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WEBThe Film Comment Letter is a free weekly digital newsletter featuring original film criticism and writing—including the Film Comment Podcast, features, reviews, interviews, streaming picks, news, and more. The Letter launches this spring, and will be delivered directly to subscribers’ inboxes every Thursday before being made available on ...
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 ...
Podcast Archives - Film Comment
WEBSay it again: Jed Rapfogel of Anthology Film Archives joins to discuss a new series featuring films that make verbatim use of real-life sources. The Film Comment Podcast is a weekly space for critical conversation about film, with a look at topical issues, new releases, and the big picture. Subscribe on Soundcloud, iTunes, Spotify, Amazon ...
Unproduced and Unfinished Films: An Ongoing Film Comment …
WEBWritten by Paul Webb, Daniels’s ambitious passion project about Lyndon Johnson, Martin Luther King and the marches that led to civil rights reform was set up at The Weinstein Company and the cast included Hugh Jackman, Liam Neeson, David Oyelowo, Ray Winstone, Robert De Niro, and Cedric the Entertainer.
Cannes Interview: Ryûsuke Hamaguchi - Film Comment
WEBJul 16, 2021 — The romantic Demy-esque coincidences that spin the Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy came first, winning the Silver Bear at this year’s Berlinale. In this suite of Hamaguchi’s “short stories,” he plays daft Fate over a ronde of cool literary types and their enchanting missed connections.
Paul Thomas Anderson's The Master - Film Comment
WEBMany paying customers will line up for The Master —a fortunate few will line up to see it in 70mm—expecting a thinly veiled adaptation of last year’s New Yorker profile of apostate Paul Haggis. They are destined to be disappointed. Anderson is too interested in Hubbard and Scientology to be content with merely condemning them.
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.
Interview: Greta Gerwig on Little Women - Film Comment
WEBIn early October, I met up with Gerwig in New York to chat about Little Women, in a conversation as lively and full of revelations and references as her film. Saoirse Ronan, Laura Dern, Eliza Scanlen, Florence Pugh and Emma Watson in Greta Gerwig's Little Women. Wilson Webb/Sony Pictures. I read Little Women as a child, and I …
Foundas on Film: The Dark Knight Rises - Film Comment
WEBJul 18, 2012 — Inception ’s undying femme fatale, Marion Cotillard, is on hand as a Gotham philanthropist with a hankering for clean energy. Elsewhere, Batman finds himself both aided and one-upped by the slinky seductress cum cat burglar Selina Kyle (Anne Hathaway), a resourceful bandit who aims not to save Gotham but merely herself, from a …
For Whom the Bell Tolls - Film Comment
WEBJun 10, 2024 — This article appeared in the June 7, 2024 edition of The Film Comment Letter, our free weekly newsletter featuring original film criticism and writing. Sign up for the Letter here. Chime (Kiyoshi Kurosawa, 2024) There’s something in the air in the films of Kiyoshi Kurosawa: over five decades into a career defined in equal measure by prolificness and idiosyncrasy, the Japanese filmmaker has ...
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