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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.
Working Class Act: Steve Buscemi interview - Film Comment
WEBBy Harlan Jacobson in the July-August 2007 Issue. Steve Buscemi’s career is an American spin-off of the sea change in acting wrought by Alec Guinness 50 years ago. Buscemi’s sourpuss “full-on human rat mode,” as Variety put it recently, ratchets down mythic-sized characters to everyday guys working their humdrum psychopathic cons in ...
Best Movies of 2001 | Film Comment's 2001 Critics' Poll
WEB20 BEST FILMS OF 2001. 1. Mulholland Drive David Lynch, U.S.. 2. In the Mood for Love Wong Kar-wai, Hong Kong. 3. The Royal Tenenbaums Wes Anderson, U.S.. 4. Ghost ...
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WEBNote: Film Comment subscriptions are currently paused, but Film at Lincoln Center is pleased to announce the return of Film Comment with the relaunch of its widely-loved podcast and a brand-new weekly Film Comment Letter—a first step towards bringing the best in film criticism back to the publication’s devoted audience around the world.
Trivial Top 20: Longest Movie Titles - Film Comment
WEB17. The Man Who Might Have Been: An Inquiry Into the Life and Death of Herbert Norman John Kramer, 1998. 18. The Incredibly Strange Creatures Who Stopped Living and Became Mixed-Up Zombies Ray Dennis Steckler, 1964. 19. Long Strange Trip, or The Writer, the Naked Girl, and the Guy with a Hole in His Head Peter Wick, 1999.
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: 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 ...
Review: A Burning Hot Summer - Film Comment
WEBWith A Burning Hot Summer (a ramped-up translation of Un été brûlant), Garrel delves back into terrain he last explored in the underrated Phantom Heart (96), but from a fresh perspective. For the first time, his surrogate, Paul (Jérome Robart), is an observer rather than a protagonist, Nick Carraway to Louis Garrel’s Gatsby-ish sybarite ...
Interview: Andrzej Wajda - Film Comment
WEBFeb 8, 2017 · Interview: Andrzej Wajda. When Andrzej Wajda died last October at age 90, he left behind more than a canonical body of work. His 35-plus fiction features, his documentaries, his plays for television, and over 30 live stage productions that often breathed contemporary social urgency into classics, amount to a vast cultural legacy.
The Great Recession: American Movie Acting Today - Film Comment
WEBWhen she speaks, her jaw is set; her delivery slides between hostility and contempt. Only once does she break open, in a revealing scene in which Ree begs her catatonically depressed mother to help save their house from the bail bondsman. Kneeling in front of her mother, who looks away, Lawrence’s eyes widen and tear.