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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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For our second Podcast from #Locarno2025, critics Inney Prakash and Cici Peng join FC editor @devikagirgayi to discuss Radu Jude’s DRACULA, Alexandre Koberidze’s DRY LEAF, Kamal Aljafari’s WITH HASAN IN GAZA, Sophy Romvari’s BLUE HERON, and more.
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Tooth and nail: Inney Prakash and Cici Peng join to discuss festival highlights Dracula, Dry Leaf, With Hasan in Gaza, and more
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For our first Podcast from #Locarno2025, directors Alexandre Koberidze and Miguel Gomes discuss “the reality of the film set,” as well as Koberidze’s DRY LEAF, one of the highlights of this year’s festival. Listen here:
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With HIGHEST 2 LOWEST now in theaters, revisit @bealoayza’s interview with Spike Lee, conducted at this year’s Cannes.
“The film is supposed to smell like New York. And it’s not perfume.”. Beatrice Loayza (@bealoayza) interviews Spike Lee about his latest HIGHEST 2 LOWEST, which just premiered at this year’s Cannes Film Festival.
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RT @CinemaGuild: Some essential Luc Moullet-related reading courtesy of the @FilmComment archives:. - Moullet’s tribute to his New Wave com….
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Now seating: Gina Telaroli, Benjamin Crais, and Michael Blair spotlight unmissable repertory series playing in New York City
@PadmaLakshmi @taste_cooking @SlateCultFest @AllOfItWNYC Film at Lincoln Center (@FilmLinc) is screening a comprehensive retrospective of the last French New Wave master, Luc Moullet. @devikagirgayi, @GinaTelaroli and others the filmography of the iconoclast on @FilmComment:
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On this week’s episode of The Film Comment Podcast, Gina Telaroli (@GinaTelaroli), Benjamin Crais (@bnjmncrs), and Michael Blair join Devika Girish (@devikagirgayi) to spotlight a few unmissable repertory series playing in New York City.
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Now seating: Gina Telaroli, Benjamin Crais, and Michael Blair spotlight unmissable repertory series playing in New York City
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RT @MarkAschParody: now online, my @FilmComment letter on new movie theaters in Ridgewood, Rockaway, the Upper West Side. was really reward….
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Seat yourself: three independent cinemas opening in New York City are betting that audiences still prefer collective experiences of art and urban space
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Now online from The Film Comment Letter: .Mark Asch (@MarkAschParody) reports on three new independent cinemas opening in New York, betting that “audiences still prefer collective experiences of art and urban space over atomized ones.”.
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Seat yourself: three independent cinemas opening in New York City are betting that audiences still prefer collective experiences of art and urban space
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“I try to make films that could not be made with a computer.”. Now online from The Film Comment Letter: Austrian experimental filmmaker Peter Tscherkassky speaks with Justin Remes about using found footage to interrogate and play with the past.
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Train tracks: the Austrian experimental filmmaker discusses using found footage to interrogate and play with the past
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Ela Bittencourt (@Ela_Bittencourt) reports from this year’s Karlovy Vary International Film Festival, which featured new films by Maciej Drygas, Paula Ďurinová, Bill Morrison, and more. Now online from The Film Comment Letter:
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Stop that train: the recursions of a painful past preoccupied many of the best films at this year’s edition of the Czech festival
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RT @812filmreviews: “the notion that emasculated white men are at the core of all of the world’s problems is a liberal cliché that, here, m….
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RT @bealoayza: The love that seems to be going around for Eddington doesn’t infuriate me but ahem here’s me wagging my finger otherwise…fro….
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For this week’s episode of The Film Comment Podcast, Devika Girish (@devikagirgayi) invites Phoebe Chen (@arsepoetica), Bedatri Datta Choudhury (@Bedatri), and Joseph Hernandez to discuss the cinematic appeal of the humble rice cooker.
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Let them cook: Phoebe Chen, Bedatri Datta Choudhury, and Joseph Hernandez join to discuss the humble household appliance’s enduring on-screen appeal
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Now online from The Film Comment Letter: Beatrice Loayza (@bealoayza) reports from Bologna, Italy on this year’s edition of Il Cinema Ritrovato, where distinctions between high and low art dissolved into the heat of the air.
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On fire: at this year’s edition of the festival devoted to rediscoveries and restorations, distinctions between high and low art dissolved into the heat of the air
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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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Start your engines: critics Alana Pockros and Adam Nayman join to discuss F1, Materialists, 28 Years Later, and more
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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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Children‘s song: the 92-year-old filmmaker, visual artist, musician, and activist reflects on her influential body of work, currently the subject of a major retrospective at MoMA PS1
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Roll on: Miriam Bale, Robert Daniels, and Jessica Kiang drop a token and talk Highest 2 Lowest, Alpha, and My Father's Show, and more
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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RT @badiguess: @parietines Reminds me of this very sweet film comment podcast .
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School's out: Genevieve Yue and Isabel Stevens—both critics and parents—discuss what they watch with their children and why (with the kids themselves chiming in, too!)
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