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By Cici Peng. Calling up the past: Madeleine Hunt-Ehrlich's The Ballad of Suzanne Césaire and Mati Diop's Dahomey both probe the tensions of transmitting memory. Founded in 1962, Film Comment magazine features reviews and analysis of mainstream, art-house, and avant-garde filmmaking from around the world.
Deep Focus: Hunt for the Wilderpeople - Film Comment
Jun 23, 2016 · Familiarity breeds affection between an out-of-control 13-year-old Maori boy and a crusty old white bush hand—and between the movie and the audience—in Taika Waititi’s Hunt for the Wilderpeople, a rambunctious, beguiling comedy adventure about fugitives on the run in the New Zealand wilderness.Julian Dennison as Ricky Baker, the roly-poly problem child from foster care, and Sam Neill as ...
Deep Focus: Come and See - Film Comment
Feb 28, 2020 · Come and See (Elem Klimov, 1985). The restoration of Come and See (1985), Elem Klimov’s unblinking depiction of Nazi armies wreaking carnage on Soviet Belorussia in 1943, enables us to view this disturbing, mesmerizing epic with fresh eyes as it turns Klimov’s lens into a burning glass. Originally called Kill Hitler, this film ranks with Kon Ichikawa’s Fires on …
Deep Focus: Lion - Film Comment
Dec 1, 2016 · Deep Focus: Lion. By Michael Sragow on December 1, 2016. Lion tells the harrowing fact-based story of a 5-year-old boy from an impoverished hamlet in central India who gets separated from his older brother after a train ride to a nearby city and winds up at the chaotic Howrah Station in Kolkata (the former Calcutta), roughly 1600 kilometers ...
Review: Kung Fu Hustle - Film Comment
With Kung Fu Hustle the myth of Stephen Chow achieves critical mass—not just for the enduring cult he has created, the phenomenal box office his work generates, or even the collective pleasure his local audience experiences whenever he releases a film. Such marvels are by now routine. Opening at a time when Hong Kong was mired in an economic and political funk ominously symbolized by the ...
The Amélie Effect - Film Comment
The Amélie Effect. The. Amélie. Effect. Right from the start Le Fabuleux destin d’Amélie Poulain, or Amélie as it's now called in the U.S., was a runaway hit in France—the film has managed to sell seven and a half million tickets, which translates into roughly $40 million at the box office, a sum rarely achieved by French films at home.
Review: The King's Speech - Film Comment
Review: The King's Speech. By Scott Foundas in the November-December 2010 Issue. “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 ...
Deep Focus: The Imitation Game - Film Comment
Nov 26, 2014 · The Imitation Game is a tremendously engaging work of historical fiction about Alan Turing, the British mathematical genius who was key to cracking the military codes of the Nazis’ “unbreakable” Enigma machine.Unlike self-consciously unconventional biopics, The Imitation Game melds fact and invention with lucidity and sweep.The movie time-jumps among three periods in Turing’s life: his ...
50 Best Movies of 2013 | Film Comment's 2013 Critics' Poll
Dec 16, 2013 · 33. Room 237 Rodney Ascher, U.S. 34. Faust Aleksandr Sokurov, Russia. 35. Let the Fire Burn Jason Osder, U.S. 36. Le Pont du Nord Jacques Rivette, France. 37. The Wolf of Wall Street Martin Scorsese, U.S. 38. You Ain’t Seen Nothin’ Yet Alain Resnais, France/Germany
Podcast Archives - Film Comment
The Film Comment Podcast: Toronto 2024 #4. By Film Comment. September 12, 2024. Bells ring: for our final Podcast from TIFF 2024, David Schwartz, Saffron Maeve, and Robert Daniels join to discuss shorts in the Wavelenghts program, as well as features from Muhammed Hamdy, Wang Bing, and Luca Guadagnino.