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Kubrick’s Shining - Film Comment
Kubrick’s Shining By Richard T. Jameson. Russ Meyer interviewed by Ed Lowry and Louis Black By Louis Black. Subscribe to the magazine. Camera comes in low over an immense Western lake, its destination apparently a small island at the center that seems to consist of nothing but treetops. Draw nearer, then sweep over and pass the island ...
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 ...
Deep Focus: Come and See - Film Comment
Feb 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 …
50 Best Movies of 2012 | Film Comment's 2012 Critics' Poll
Dec 13, 2012 · Nothing like a good battle royal of cinephile cults to whip voting into a frenzy. In our poll’s lucky 13th edition, Leos Carax’s starry-eyed supporters delivered Holy Motors the top spot, out-mobbing not one but two Andersons, Paul Thomas and Wes. Richard Linklater made his triumphant return with Bernie, an under-the-radar success, while the year yielded some provocative odd-couple ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Deep Focus: The Imitation Game - Film Comment
Nov 26, 2014 · The Imitation Game is a tremendously engaging work of historical fiction about Alan Turing, the British mathematical genius who was key to cracking the military codes of the Nazis’ “unbreakable” Enigma machine.Unlike self-consciously unconventional biopics, The Imitation Game melds fact and invention with lucidity and sweep.The movie time-jumps among three periods in Turing’s life: his ...
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 ...