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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Cannes 2024 #7, with Guy Lodge and Adam Piron
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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 & ZachOleh Doors & Corners
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Cannes 2024 #2, with Bilge Ebiri and Jonathan Romney
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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 & ZachOleh Doors & Corners
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This week on Doors & Corners we watch Star Wars: Rogue One (2016) with Brian, Zach & Patrick.Oleh 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.Oleh Doors & Corners: Sci-Fi and Fantasy Film Commentaries
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Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves (2023)
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This week on Doors & Corners we watch Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves (2023) with Brian and ZachOleh Doors & Corners
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Tribute to Navroze Contractor, with Deepa Dhanraj
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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 & PatrickOleh Doors & Corners
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Adam Shatz on Frantz Fanon in Cinema
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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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Introduction to Doors & Corners
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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.Oleh Doors & Corners: Sci-Fi and Fantasy Film Commentaries
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Christine Smallwood on Chantal Akerman’s La Captive
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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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The Films of Med Hondo, with Aboubakar Sanogo
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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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IFFR 2024, with Beatrice Loayza and Jordan Cronk
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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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Sundance 2024 #1, with Lovia Gyarkye and Guy Lodge
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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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The Best Films Of 2023, with Bilge Ebiri and Amy Taubin
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Last night, Film Comment Editors Clinton Krute and Devika Girish headed a panel of special guests—Bilge Ebiri (critic, Vulture), and Amy Taubin (critic and FC contributing editor)—for a real-time countdown of the films topping our year-end critics’ poll. The evening featured a lively discussion (and some hearty debate) about the films as they were …
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Stanley Schtinter and Erika Balsom on Last Movies
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In the epigraph to his new book, writer-slash-film programmer-slash-performance artist Stanley Schtinter succinctly describes his project: “Last Movies is a dedication to the absence of choice, to chance. If there is any bias in the cast-list it is a bias coded into the tell-ing of the first century of cinema (that I parasitise); the result, a fore…
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Paul B. Preciadio on Orlando, My Political Biography
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This year’s Berlinale saw the filmmaking debut of acclaimed philosopher Paul B. Preciado with the feature, Orlando, My Political Biography. Born in Spain and based in France, Preciado is the author of a number of groundbreaking texts about gender and sexuality—including his 2008 work of "auto-theory," Testo Junkie, in which Preciado weaves reflecti…
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Mumbai Film Festival, with Inney Prakash
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After a three-year hiatus induced by the COVID-19 pandemic, the 2023 Jio MAMI Mumbai Film Festival returned this year with a new curatorial team and a robust lineup of independent and art-house work from all over South Asia and beyond. One of the major international film festivals in the region, MAMI (as it is colloquially known) is a unique combin…
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Lisa Cortés on Little Richard: I Am Everything
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Midway through the new documentary Little Richard: I Am Everything, actor and singer Billy Porter says something that distills one of the film’s major themes: “In the face of insurmountable challenges, sometimes simply existing is a revolutionary act.” The film, directed by the multi-hyphenate filmmaker Lisa Cortés, tells the story of one of the gr…
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Halloween Hangover 2023, with Clyde Folley and Nicholas Russell
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It’s once again that time of year when ghosts, ghouls, and goblins are on the prowl. That’s right: it’s Halloween. And as much as we are scared to admit it, that means it’s also time for another Halloween Hangover episode of the Film Comment Podcast, where co-editors Devika Girish and Clinton Krute confront one of their greatest fears—horror movies…
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NYFF61 Festival Report, with Molly Haskell, Adam Nayman, and Kelli Weston
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The 61st New York Film Festival closed up shop last weekend, which means that it was once again time for Film Comment’s Festival Report, our annual live overview of the NYFF that was. FC co-deputy editors Devika Girish and Clinton Krute convened an all-star team of critics—Molly Haskell, Adam Nayman, and Kelli Weston—for a spirited wrap-up discussi…
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Trust Issues at NYFF61, with Jason Fox, Rosine Mbakam, Kleber Mendonça Filho, and Frederick Wiseman
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“Every film is a documentary of its own making,” Jacques Rivette famously said, pointing to the mix of fabrication and truth that lies at the heart of every movie. As images increasingly permeate our lives, these questions are ever more complex. What constitutes truth when the camera intervenes? How do we decide to accept—or question—what we see? F…
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From the Picket Line, with WGA East and SAG-AFTRA
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As this year’s historic strikes by the Writers Guild of America and the Screen Actors Guild–American Federation of Television and Radio Artists have shaken up the entertainment industry and film festivals, they’ve brought to the forefront a truth sometimes elided by cinema’s glamorous facade: that movies are made by workers. In a business increasin…
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The Fictions of Race, with RaMell Ross, Milisuthando Bongela, and Jason Fox
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“To be Black is the greatest fiction of my life. Yet I’m still bound to its myth.”The filmmaker and photographer RaMell Ross shares this excerpt from an artist statement in a conversation with Jason Fox, the editor of nonfiction journal World Records, in a new audio series called Trust Issues. Produced by World Records, the series explores how imag…
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Toronto 2023 #4, with Lovia Gyarkye and Alex Barasch
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We’re reporting this week from one of the major film events of the fall: the Toronto International Film Festival, which runs from September 7 to 17. Throughout this year’s festival, we’ll be on the ground, covering all the highlights (and lowlights) from the lineup with a rotating crew of critics and special guests.For our fourth (and final!) podca…
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