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Roy Andersson’s About Endlessness
Episode 1
“The people are all pale as mushrooms, blending in with the ashen cityscapes, sterile white rooms, and drab, half-empty restaurants. Stuck in meticul…
5 years, 5 months ago
New Directors/New Films 2021 Critics’ Preview
Episode 1
This last year has been a drought for movie-lovers by most standards. But if you’re looking for silver linings, you could do worse than noting that t…
5 years, 5 months ago
Trans Cinema Roundtable
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“A film that centers on a transgender person or storyline enters the culture like any other movie. The difference lies in the discourse around it.” S…
5 years, 5 months ago
At Home, Oscars Edition with A.S. Hamrah and Blair McClendon
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On this week's episode, editors Clinton Krute and Devika Girish were joined two excellent writers, both first-timers on the Film Comment Podcast: A. …
5 years, 6 months ago
Raoul Peck on Exterminate All the Brutes
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For years, Haitian filmmaker Raoul Peck has been crafting eloquent correctives to Eurocentric and capitalist histories through acclaimed films like L…
5 years, 6 months ago
Adam Curtis's Can't Get You Out of My Head
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A few weeks ago, the British documentarian Adam Curtis debuted his newest mega-project online: a six-episode, eight-hour BBC series titled, Can’t Get…
5 years, 6 months ago
The Return of Movie Gifts with K. Austin Collins and Adam Nayman
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On this week's episode, we bring back a beloved Film Comment Podcast format of yore: Movie Gifts. It’s like Secret Santa but for movies—each particip…
5 years, 6 months ago
Virtual Festivals with Abby Sun and Jessica Kiang
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In case you missed the exciting news: we just relaunched the Film Comment Podcast last week after a yearlong hiatus. We’re glad to be back, and in th…
5 years, 7 months ago
Berlinale 2021 Wrap
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Welcome back to the Film Comment Podcast. After a months-long hiatus prompted by the Covid-19 pandemic, we are thrilled to kick off the return of Fil…
5 years, 7 months ago
At Home #16: Devika Girish and Clinton Krute
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It’s been a while since we did a new episode in our Film Comment Podcast: at Home series. Let me assure you that’s not because we’ve stopped watching…
6 years, 5 months ago