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With Borrowed Eyes: Abbas Kiarostami - Film Comment
WEBThe director on his unique form of poetic cinema. By David Sterritt in the July-August 2000 Issue. Abbas Kiarostami deserves more credit than any other single director for fueling the recent rise of Iranian cinema, arguably the most dramatic film development of the past dozen years. The excitement started when his slyly reflexive Close-Up ...
All That Heaven Allows What is, or was, cinephilia? (Part Three)
WEBMar 16, 2012 · Read the first and second parts of this article.. Cinephilia today might mean one of two things: a response to scarcity or a response to abundance. On the one hand, it can be a way of loving a disappearing object—celluloid film (whether 16, 35, or 70mm) projected in a large dark theaters—and therefore takes the form of nostalgia for the conditions that produced the first great wave of ...
Trivial Top 20: Longest Movie Titles - Film Comment
WEB17. The Man Who Might Have Been: An Inquiry Into the Life and Death of Herbert Norman John Kramer, 1998. 18. The Incredibly Strange Creatures Who Stopped Living and Became Mixed-Up Zombies Ray Dennis Steckler, 1964. 19. Long Strange Trip, or The Writer, the Naked Girl, and the Guy with a Hole in His Head Peter Wick, 1999.
Film of the Week: On the Beach at Night Alone - Film Comment
WEBNov 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.
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 ...
Let's Make a Deal: Faust on Film - Film Comment
WEBNov 14, 2013 · Watch on. Ray Milland gives his Devil figure an air of suave, slicked-back menace in John Farrow’s noir-to-the-bone morality tale about an honest district attorney seduced by the prospect of a governorship. Like The Devil and Daniel Webster, Alias Nick Beal re-casts the Faust legend as a quintessentially American parable—but whereas the ...
Cahiers Back in the Day - Film Comment
WEBBy David Kehr in the September-October 2001 Issue. The first issue of Cahiers du Cinéma was dated April 1951 and featured on its cover a black-and-white still of Gloria Swanson, bathed in the beam of an unseen movie projector, from Billy Wilder’s Sunset Boulevard. The choice seems ironic now, given that neither Wilder nor the silent cinema as embodied by Swanson remained a Cahiers favorite ...
Interview: James Benning on The United States of America - Film …
WEBMar 28, 2022 · This article appeared in the March 24, 2022 edition of The Film Comment Letter, our free weekly newsletter featuring original film criticism and writing. Sign up for the Letter here. The United States of America (James Benning, 2022). In 1975, James Benning and Bette Gordon, two graduate students at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, took a pair of road trips to New York and Los Angeles.
Best Movies of 2004 | Film Comment's 2004 Critics' Poll
WEB20 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.