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Review: The King's Speech - Film Comment
Review: The King's Speech. “In the past, all a king had to do was look good in uniform,” observes King George V (Michael Gambon)—the first British monarch to address his subjects via radio—early on in Tom Hooper’s splendid period drama The King’s Speech. “Now we must invade people’s homes and ingratiate ourselves,” he continues.
Game Changers: The Close-Up - Film Comment
The Passion of Joan of Arc. The close-up can have an additional meaning separate from what the individual shot shows. The film that redefined the close-up is Dreyer’s The Passion of Joan of Arc (28). The master of the close-up in our time, or my time at least, is Sergio Leone—witness the famous opening to Once Upon a Time in the West (68), in …
Interview: Alain Guiraudie on Misericordia
Sep 16, 2024 · This article appeared in the September 13, 2024 edition of The Film Comment Letter, our free weekly newsletter featuring original film criticism and writing. Sign up for the Letter here. Misericordia (Alain Guiraudie, 2024). Call it Stranger in the Village.After being away for many years, Jérémie (Félix Kysyl) returns to the village where he grew up, in southwestern France, on the occasion ...
Deep Focus: The Strange Ones - Film Comment
Jan 4, 2018 · In the incident common to both stories, a barely adolescent boy and an alternately gruff and solicitous man, probably in his twenties, leave their broken-down car by the side of a rural road and stumble on a lonely motel. The lad strips off his shirt and jumps in the pool, while his grown companion tells the motel’s female manager that they ...
A Key for Every Lock - filmcomment.com
Sep 9, 2024 · This article appeared in the September 6, 2024 edition of The Film Comment Letter, our free weekly newsletter featuring original film criticism and writing. Sign up for the Letter here. This piece is the first in a new Film Comment series called Light Work, which features articles and interviews about the intersections of labor and film culture and the stories of cinema workers around the world.
Deep Focus: Tampopo - Film Comment
Oct 20, 2016 · Deep Focus: Tampopo. A gleefully sensual and inventive comedy, Tampopo was an art-house smash in 1987. Director Juzo Itami drew on American noirs and gangster films and Westerns and probably comic books, too, to come up with a quintessentially Japanese lark that blissed out audiences around the world. More than wacky and funny, it’s flavorful.
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Since 1962, Film Comment has been the home of independent film journalism, publishing in-depth interviews, critical analysis, and feature coverage of mainstream, art-house, and avant-garde filmmaking from around the world. Published by Film at Lincoln Center, Film Comment is a nonprofit publication that relies on the support of readers.
Film of the Week: On the Beach at Night Alone - Film Comment
Nov 17, 2017 · Film of the Week: On the Beach at Night Alone. By Jonathan Romney on November 17, 2017. In the final scene of Hong Sangsoo’s On the Beach at Night Alone, a woman gets confrontational with her older ex-lover, a film director. “Are you tormented?” she shrieks at him, shortly after he’s burst into tears.
Best Films of 2023 - Film Comment
In the hands of a different director, Showing Up might have played like yet another Sundance-style indie: a film packed with quirky characters (including an injured pigeon) and snappy, self-lacerating one-liners about the bougie artists of Portland, Oregon. But, as expected, Kelly Reichardt finds a way to complicate and enrich this premise, crafting …