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Clinton Krute
Home Movies: Experimental Sound Studios’ Quarantine Concerts
By
Clinton Krute
May 8, 2020
Streaming performances leverage laptop-lensed shot to create a sense of shared space
Playlist: Bacurau
By
Clinton Krute
March 10, 2020
Spark a fire: listen to our new mix inspired by the Brazilian film’s radical approach to genre
The Film Comment Podcast: Kelly Reichardt’s First Cow
By
Clinton Krute
March 6, 2020
Best buds: Phoebe Chen and Clinton Krute join to discuss Reichardt’s deceptively modest epic of the American frontier
Coin of the Realm
By
Clinton Krute
March 2, 2020
In Kelly Reichardt’s
First Cow
, friendship meets commerce in a poignant portrait of two outsiders on the newly settled American frontier
Homegrown
By
Clinton Krute
November 21, 2019
Folkstreams is gold mine of music documentaries, ethnographic films, and educational movies with little-to-no commercial appeal
Short Takes: A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood
By
Clinton Krute
November 6, 2019
By blending the very serious with the childlike, Heller’s film locates real feeling in what could easily have been a run-of-the-mill tearjerker
Subcontinental Divide: Ritwik Ghatak
By
Jacob Levich
November 5, 2019
Revisit this 1988 essay on the undiscovered art of Indian cinema’s maverick, whose films are currently screening at Film at Lincoln Center
Playlist: NYFF57 Contest
By
Clinton Krute
October 3, 2019
In the groove: this year’s selection is also notable for its wealth of music, with films from Scorsese to Sciamma employing pop songs as narrative fulcrums
Elia Kazan’s America
By
Estelle Changas
October 1, 2019
In this 1972 essay, Changas explores the director’s body of work and commercial decline.
America America
screens at the NYFF on October 2
Playlist: Punks, Poets & Valley Girls
By
Clinton Krute
August 13, 2019
Pretty vacant: a series at BAM yields a varied mix of post-punk, minimalism, and smooth pop
Higher Learning: Chromatic Modernity
By
Sarah Street and Joshua Yumibe
August 2, 2019
Technicolor dreams: our modern sense of color as a standardized commodity is intertwined with the history of cinema
Playlist: Les Blank’s Chulas Fronteras and Del Mero Corazon
By
Clinton Krute
June 27, 2019
Border crossing: Les Blank’s joyous celebrations of Tejano music and culture return to the screen
Playlist: Zerzura
By
Clinton Krute
June 5, 2019
Tower of song: the Niger-set ”acid western” features a soundtrack that weds the ancient and the modern
Playlist: Ennio Morricone
By
Clinton Krute
April 15, 2019
Sensing a theme: listen to two curated mixes drawn from the composer's expansive body of work
Playlist: The Films of William Ferris
By
Clinton Krute
March 28, 2019
Blues connotations: the music of the rural South in the rough-hewn documentaries of William Ferris
Playlist: Babylon
By
Clinton Krute
March 7, 2019
Chant down Babylon kingdom: a heady dub-heavy mix inspired by Franco Rosso's newly restored 1980 film