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Watering the Grassroots: Film Fest Knox

Democratic vistas: a new Knoxville, Tennessee–based festival champions regional American cinema
Read Mark Asch‘s Essay

The Film Comment Podcast: Holiday New Releases

Vengeance is mine: critics Beatrice Loayza and Robert Daniels join to discuss Blitz, Conclave, Gladiator II, and more
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Touch Visit: 2024 Sing Sing Film Festival

Access points: the first-ever documentary showcase held within a U.S. prison included a slate of competing films judged by an incarcerated jury
Read Pooja Rangan’s Essay

Interview: Robinson Devor on Suburban Fury

By Lucia Ahrensdorf
Assassin’s creed: the director of Zoo and Pow Wow discusses his latest, a portrait of President Gerald Ford’s would-be killer

The Film Comment Podcast: Julianne Moore on The Room Next Door

Artificial heart: the great American actress discusses her role in the latest from Pedro Almodóvar, which co-stars Tilda Swinton as a dying woman who makes a daring request of an old friend, played brilliantly by Moore

Control Issues

By Julia Gunnison
Closed city: Neo Sora‘s Happyend and Lilith Kraxner and Milena Czernovsky‘s bluish present visions of urban quiet

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The Film Comment Podcast: Julianne Moore on The Room Next Door

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Artificial heart: the great American actress discusses her role in the latest from Pedro Almodóvar, which co-stars Tilda Swinton as a dying woman who makes a daring request of an old friend, played brilliantly by Moore

Reviews

Sea of Love

By Aaron M. Kinzer
Stand by me: Daughters is a heartbreaking, years-in-the-making documentary exploring the complex relationship between incarcerated fathers and their daughters

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Print Out: A City’s History, Told by its Cinemas

By Nina Rocha
Long exposures: in the Brazilian city of Belo Horizonte, abandoned cinemas have become parking lots and gyms—but they also live on in the collective sensorial memory

Features

How to Do Things with Words

By Jawni Han
Translation games: Hong Sangsoo's A Traveler's Needs explores how communication across languages can be both obfuscating and revelatory

Reviews

Come to My Window

By Genevieve Yue
Smooth surfaces: despite its dazzling technical conceit, Robert Zemeckis‘s Here is conspicuously thin

Reviews

Sounds of Freedom

By J. Hoberman
The long march: Johan Grimonprez's Soundtrack to a Coup D'Etat is a grim, exciting history lesson that announces itself with percussive fanfare