Founded in 1962, Film Comment has been the home of independent film journalism for over 50 years, publishing in-depth interviews, critical analysis, and feature coverage of mainstream, art-house, and avant-garde filmmaking from around the world. The Film Comment Podcast, hosted by editors Devika Girish and Clinton Krute, is a weekly space for critical conversation about film, with a look at topical issues, new releases, and the big picture. Film Comment is a nonprofit publication that relies ...
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Welcome to Doors & Corners, a sci-fi and fantasy film commentary podcast. Each week we watch a film together and discuss our favorite parts of it along with our not so favorite parts. Join us as we journey together through the deep and rich world of science fiction and fantasy filmmaking!
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Various films being analyzed, criticized, and idolized by our panel while sharing a few drinks.
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Alternative Commentaries For Movies That Suck
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Caden Mark Gardner and Willow Catelyn Maclay on the Trans Film Image
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In April 2021, Film Comment published a Trans Cinema Roundtable Podcast, in which two trans film critics and two trans filmmakers answered questions submitted by listeners on what constitutes a cinema of transness. Now, two of those panelists—Caden Mark Gardner and Willow Catelyn Maclay—are about to publish a new book on that very subject. Corpses,…
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This week on Doors & Corners we watch Battle: Los Angeles (2011) with Brian & Zach저자 Doors & Corners
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This week on Doors & Corners we watch Mad Max: Fury Road (2015) with Brian & Zach저자 Doors & Corners
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Critics have been buzzing about Richard Linklater’s Hit Man since it premiered at festivals last year. A charming mix of screwball and noir, the film takes inspiration from the real-life story of Gary Johnson, a schoolteacher who for years moonlighted as a pretend hit man in Houston, helping local police entrap folks who would reach out to him to o…
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Join us for a special edition episode this Father's Day as we watch one of the greats! The Hunt for Red October (1990) with Brian & Zach저자 Doors & Corners
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This week on Doors & Corners we watch Stargate (1994) with Brian & Zach저자 Doors & Corners
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This week on Doors & Corners we watch War for the Planet of the Apes (2017) with Brian & Zach저자 Doors & Corners
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This week on Doors & Corners we watch Dawn of the Planet of the Apes (2014) with Brian & Zach저자 Doors & Corners
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Cannes 2024 #10, with Kiyoko McCrae, Adam Piron, Alemberg Ang, and Viv Li
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For the last two weeks, our on-the-Croisette crew of Film Comment contributors has been reporting from the 2024 Cannes Film Festival with a series of thoughtful dispatches, interviews, and podcasts.Before the festival officially drew to a close last Saturday, Film Comment Editor Devika Girish moderated a panel about documentary ethics in the Cannes…
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Cannes 2024 is in wrapping up this weekend—and our intrepid on-the-Croisette crew of Film Comment contributors has been high-tailing it from screening to screening, cutting through the noise with a series of thoughtful dispatches, interviews, and podcasts.For our (nearly) final episode from the sunny shores of Southern France, Dennis Lim, Artistic …
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This week on Doors & Corners we watch Rise of the Planet of the Apes (2011) with Brian & Zach저자 Doors & Corners
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Cannes 2024 #8, with Beatrice Loayza, Giovanni Marchini Camia, and Caitlin Quinlan
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Cannes 2024 is in full swing—and our intrepid on-the-Croisette crew of Film Comment contributors has been high-tailing it from screening to screening, cutting through the noise with a series of thoughtful dispatches, interviews, and podcasts.On our latest episode from the sunny shores of Southern France, critics Beatrice Loayza, Giovanni Marchini C…
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Cannes 2024 is in full swing—and our intrepid on-the-Croisette crew of Film Comment contributors has been high-tailing it from screening to screening, cutting through the noise with a series of thoughtful dispatches, interviews, and podcasts.On our latest episode from the sunny shores of Southern France, critics Guy Lodge and Adam Piron join Film C…
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Cannes 2024 #6, with Robert Daniels, Miriam Bale, and Mark Asch
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Cannes 2024 is in full swing—and our intrepid on-the-Croisette crew of Film Comment contributors has been high-tailing it from screening to screening, cutting through the noise with a series of thoughtful dispatches, interviews, and podcasts.For our latest episode from the shores of the Riviera, critics Robert Daniels, Miriam Bale, and Mark Asch jo…
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Cannes 2024 #5, with Kevin B. Lee, Abby Sun, and Vadim Rizov
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Cannes 2024 has arrived—and our intrepid on-the-Croisette crew of Film Comment contributors is high-tailing it from screening to screening, ready to cut through the noise with a series of thoughtful dispatches, interviews, and podcasts.On today’s episode, Film Comment Editor Devika Girish is joined by Kevin B. Lee, Abby Sun, and Vadim Rizov to deba…
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Cannes 2024 #4: Guy Maddin, Evan Johnson, and Galen Johnson on Rumours
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Cannes 2024 has arrived—and our intrepid on-the-Croisette crew of Film Comment contributors is high-tailing it from screening to screening, ready to cut through the noise with a series of thoughtful dispatches, interviews, and podcasts.On today’s episode, Film Comment Editor Devika Girish sat down with Canadian filmmakers Guy Maddin, Evan Johnson, …
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Cannes 2024 #3, with Jessica Kiang and Kelli Weston
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Cannes 2024 has arrived—and our intrepid on-the-Croisette crew of Film Comment contributors is high-tailing it from screening to screening, ready to cut through the noise with a series of thoughtful dispatches, interviews, and podcasts.For today’s episode, critics Kelli Weston and Jessica Kiang join Film Comment Editor Devika Girish to unpack three…
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This week on Doors & Corners we watch Dredd (2012) with Brian & Zach저자 Doors & Corners
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Cannes 2024 has arrived—and our intrepid on-the-Croisette crew of Film Comment contributors is high-tailing it from screening to screening, ready to cut through the noise with a series of thoughtful dispatches, interviews, and podcasts.For this episode, Film Comment Editor Devika Girish is joined by Cannes veterans and all-star FC critics Bilge Ebi…
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Cannes 2024 #1, with Beatrice Loayza and Isabel Stevens
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Cannes 2024 has arrived—and our intrepid on-the-Croisette crew of Film Comment contributors is high-tailing it from screening to screening, ready to cut through the noise with a series of thoughtful dispatches, interviews, and podcasts.To kick things off, Film Comment Editor Devika Girish sat down with our contributor Beatrice Loayza (stay tuned fo…
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Writing About Avant-Garde Cinema, with Ayanna Dozier, Amy Taubin, and Genevieve Yue
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Avant-garde cinema emerged in direct conversation with the film criticism that contextualized, championed, and critiqued it. Writing about work that is premised on defying formulaic intelligibility, and which invites us to reach beyond language to other modes of interpretation, can be both challenging and thrilling—requiring the critic to draw on a…
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This week on Doors & Corners we watch Judge Dredd (1995) with Brian & Zach저자 Doors & Corners
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This week on Doors & Corners we watch Star Wars: Rogue One (2016) with Brian, Zach & Patrick.저자 Doors & Corners
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Every year, Film at Lincoln Center honors a luminary of the film industry with the Chaplin Award. This year’s honoree is a beloved screen icon: the Dude, the Starman, the legend—Jeff Bridges. In advance of the 49th Chaplin Award Gala, taking place on April 29, Devika sat down with Bridges for a look back at the actor’s long career. Taking inspirati…
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This week on Doors & Corners we watch Dune Part 1 (2021) with Brian, Zach & Patrick.저자 Doors & Corners: Sci-Fi and Fantasy Film Commentaries
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This week on Doors & Corners we watch Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves (2023) with Brian and Zach저자 Doors & Corners
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From the early ’70s onwards, Indian cinematographer Navroze Contractor—who passed away last year at age 80—blazed a trail of radical image-making. Trained in fine arts, photography, and cinematography, Contractor wielded the camera as a weapon and a paintbrush, capturing both the thrills and the throes of popular uprisings in films that defined pol…
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This week on Doors & Corners we watch the original Dune film from 1984 with Brian, Zach & Patrick저자 Doors & Corners
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In his new book The Rebel’s Clinic: The Revolutionary Lives of Frantz Fanon, Adam Shatz writes that, “The American poet Amiri Baraka described James Baldwin, who was born a year before Fanon, as ‘God’s Black revolutionary mouth.’ What Baldwin was for America, Fanon was for the world, especially the insurgent Third World, those subjects of European …
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In this first introductory episode of Doors & Corners, Brian and Zach introduce themselves and talk about their new podcast where they record commentaries on various science fiction and fantasy films. You will get to know them a little and why they wanted to begin this podcast.저자 Doors & Corners: Sci-Fi and Fantasy Film Commentaries
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Christine Smallwood’s new book on Chantal Akerman’s Proust adaptation, La Captive, is, among many things, a meditation on the act of criticism. Published as part of The Decadent Editions series from Fireflies Press, this slim, pocket-sized volume takes Akerman’s year-2000 feature as a jumping-off point for an exploration of the great Belgian filmma…
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Last fall, director Bertrand Bonello’s latest, The Beast, was a thrilling highlight of the festival circuit. The film is a loose, two-and-a-half-hour, time-and-space-jumping adaptation of Henry James’ 1903 novella The Beast in the Jungle, in which a man refuses love believing that he is destined for a catastrophe. In The Beast, a woman named Gabrie…
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New Directors/New Films 2024, with Vadim Rizov and Alissa Wilkinson
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Every spring the New Directors/New Films festival at Film at Lincoln Center and MoMA puts on an exciting showcase of movies by the best emerging filmmakers around the world. It’s always a reliable sign of the trends to come and the talents to look out for—past editions have featured early films by Spike Lee, Christopher Nolan, Kelly Reichardt, and …
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In our May-June 2020 issue, the scholar Aboubakar Sanogo wrote of Med Hondo, the late, great Mauritanian-French filmmaker: “For Hondo, decolonization and independence were not simply a matter of regime change from colonial to postcolonial, but rather a radical geopolitical and avant-gardist project. The cinema had its part to play in the realizatio…
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Oscars Preview with The Los Angeles Review of Books
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It’s once again that time of year: that’s right, the Academy Awards are just around the corner. Before the winners are revealed on Sunday, Film Comment Editors Devika Girish and Clinton Krute teamed up with some colleagues from Tinseltown—the editors of the Los Angeles Review of Books—to preview this year’s nominees. Eric Newman, editor-at-large at…
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Berlinale 2024 #6, with Jordan Cronk, Giovanni Marchini Camia, and Beatrice Loayza
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The 2024 Berlinale wrapped up on Sunday, February 25, after a fortnight of buzzy premieres and fraught political controversies. The Film Comment crew was on the ground throughout the festival, reporting on each day’s goings-on via daily Podcasts, dispatches, interviews and more. On the final Friday of the festival, FC Editor Devika Girish gathered …
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Berlinale 2024 #5, with Ela Bittencourt and Frédéric Jaeger
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This week, Film Comment is reporting from Berlin, where the 2024 Berlinale kicked off on February 15. Throughout the festival, we’ll be sharing daily podcasts, dispatches, and interviews covering all the highlights of this year’s selection, including new films by Olivier Assayas, Mati Diop, Bruno Dumont, Hong Sangsoo, and many more. Subscribe to th…
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Berlinale 2024 #4, with Jonathan Ali, Frédéric Jaeger, and Antoine Thirion + Christine Vachon
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This week, Film Comment is reporting from Berlin, where the 2024 Berlinale kicked off on February 15. Throughout the festival, we’ll be sharing daily podcasts, dispatches, and interviews covering all the highlights of this year’s selection, including new films by Olivier Assayas, Mati Diop, Bruno Dumont, Hong Sangsoo, and many more. Subscribe to th…
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Berlinale 2024 #3, with Olivier Assayas on Suspended Time
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This week, Film Comment is reporting from Berlin, where the 2024 Berlinale kicked off on February 15. Throughout the festival, we’ll be sharing daily podcasts, dispatches, and interviews covering all the highlights of this year’s selection, including new films by Olivier Assayas, Mati Diop, Bruno Dumont, Hong Sangsoo, and many more. Subscribe to th…
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Berlinale 2024 #2, with Erika Balsom, Beatrice Loayza, and Giovanni Marchini Camia
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This week, Film Comment is reporting from Berlin, where the 2024 Berlinale kicked off on February 15. Throughout the festival, we’ll be sharing daily podcasts, dispatches, and interviews covering all the highlights of this year’s selection, including new films by Olivier Assayas, Mati Diop, Bruno Dumont, Hong Sangsoo, and many more. Subscribe to th…
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Berlinale 2024 #1, with Jordan Cronk, Jessica Kiang, and Jonathan Romney
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This week, Film Comment is reporting from Berlin, where the 2024 Berlinale kicked off on February 15. Throughout the festival, we’ll be sharing daily podcasts, dispatches, and interviews covering all the highlights of this year’s selection, including new films by Olivier Assayas, Mati Diop, Bruno Dumont, Hong Sangsoo, and many more. Subscribe to th…
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The Films of Ilkka Järvi-Laturi, with Steve Macfarlane and Hannu Björkbacka
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The Finnish filmmaker Ilkka Järvi-Laturi, subject of an ongoing retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art, made only three features in his life, each of which is maverick in its own right. His 1989 debut, Homebound, is a gritty realist film about a young man struggling to escape a cycle of violence; City Unplugged sets a heist in the wake of Estoni…
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Last week, FC Editor Devika Girish attended the International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR)—a Dutch festival that, since its inception in 1972, has become known for showcasing independent and experimental cinema by both emerging and established filmmakers. This year was no exception, with a lineup that spanned feature debuts like The Ballad of Suz…
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Sundance 2024 #5, with Monica Castillo, Robert Daniels, and Vadim Rizov
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It’s January, which means that your intrepid Film Comment crew is once again on the scene in snowy Park City, bringing you dispatches, interviews, and podcasts covering all the highlights of the 2024 edition. For the next week, we’ll be gathering the best critics on the scene to talk about each day’s premieres on the Podcast.On today’s episode, Fil…
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Sundance 2024 #4, with Justin Chang, Vadim Rizov, and Madeline Whittle
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It’s January, which means that your intrepid Film Comment crew is once again on the scene in snowy Park City, bringing you dispatches, interviews, and podcasts covering all the highlights of the 2024 edition. For the next week, we’ll be gathering the best critics on the scene to talk about each day’s premieres on the Podcast.On today’s episode, Fil…
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Sundance 2024 #3, with Vadim Rizov, Abby Sun, and Madeline Whittle
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It’s January, which means that your intrepid Film Comment crew is once again on the scene in snowy Park City, bringing you dispatches, interviews, and podcasts covering all the highlights of the 2024 edition. For the next week, we’ll be gathering the best critics on the scene to talk about each day’s premieres on the Podcast.Today, Film Comment Co-…
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Sundance 2024 #2 with Guy Lodge, Robert Daniels, and Madeline Whittle
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It’s January, which means that your intrepid Film Comment crew is once again on the scene in snowy Park City, bringing you dispatches, interviews, and podcasts covering all the highlights of the 2024 edition. For the next week, we’ll be gathering the best critics on the scene to talk about each day’s premieres on the Podcast.Today, Film Comment Co-…
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It’s January, which means that your intrepid Film Comment crew is once again on the scene in snowy Park City, bringing you dispatches, interviews, and podcasts covering all the highlights of the 2024 edition. For the next week, we’ll be gathering the best critics on the scene to talk about each day’s premieres on the Podcast.To kick things off, Fil…
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Nancy Savoca and Vincent D’Onofrio on Household Saints
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More than thirty years ago, director Nancy Savoca premiered what the New York Times described as a “miracle” of a film. Household Saints was adapted from a novel by Francine Prose about three generations of an Italian-American family navigating faith and modernity in post–World War II New York City. The movie brought together an incredible ensemble…
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New Year, New Releases, with Alissa Wilkinson and Robert Daniels
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Every January, Film Comment editors Devika Girish and Clinton Krute like to take stock of holiday multiplex offerings with an episode they call "New Year, New Releases." For the 2024 edition, they invited FC podcast veteran Alissa Wilkinson, staff critic at the New York Times, and first-time guest Robert Daniels, an editor at RogerEbert.com. They s…
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