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WEBFounded in 1962, Film Comment magazine features reviews and analysis of mainstream, art-house, and avant-garde filmmaking from around the world.
Best Films of 2021 - Film Comment
WEBThough 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 Movies of 2015 | Film Comment's 2015 Critics' Poll
WEBDec 14, 2015 · A note on the poll’s workings: over 100 North American colleagues ranked their favorites in two categories: 1) those that received theatrical runs and 2) those viewed this year but currently with no announced plans for U.S. theatrical distribution.
Deep Focus: Hunt for the Wilderpeople - Film Comment
WEBJun 23, 2016 · Familiarity breeds affection between an out-of-control 13-year-old Maori boy and a crusty old white bush hand—and between the movie and the audience—in Taika Waititi’s Hunt for the Wilderpeople, a rambunctious, beguiling comedy adventure about fugitives on the run in the New Zealand wilderness.Julian Dennison as Ricky Baker, the roly-poly problem child from foster care, and Sam Neill as ...
Film of the Week: Little Women - Film Comment
WEBDec 25, 2019 · Louisa May Alcott’s novel Little Women (1868-69) is a story about four sisters growing up in the Civil War years; Greta Gerwig’s adaptation is a film about a book named Little Women.Jo March, the sister with literary aspirations—played here by Saoirse Ronan—has always been understood as a surrogate for Alcott herself, and Gerwig’s script makes that explicit.
Let's Make a Deal: Faust on Film - Film Comment
WEBNov 14, 2013 · Watch on. Ray Milland gives his Devil figure an air of suave, slicked-back menace in John Farrow’s noir-to-the-bone morality tale about an honest district attorney seduced by the prospect of a governorship. Like The Devil and Daniel Webster, Alias Nick Beal re-casts the Faust legend as a quintessentially American parable—but whereas the ...
Interview: Catherine Breillat on Last Summer - Film Comment
WEBOct 13, 2023 · Ten years after the release of her last feature, Abuse of Weakness (2013), Catherine Breillat returns with another tale of vertiginous desire. Unfolding in an idyllic country home seemingly cut off from reality, Last Summer tracks the affair between a steely attorney, Anne (a formidable Léa Drucker), and her 17-year-old stepson, Théo (Samuel ...
The Top Film Criticism Sites: An Annotated Blog Roll - Film Comment
WEBUndercurrent. Spartan and straightforward, the online magazine Undercurrent gets by without the hard sell—and that’s no small matter. A labor of love founded by Chris Fujiwara in 2006, Undercurrent is a quintessential small magazine, posting only one or two issues a year yet greatly enriching the world of film criticism.
Queer & Now & Then: 1960 - Film Comment
WEBSep 12, 2018 · Queer & Now & Then: 1960. Flaunting a beauty so cruel it became the stuff of myth, Alain Delon first terrified viewers with his perfection in 1960’s Purple Noon (Plein soleil). He had appeared in smaller roles for a few years before that, such as Pierre Gaspard-Huit’s satisfactory piece of period eye candy, Christine (1958), hovering around ...
Deep Focus: Come and See - Film Comment
WEBFeb 28, 2020 · Come and See (Elem Klimov, 1985). The restoration of Come and See (1985), Elem Klimov’s unblinking depiction of Nazi armies wreaking carnage on Soviet Belorussia in 1943, enables us to view this disturbing, mesmerizing epic with fresh eyes as it turns Klimov’s lens into a burning glass. Originally called Kill Hitler, this film ranks with Kon Ichikawa’s Fires on the Plain as a World War ...