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Clinton Krute

Film Comment Recommends: This Is Not My Music

By Clinton Krute
June 7, 2021
Pocket symphony: a 1978 documentary about Don Cherry captures the working life of an artist who never stopped moving

Playlist: Trances

By Clinton Krute
May 17, 2021
Altered states: listen to our new playlist inspired by Ahmed El Maanouni's rapturous Moroccan concert doc

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