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Episode 1
This week's two-pronged episode of the Film Comment podcast digs into a varied slate of contemporary filmmaking. First, from the New York Film Festiv…
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Sundance History
Episode 1
The first Sundance Film Festival, then known as the US/Utah Film Festival, took place in 1978 in an effort to bring independent filmmaking talent to …
9 years, 8 months ago
Sundance Critics' Roundtable
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Alpine air, ski-friendly powder, and independent film converge every January at the Sundance Film Festival. And now, as a slight respite from the hyp…
9 years, 8 months ago
Identity
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Ideology and aesthetics have somehow come to be positioned opposite one another—in film criticism, should one be privileged over the other? This epis…
9 years, 8 months ago
Carte Blanche
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Questions of legacy can rile up the creative juices in unexpected ways, especially when filmmakers who win a bit of success are allowed to dive headl…
9 years, 9 months ago
Spooky Christmas
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There’s no single way to celebrate the holiday season, but nearly every custom is centered on family and friends gathering together. In the first seg…
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LGBTQ Representation
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On the other side of the visibility hurdle, questions about queer representation in film persist. Is visibility enough? How much is an appropriate am…
9 years, 9 months ago
The Best Of 2016
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2016 may be ill-suited to fond recollections, but the annual Film Comment Top 20 list does have plenty of good cheer to go around. This year's poll w…
9 years, 9 months ago
The Marginalization Of Cinema
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The clickbait consensus may be that cinema is dead, but the fact of the matter is a bit more nuanced. In the November/December issue of Film Comment,…
9 years, 10 months ago
Tearjerkers and Manchester by the Sea
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There’s more to tearjerkers than the deceptively simple term might suggest, and in this episode of the Film Comment podcast, we consider the nuanced …
9 years, 10 months ago