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Home of the finest independent film journalism since 1962, @FilmComment is debuting a quarterly digital magazine, offering subscribers access to cover features, reviews, in-depth interviews, reporting from top film festivals, podcasts, and more.
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"I recently wrote to a colleague in Paris that I thought Radu Jude . . . might be the most important filmmaker in Europe today." Longtime mutual admirers J. Hoberman and Radu Jude discuss “bad” movies, Jude’s novel use of A.I. images in Dracula, and more. filmcomment.com/article/pen-…
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"This year on the Croisette, it’s easy to lose count of the number of logos that precede a film’s opening credits, representing money patchworked together from across multiple countries, each contribution with its own strings attached."
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Author and contributor to @reverse_shot, @ScreenSlate, @LWLies, and more @MarkAschParody discusses how @Festival_Cannes selections Fjord, The Beloved, and I'll Be Gone in June grapple with what’s lost—and gained—in translation.
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"My guiding principle in the essays to come will be to place materials from the past in dialogue with something contemporary, to engage the archive as a living entity that speaks to our moment."
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The first of longtime @FilmComment contributor Nathan Lee's new column revisits an article from FC's November-December 2013 issue titled “E Pluribus Unum,” a 14-page comprehensive narrative of Film Comment’s history. filmcomment.com/article/revi…
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"Conversely, Uncle Gary (a typically roguish Adam Driver), a former NYPD officer–turned–street-smart businessman, first waltzes into the Pearls’ home like a king, carting in a few trays of takeout from the high-end steakhouse Peter Luger."
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Critic and @FilmComment contributing editor @bealoayza writes about standouts such as James Gray’s Paper Tiger, Ryûsuke Hamaguchi’s All of a Sudden, and Radu Jude’s The Diary of a Chambermaid at @Festival_Cannes. filmcomment.com/article/cann…
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Nigerian-born, U.K.–based brothers Arie and Chuko Esiri Clarissa "arrived at the Directors’ Fortnight at this year’s @Festival_Cannes like an invigorating sea breeze, cutting through a festival where the movies, even when well-made and ambitious, rarely felt fresh or novel."
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FC Editor @devikagirgayi sat down with directors Arie and Chuko Esiri and editor @__seab to discuss their Cannes 2026 standout, a Nigeria-set adaptation of Virginia Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway. filmcomment.com/article/inte…
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“I want to keep my mood in the middle, so that when I’m acting I have space to go up and down. If I’m too high, then I can’t go any higher.”
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Senior Editor at @Criterion Andrew Chan sat down with the great actor—and star of the new film Silent Friend—Tony Leung to delve into his minimalist approach and remarkable career. Silent Friend is in theaters now at @FilmLinc. filmlinc.org/films/silent-fr…
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Read the full article and subscribe now to support independent, nonprofit film criticism. filmcomment.com/article/stil…
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Film Comment Magazine retweeted
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- @FilmComment Live: Hold Everything Dear — John Berger and Cinema | July 29-August 2
From July 29 to August 2 at FLC, @BAMfilmBrooklyn, @AnthologyFilm, @MovingImageNYC, and @Metrograph, this series features a selection of films that Berger worked on, wrote about, or inspired, along with talks that reinvigorate his intellectual and political legacy for contemporary film culture. The series begins July 29 at FLC with Pier Paolo Pasolini and Giovannino Guareschi’s rarely screened LA RABBIA DI PASOLINI, followed by a conversation about the legacy of John Berger.
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Calling all New York City–based emerging critics: apply to the 2026 FLC Critics Academy by Thursday, June 18!
Learn more and apply: filmlinc.org/academies
Early-career critics with a minimum of two years of experience creating original film criticism or journalism in online, print, and/or audiovisual formats are welcome to apply for a two-day workshop intensive during #NYFF64.
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From reviews of "charismatic athletes . . . transformed into just another element of Warner Bros franchise IP" to interviews with former basketball player turned award-winning filmmaker @ramellross, our Archive has everything you need to marry your love of film and basketball.
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Subscribe to access the treasure trove that is the complete @FilmComment Archive—all issues published since 1962 digitized, indexed, and searchable. filmcomment.com/archive/
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