Review: Nuremberg - Film Comment
WEBOne of the film’s surprises might be the time devoted to demonstrating the militarism and duplicity of the Third Reich. Nuremberg builds a litany of reneged promises, recounting acts of aggression together with Hitler’s specific assurances to the contrary, as if to counter any possible national nostalgia.
Review: The Tempest - Film Comment
WEBHounsou plays Caliban with roaring bluster, furious at Miranda’s romantic involvement with Prince Ferdinand. The scenes involving this would-be usurping trio are hilarious and maintain a campy, frenetic energy that moves the film forward, complicated by the sinister undercurrent of colonialism that is subtly allowed to bubble up from time to ...
Review: I, Daniel Blake - Film Comment
WEBIt makes sense that I, Daniel Blake would find an audience in the year of Brexit. Though swinging way left, Ken Loach’s broadside against the British state and its bureaucratic dehumanization of those in need is brute, direct, and singleminded, easily hitting a populist nerve. A frustrating watch on levels intended and not, Loach’s film ...
Queer & Now & Then: 1960 - Film Comment
WEBSep 12, 2018 · Queer & Now & Then: 1960. Flaunting a beauty so cruel it became the stuff of myth, Alain Delon first terrified viewers with his perfection in 1960’s Purple Noon (Plein soleil). He had appeared in smaller roles for a few years before that, such as Pierre Gaspard-Huit’s satisfactory piece of period eye candy, Christine (1958), hovering around ...
The Film Comment Podcast: David Bordwell’s Reinventing Hollywood
WEBNov 14, 2017 · This week, The Film Comment Podcast welcomes back seminal critic David Bordwell to discuss his new book Reinventing Hollywood: How 1940s Filmmakers Changed Movie Storytelling.Instead of approaching the decade through the lens of one genre or auteur, Bordwell thinks about the stylistic hallmarks that distinguished the decade—for example, screenwriting conventions like flashbacks—and how ...
Deep Focus: Hunt for the Wilderpeople - Film Comment
WEBJun 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 ...
Archive - Film Comment
WEBArchive. Founded in 1962 and originally released as a quarterly, Film Comment features reviews and analysis of mainstream, art-house, and avant-garde filmmaking from around the world. 40th anniversary of the Steadicam, Molly Haskell on Paul Verhoeven’s , LGBT characters in American cinema, the hidden art of VFX, Kent Jones on the ...
Online Exclusive: An Annotated* Tsui Hark Interview (Part II, aka ...
WEB1. Eighties New Wave: the late Seventies and early Eighties saw a huge influx of talent into Hong Kong from filmmakers who, for the most part, had studied overseas, and then returned to Hong Kong where they all wound up working for Selina Chow at TVB, the television giant, before starting to make socially conscious movies.Among the names that Selina Chow hired were Tsui Hark, Ringo Lam, Ann ...
Review: Fish Tank - Film Comment
WEBReview: Fish Tank. At first glance, the modest council-estate apartment where much of Andrea Arnold’s Fish Tank unfolds seems lovely—filled with sunshine, soft colors, and decorative flourishes like seashell wind chimes and a photomural of a tropical beach. Music is often playing, and an affectionate dog is clearly a cherished pet.
Interview: Adèle Haenel - Film Comment
WEBMay 24, 2019 · Portrait of a Lady on Fire (Céline Sciamma, 2019). Adèle Haenel should need no introduction, but this year, Cannes provided three separate ones for any who missed her in BPM, The Unknown Girl, Water Lilies, or Love at First Fight (aka Les Combattants), to name just a few of her higher-profile, high-intensity roles.My introduction to her talents came in 2014, also at Cannes, through her ...
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