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By Cici Peng. Calling up the past: Madeleine Hunt-Ehrlich's The Ballad of Suzanne Césaire and Mati Diop's Dahomey both probe the tensions of transmitting memory. Founded in 1962, Film Comment magazine features reviews and analysis of mainstream, art-house, and avant-garde filmmaking from around the world.
Deep Focus: Lion - Film Comment
Dec 1, 2016 — Deep Focus: Lion. By Michael Sragow on December 1, 2016. Lion tells the harrowing fact-based story of a 5-year-old boy from an impoverished hamlet in central India who gets separated from his older brother after a train ride to a nearby city and winds up at the chaotic Howrah Station in Kolkata (the former Calcutta), roughly 1600 kilometers ...
Deep Focus: Hunt for the Wilderpeople - Film Comment
Jun 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 ...
Martin Scorsese’s Guilty Pleasures - Film Comment
By Martin Scorsese in the September-October 1978 Issue. This is the film lover’s list. It’s like a cushion: you can fall asleep thinking of these pictures. If you’re uncomfortable you can lean over and rest on Land of the Pharaohs. From the September-October 1978 Issue. Also in this issue.
Best Movies of 2003 | Film Comment's 2003 Critics' Poll
BEST FILMS OF 2003. 1. Lost In Translation Sofia Coppola, U.S. 2. Mystic River Clint Eastwood, U.S. 3. Elephant Gus Van Sant, U.S. 4. Kill Bill Volume One
Best Movies of 2004 | Film Comment's 2004 Critics' Poll
20 BEST FILMS OF 2004 (Released theatrically in the U.S.)1. Sideways Alexander Payne, U.S. 2. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind Michel Gondry, U.S. 3. Before Sunset Richard Linklater, U.S.
Best Films of 2022 - Film Comment
The title of Charlotte Wells’s film invokes a balm used to soothe skin scorched by an unforgiving sun. Again and again in Aftersun, the characters partake in the restorative rituals of this salve; in recurring close-ups, Calum, a young, separated father, and Sophie, his 11-year-old daughter, rub lotions into each other’s limbs and pale-pink faces as they holiday in a bright, garish resort ...
Podcast Archives - Film Comment
The Film Comment Podcast: Toronto 2024 #4. By Film Comment. September 12, 2024. Bells ring: for our final Podcast from TIFF 2024, David Schwartz, Saffron Maeve, and Robert Daniels join to discuss shorts in the Wavelenghts program, as well as features from Muhammed Hamdy, Wang Bing, and Luca Guadagnino.
Archive - Film Comment
Archive. Founded in 1962 and originally released as a quarterly, Film Comment features reviews and analysis of mainstream, art-house, and avant-garde filmmaking from around the world. 40th anniversary of the Steadicam, Molly Haskell on Paul Verhoeven’s Elle, Kenneth Lonergan’s Manchester by the Sea, LGBT characters in American cinema, the ...
Best Movies of 2007 | Film Comment's 2007 Critics' Poll
20 BEST FILMS OF 2007. 1. No Country for Old Men Joel & Ethan Coen, U.S. 2. There Will Be Blood P.T. Anderson, U.S. 3. Zodiac David Fincher, U.S. 4. Syndromes and a ...