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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.
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 ...
Best Movies of 2004 | Film Comment's 2004 Critics' Poll
20 BEST FILMS OF 2004 (Released theatrically in the U.S.)1. Sideways Alexander Payne, U.S.. 2. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind Michel Gondry, U.S.. 3. Before Sunset Richard Linklater, U.S.. 4. Million Dollar Baby Clint Eastwood, U.S.. 5. Goodbye Dragon Inn Tsai Ming-liang, Taiwan. 6. Notre musique Jean-Luc Godard, France. 7.
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.
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 …
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Film of the Week: Green Book - Film Comment
Nov 23, 2018 · Green Book is a road trip into another era, in more ways than one.It’s a quietly mischievous comedy-drama about race, unimpeachably well-meaning in an old-fashioned way—but something of a benign dinosaur in the age of Get Out, BlacKkKlansman, and Sorry to Bother You.Directed by Peter Farrelly, half of the fraternal team behind such artfully lunkish ’90s farces as Dumb and Dumber, There ...
The Film Comment Podcast: Toronto 2024 #3
Sep 11, 2024 · This week, Film Comment is on the ground at the 2024 Toronto International Film Festival, which began on September 5 and runs through September 15. This year, as ever, the festival’s lineup is full of buzzy titles, including premieres of new films from directors like Luca Guadagnino, Pedro Almodóvar, Athina Rachel Tsangari, Brady Corbet, Dea ...
Head-to-Head - Film Comment
Apr 15, 2024 · This article appeared in the April 12, 2024 edition of The Film Comment Letter, our free weekly newsletter featuring original film criticism and writing. Sign up for the Letter here. Road House (Doug Liman, 2024) “Nobody ever wins a fight,” proclaimed Patrick Swayze’s NYU-schooled philosopher-turned-bouncer, Dalton, in Rowdy …