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Cannes 2021 # 1, with Miriam Bale and Jonathan Romney
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After a Cannes-less 2020, we were glad to welcome back cinema’s grandest event. Film Comment followed the festival’s stellar lineup with the help of …
5 years, 2 months ago
Happy Birthday, America! with A. S. Hamrah
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As the good old U. S. of A. celebrated yet another year around the sun, Film Comment editors Clinton Krute and Devika Girish invited critic A.S. Hamr…
5 years, 3 months ago
James Benning’s Ten Skies with Erika Balsom
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In the introduction to her new book on James Benning’s 2004 film, Ten Skies, critic and scholar Erika Balsom writes: “there are films that present th…
5 years, 3 months ago
New Red Order
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A couple weeks ago, I (Devika) visited the Artists Space gallery in downtown Manhattan to check out the ongoing exhibit, "Feel at Home Here," by New …
5 years, 3 months ago
Movie Doubles with K. Austin Collins and Mayukh Sen
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This week, we sat down with critics K. Austin Collins and Mayukh Sen—to talk about one of the most enduring motifs in movie history: the double. We …
5 years, 4 months ago
NYFF58 Redux with Dan Sullivan and Steve Macfarlane
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Last year’s hybrid New York Film Festival was an oasis amid the movie desert of the pandemic, but we sorely missed seeing the selections in the dark …
5 years, 4 months ago
Homework, with Nellie Killian and Ina Archer
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This week on the podcast, Film Comment editors Devika Girish and Clinton Krute went to school with two learned FC veterans: Nellie Killian, curator a…
5 years, 4 months ago
At Home, Palestinian Cinema Edition with Kaleem Hawa
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In an essay on the militant films of the Palestine Film Unit for The New York Review of Books, the critic Kaleem Hawa writes that, “Palestinian cinem…
5 years, 4 months ago
Barry Jenkins on The Underground Railroad
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On this week’s podcast, Film Comment editors Clinton Krute and Devika Girish speak to Barry Jenkins, Oscar-winning director of Moonlight and If Beale…
5 years, 4 months ago
The Maverick Movies of Melvin Van Peebles
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This week on the podcast, we went long on an American filmmaker like no other: Melvin Van Peebles. Known for groundbreaking classics like Watermelon …
5 years, 5 months ago