Cannes from the rearview mirror, focusing on new films by Kelly Reichardt, Kleber Mendonça Filho, Julia Ducournau, and Sergei Loznitsa.
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RT @BigMeanInternet: New Yorkers: CORPORATIONS want you to stay AT HOME and stream Netflix GARBAGE, ALONE instead of coming to see a great….
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Our Film Comment Live event with Malcolm Harris (@BigMeanInternet) is tomorrow night! Come for a screening of Mahamat-Saleh Haroun’s 2013 thriller GRIGRIS; stay for a panel with Harris and Anselm Kizza-Besigye about the cinema of the climate crisis. 🎟️:
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RT @FilmComment: Applications are now open for the 2025 @FilmLinc Critics Academy! . Alongside Film Comment’s Editors, participants attend….
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Join us next Tuesday, June 10 for Film Comment Live: GriGris with Malcolm Harris! We’re presenting a rare US theatrical screening of Mahamat-Saleh Haroun’s 2013 film, plus a conversation with @BigMeanInternet and Anselm Kizza-Besigye. 🎟️:
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