Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchSatire’s Funny Like That
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In the March/April issue of Film Comment, Lauren Kaminsky wrote about Armando Iannucci’s The Death of Stalin: "a delirious historical mash-up that co…
8 years, 6 months ago
Tell Me
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All too often, women’s opinions are considered valuable only in certain situations: when there’s a problem affecting women, when there’s an opportuni…
8 years, 7 months ago
Personal Problems (The Movie)
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Featuring the talents of Bill Gunn (Ganja & Hess), Vertamae Grosvenor (Daughters of the Dust), Ishmael Reed, and many others, Personal Problems was o…
8 years, 7 months ago
The Cinema of Experience II
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From the way in which the experiences of African Americans are portrayed on screen, to the way skin color is captured on film, the history of movies …
8 years, 7 months ago
The Rise of Valeska Grisebach
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Valeska Grisebach’s extremely precise yet highly naturalistic films take years to make: so far, we have been graced with only three features. In the …
8 years, 7 months ago
China Goes To The Movies
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After being notorious as a “hotbed” of piracy for many years, the Chinese market is now more rightly regarded as the second-largest in the world. In …
8 years, 8 months ago
I Loved It When I Was a Kid
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Recent episodes of The Film Comment Podcast have contemplated formative filmmaker obsessions, but what about the movies that struck us much earlier i…
8 years, 8 months ago
Apichatpong Weerasethakul on SLEEPCINEMAHOTEL
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One of the most curious entries at this year’s International Film Festival Rotterdam (which runs January 24 to February 4) isn’t a film at all, but a…
8 years, 8 months ago
Let’s Eat
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Food is versatile on film. Consider the ways it’s used in Tampopo, Daisies, Babette’s Feast, and The Cook, The Thief, His Wife, and Her Lover. This w…
8 years, 8 months ago
Sundance 2018: Day Seven
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It’s Sundance, day seven! FC Editor-in-Chief Nicolas Rapold is joined by Amy Taubin, FC contributing editor and Sundance veteran, to discuss the evol…
8 years, 8 months ago