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Founded in 1962, Film Comment magazine features reviews and analysis of mainstream, art-house, and avant-garde filmmaking from around the world. [bridged from https://filmcomment.com/ on the web: https://fed.brid.gy/web/filmcomment.com ]

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Berlinale 2026: Statements of Purpose Lines drawn: How political must a festival be for it to be considered properly political?
02.03.2026 15:34 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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The Film Comment Podcast: Akinola Davies Jr. on My Father’s Shadow Family portrait: the director talks about his elliptical, atmospheric debut feature set in 1993 Nigeria
26.02.2026 16:53 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Interview: Scott MacDonald on Comprehending Cinema and More Critical cinema: the experimental film scholar talks about programming a series with his students, the films he can’t avoid showing first-year undergrads, and what it truly means to “comprehend” cinema
23.02.2026 20:54 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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IFFR 2026: Motion Capture Future picture: festival highlights like _The Misconceived_ , _Tycoon_ , and _Chronovisor_ suggested a new kind of visual storytelling defined by a fluid mix of mediums and methodologies
17.02.2026 18:09 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Withering Lows Window dressing: maybe, because it’s 2026, and we are all so very tired, we are getting the _Wuthering Heights_ we deserve—a limp one
17.02.2026 17:59 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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The Film Comment Podcast: Ashley Clark on The World of Black Film Reading list: the critic and curator joins to discuss his new book, a survey of significant films made by Black filmmakers or centering Black life
11.02.2026 22:41 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Sundance 2026: Culture/Industry Portrait galleries: festival highlights like _Once Upon a Time in Harlem_ , _I Want Your Sex_ , and _If I Go Will They Miss Me_ offered a balm for independent art
09.02.2026 20:57 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Sundance 2026: Last Dance Final call: many of the best films at the fest’s last edition in Park City affirmed its late founder Robert Redford’s belief in “the unexpected perspective”
09.02.2026 20:53 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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The Film Comment Podcast: Sundance 2026 #5 Take a load off: Bilge Ebiri, Tim Grierson, and Madeline Whittle close out the fest, discussing <em>The Weight</em>, <em>When a Witness Recants</em>, <em>Chasing Summer</em>, and more
31.01.2026 12:10 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 1
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The Film Comment Podcast: Sundance 2026 #4 Sentimental moods: critics Robert Daniels, Will Tavlin, Natalia Winkelman join to discuss <em>Once Upon a Time in Harlem</em>, <em>Closure</em>, <em>Union County</em>, and <em>zi</em>
27.01.2026 22:42 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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The Film Comment Podcast: Sundance 2026 #3 Readymades: Tim Grierson, Robert Daniels, and Monica Castillo join to discuss <em>The Gallerist</em>, <em>I Want Your Sex</em>, and <em>The Invite</em>
26.01.2026 23:03 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Street Level (In)visible boards: a history of the skate film
26.01.2026 21:36 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
The Film Comment Podcast: Sundance 2026 #1 Giddy up: Maddie Whittle, Robert Daniels, and Will Tavlin join to discuss early fest premieres _Buddy_ , _The Moment_ , and _Josephine_
26.01.2026 01:19 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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The Film Comment Podcast: Sundance 2026 #2 Mix it up: Madeline Whittle and Will Tavlin join to discuss _The History of Concrete_ , _Aanikoobijigan [ancestor/great-grandparent/great-grandchild]_ , and _Nuisance Bear_
26.01.2026 00:58 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
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The Film Comment Podcast: Sundance 2026 #1 Giddy up: Maddie Whittle, Robert Daniels, and Will Tavlin join to discuss early fest premieres <em>Buddy</em>, <em>The Moment</em>, and <em>Josephine</em>
24.01.2026 14:57 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Interview: Hlynur Pálmason on The Love That Remains Family rooms: the Icelandic auteur discusses his latest intimate epic, which follows a separated couple co-parenting their children while navigating life beyond marriage
20.01.2026 19:15 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Interview: Jim Jarmusch on Father Mother Sister Brother Family relations: the legendary American filmmaker talks about his latest, a funny, sad, and haunting portrait of parents and children
20.01.2026 18:47 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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The Film Comment Podcast: New Year, New Releases Serve and return: critics Mark Asch and Beatrice Loayza join to discuss _Marty Supreme_ , _Avatar: Fire and Ash_ , and _Ella McCay_
13.01.2026 21:57 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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One Last Job Checks and balances: creaky and cringe as it is, James L Brooks's _Ella McCay_ is distinguished by the familiar warmth and polished witticisms of one of our most experienced entertainers
12.01.2026 16:56 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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A Time of Mischief Out on a limb: Kleber Mendonça Filho has ingeniously programmed a mixture of horror, science fiction, paranoid thriller, crime procedural, and personal documentary that inform his latest, _The Secret Agent_
12.01.2026 16:53 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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The Best NYC Repertory Screenings of 2025 Past presents: highlights from a year of traversing the city’s ever-burgeoning repertory film landscape
17.12.2025 22:46 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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The Best Restorations of 2025 In with the old: the best restorations, preservations, reprints, and remasters of 2025
17.12.2025 22:34 👍 6 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
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The Best Shorts of 2025 The long and short of it: the strongest, strangest, and boldest shorter films of 2025
17.12.2025 22:33 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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The Best Performances of 2025 Faces: a confident unsentimentality unites the work of veteran actors Amy Madigan, David Strathairn, and Kathleen Chalfant
17.12.2025 22:32 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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The Best Scenes of 2025 Expanded time: exceptional scenes from _Happyend_ , _The Mastermind_ , and _The Secret Agent_ stir the viewer out of the solipsism of the classic movie plot
17.12.2025 22:29 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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The Film Comment Podcast: The Best Films of 2025 Drumroll, please: critics Bilge Ebiri and Amy Taubin join for a real-time countdown of the films topping our year-end critics’ poll
12.12.2025 14:43 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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A Man of the World It starts at home: a new DVD collection charts the artist Michael Smith’s enduring interest in the life and times of his hapless everyman alter-ego
01.12.2025 19:33 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Restoring Images: Tokyo International Film Festival 2025 Past imperfect: many of the highlights of the festival reflected on how we remember troubled pasts
01.12.2025 19:23 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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The Film Comment Podcast: Kleber Mendonça Filho on The Secret Agent Times of mischief: the Brazilian auteur joins to discuss his latest, an endlessly inventive excavation of the specifics of past and place
25.11.2025 20:26 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Book Review: Ross Lipman’s The Archival Impermanence Project Print tests: the renowned restorationist’s new collection provides a much-needed meta-analysis of the film-preservation discipline
24.11.2025 20:37 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0