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Hiding in Plain Sight
By
Mayukh Sen
June 21, 2021
Out of the past: Merle Oberon endures in public memory because of the secrets she had to hide, but her work deserves reassessment
Film Comment Recommends:
Slow Machine
By
Tyler Wilson
June 14, 2021
This mortal coil: the new microbudget “thriller” is a shape-shifting fever dream of a film
Seeing Double:
Bad Timing
&
Winter Light
By
Molly Haskell
June 14, 2021
Through a glass darkly: the critic finds strange exhilaration in a particularly daunting pair of movies
Beyond Representation: An Interview with Genevieve Yue
By
Mackenzie Lukenbill
June 14, 2021
Hidden pattern: Yue discusses her book
Girl Head: Feminism and Film Materiality
, which explores the material erasure of women in cinema
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
Review:
The Disciple
By
Phuong Le
June 7, 2021
Master and man: in Chaitanya Tamhane’s meditative drama, an aspiring musician finds himself at a crossroads between mediocrity and monastic commitment
Angel of History
By
Devika Girish
June 7, 2021
In the drink:
Undine
reenergizes the recursive motifs of Christian Petzold's oeuvre while also sharpening his longstanding interest in history and capitalism
Step Right Up!
By
Maitland McDonagh
June 1, 2021
George Romero’s empathetic "The Amusement Park" confronts the horrors of the world through the eyes of the elderly
The Past Is Another Country
By
Sukhdev Sandhu
June 1, 2021
The home and the world: Jia Zhangke's luminous
Swimming Out Till the Sea Turns Blue
looks back at China's rural past
Film Comment Recommends:
Four Roads
By
Courtney Duckworth
June 1, 2021
Distant constellations: Alice Rohrwacher's new pandemic short conjures intimacy in seclusion
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