Access points: the first-ever documentary showcase held within a U.S. prison included a slate of competing films judged by an incarcerated jury at Filmcomment.com

When the cast of Robert Zemeckis’s Here was announced two years ago, Gump-heads rejoiced. Three decades after Forrest Gump (1994), Tom Hanks and Robin Wright were reuniting with Zemeckis (along with screenwriter Eric Roth, cinematographer Don ... at Filmcomment.com

Hong Sangsoo's A Traveler's Needs explores how communication across languages can be both obfuscating and revelatory at Filmcomment.com

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Here at Film Comment, we live by Serge Daney’s motto: “Cinephilia is not only a particular relationship to cinema, it is a relationship to the world through cinema.” We love moving images because they nourish, entertain, and educate us, and also ... at Filmcomment.com

This article appeared in the November 8, 2024 edition of The Film Comment Letter, our free weekly newsletter featuring original film criticism and writing. Sign up for the Letter here. Guns (Robert Kramer, 1980). Courtesy of Re:Voir. One of the oldest ... at Filmcomment.com

To make a movie is to appropriate—either that which is before the camera or something already filmed. These days, I prefer the latter. Terrific compilation docs shown in festivals this past year include Oksana Karpovych’s Intercepted, Kuba Mikurda’s ... at Filmcomment.com

The Film Comment Podcast: Julianne Moore on The Room Next Door. Artificial heart: the great American actress discusses her role in the latest from Pedro Almodóvar, which co-stars Tilda Swinton as a dying woman who makes a daring request of an old friend, played brilliantly by Moore at Filmcomment.com

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The Film Comment Podcast: Julianne Moore on The Room Next Door. By Film Comment. November 19, 2024. Artificial heart: the great American actress discusses her role in the latest from Pedro Almodóvar, which co-stars Tilda Swinton as a dying woman who makes a daring request of an old friend, played brilliantly by Moore. at Filmcomment.com

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The top 20 films of 2023 were unveiled at the live event with critics Amy Taubin and Bilge Ebiri, moderated by Film Comment ’s Co-Editors, Devika Girish and Clinton Krute; the lively discussion is now available on the Film Comment Podcast.The complete lists of released and undistributed films are included below. at Filmlinc.org

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The top 10 films of 2021 were unveiled last night at a special live talk with critics Bilge Ebiri, Edo Choi, and Beatrice Loayza, moderated by Film Comment’s Co-Deputy Editors, Devika Girish and Clinton Krute; listen to the lively discussion on this week’s Film Comment podcast. The complete lists of released and unreleased films are ... at Filmlinc.org

March-April 2020. Kelly Reichardt’s First Cow, Kleber Mendonça Filho and Juliano Dornelles’s radical genre mashup Bacurau, Nick Pinkerton on the maximalism of Hollywood royal King Vidor, an interview with Saturday Fiction director Lou Ye, and J. Hoberman on Thomas Heise’s epic essay film Heimat Is a Space in Time.Plus: Michael Koresky on the enduring promise of cinema, Pietro Marcello ... at Filmcomment.com