This article appeared in the November 8, 2024 edition of The Film Comment Letter, our free weekly newsletter featuring ...

Scenes from the class struggle: a new repertory series at MoMA asks its viewers to connect Portugal’s political revolution to ...

Time and time again: recent works by Elisabeth Subrin and Zia Anger join a lineage of women’s films that invite us to witness ...

When the cast of Robert Zemeckis’s Here was announced two years ago, Gump-heads rejoiced. Three decades after Forrest Gump ...

Here at Film Comment, we live by Serge Daney’s motto: “Cinephilia is not only a particular relationship to cinema, it is a relationship to the world through cinema.” We love moving images because they ...

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One imagines James Baldwin would have had none of that. In his most sustained commentary on cinema, the 1976 book-length essay The Devil Finds Work, he gives voice to the suspicion and anger that many ...

An extension of Green’s interest in frustrated protagonists searching for meaning, The Son of Joseph centers upon Vincent (Victor Ezenfis), an angry and conflicted teenager who yearns to discover his ...

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