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This article appeared in the November 27, 2024 edition of The Film Comment Letter, our free weekly newsletter featuring ...

Neo Sora‘s Happyend and Lilith Kraxner and Milena Czernovsky‘s bluish present visions of urban quiet ...

There is something oddly indeterminate about the Korean title of Hong Sangsoo’s 31st feature, whose English translation is A Traveler’s Needs. While “여행자의 필요” is a grammatically correct phrase, it is ...

This article appeared in the November 8, 2024 edition of The Film Comment Letter, our free weekly newsletter featuring original film criticism and writing. Sign up for the Letter here. Guns (Robert ...

As told to Manu Yáñez Murillo. This is an extended version of an article that appears the May-June issue of Film Comment. I first knew about Raúl Ruiz through my father, Luis Alarcón, who was a ...

My neighbor in Carroll Gardens, Brooklyn installs an elaborate Halloween display every October, with severed heads, killer clowns, vampire bats, and even a freshly dug grave. The centerpiece of these ...

I had the last of my six colposcopy surgeries—a procedure that cuts out cancerous cells from a cervix—in December 2020. To commemorate the one-year anniversary in 2021, I did my makeup, put on a ...

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So Jean-Marie Straub characterized Not Reconciled (65), his and Danièle Huillet’s first feature, and that applies to all their films. An oratorio sets a story to music, with orchestra, choir, singers ...