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Neo Sora‘s Happyend and Lilith Kraxner and Milena Czernovsky‘s bluish present visions of urban quiet ...

This article appeared in the November 27, 2024 edition of The Film Comment Letter, our free weekly newsletter featuring ...

My neighbor in Carroll Gardens, Brooklyn installs an elaborate Halloween display every October, with severed heads, killer clowns, vampire bats, and even a freshly dug grave. The centerpiece of these ...

There is something oddly indeterminate about the Korean title of Hong Sangsoo’s 31st feature, whose English translation is A Traveler’s Needs. While “여행자의 필요” is a grammatically correct phrase, it is ...

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 ...

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 ...

I had the last of my six colposcopy surgeries—a procedure that cuts out cancerous cells from a cervix—in December 2020. To commemorate the one-year anniversary in 2021, I did my makeup, put on a ...

Early in Rite of Spring (1962), Manoel de Oliveira frames a procession of peasants dressed as Roman soldiers through the windshield of a Chevrolet, the rolling hills of Portugal’s rural Trás-os-Montes ...

An example: a brilliant Brazilian director and friend, João Jardim, made a beautiful documentary in 2001 called Window of the Soul that he brought to me for the mix. The first scene is a close-up of a ...