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Film Comment Recommends

Film Comment Recommends: Întregalde

By Chris Shields
March 21, 2022
Country living: Radu Muntean’s searching gaze digs beneath the surface of an adventure gone wrong to unearth an incisive parable about charity and power

Film Comment Recommends: Rock Bottom Riser

By Abby Sun
March 7, 2022
Hot rocks: Fern Silva’s multifaceted, immersive essay film takes the legacy of colonialism in Hawai’i as a jumping-off point

Film Comment Recommends: Songwriter

By Clinton Krute
February 14, 2022
Dang me: Alan Rudolph’s 1984 country-music comedy is a rough-and-rowdy good time, punctuated by a typically unhinged performance from Rip Torn

Film Comment Recommends: Compartment No. 6

By Edo Choi
January 24, 2022
Train in vain: Juho Kuosmanen gentle romantic drama is a film of sweet, uncomplicated loveliness—an increasingly undervalued cinematic tonality

Film Comment Recommends: Belle

By Daniel Schindel
January 18, 2022
Tale as old as time: in Mamoru Hosoda's virtual-age spin on The Beauty and the Beast, two teenagers seek connection in the vast void of the internet

An Image for 2022: Yoko Ono in Get Back

By Clinton Krute
January 10, 2022
Approximately infinite universe: Yoko's spectral presence in Peter Jackson's Beatles doc is a reminder of the of the persistence and influence of the avant-garde

An Image for 2022: The Inheritance

By Devika Girish
January 10, 2022
Glorious muck: Ephraim Asili’s film foregrounds the material and interpersonal imperatives that intoxicating visions of communal life often elide

Film Comment Recommends: Flashpoint

By Clinton Krute
November 29, 2021
Running on empty: with an unbelievable cast and a healthy dose of paranoid politics, it’s a shame that this 1984 action flick isn’t better known

Film Comment Recommends: The Big City

By Devika Girish
November 29, 2021
Home sweet home: In Satyajit Ray’s domestic drama, the intimacies of family are political, and love is a kind of solidarity

Film Comment Recommends: Labyrinth of Cinema

By Leonardo Goi
November 8, 2021
Too close to the sun: Nobuhiko Obayashi’s final film is a dazzling three-hour epic bristling with political and affective gestures