Founded in 1962, Film Comment has been the home of independent film journalism for over 50 years, publishing in-depth interviews, critical analysis, and feature coverage of mainstream, art-house, and avant-garde filmmaking from around the world. The Film Comment Podcast, hosted by editors Devika Girish and Clinton Krute, is a weekly space for critical conversation about film, with a look at topical issues, new releases, and the big picture. Film Comment is a nonprofit publication that relies ...
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Welcome to Doors & Corners, a sci-fi and fantasy film commentary podcast. Each week we watch a film together and discuss our favorite parts of it along with our not so favorite parts. Join us as we journey together through the deep and rich world of science fiction and fantasy filmmaking!
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Various films being analyzed, criticized, and idolized by our panel while sharing a few drinks.
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Alternative Commentaries For Movies That Suck
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The Best Films of 2024, with Molly Haskell and Michael Koresky
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On December 12, 2024, as part our annual winter list extravaganza, Film Comment Editors Clinton Krute and Devika Girish led a panel of special guests—Molly Haskell (critic, author), and Michael Koresky (critic, founding editor of Reverse Shot)—for a live real-time countdown of the films topping our year-end critics’ poll. The evening featured a liv…
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The week on Doors & Corners we watch Back to the Future (1985) with Brian, Zach and special guest Dan.Av Doors & Corners
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This week on Doors & Corners we watch Spawn (1997) with Brian, Zach & Pat.Av Doors & Corners
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Holiday New Releases, with Robert Daniels and Beatrice Loayza
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Sleepily emerging from the turkey-induced haze of Thanksgiving break and looking ahead to the barrage of Best of 2024 lists, Film Comment Editors Devika Girish and Clinton Krute invited critics Robert Daniels and Beatrice Loayza to discuss some of the most highly-anticipated Hollywood blockbusters (and would-be blockbusters) of this year’s holiday …
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This week on Doors & Corners we watch Minority Report (2002) with Brian, Zach & Pat.Av Doors & Corners
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The week on Doors & Corners we watch Conan the Barbarian (2011) with Brian & Zach.Av Doors & Corners
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Julianne Moore on The Room Next Door
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During the 2024 New York Film Festival, Film Comment’s Devika Girish had the chance to chat with Julianne Moore, one of the great American actresses of the last three decades and more. She was at the festival for the premiere of The Room Next Door, the first English-language feature film by Pedro Almodóvar, which stars Moore as a writer in New York…
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This week on Doors & Corners we watch Conan the Barbarian (1982) with Brian & Zach.Av Doors & Corners
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Payal Kapadia and Miguel Gomes
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When Payal Kapadia won a historic Grand Prix at this year’s Cannes Film Festival for her second feature, All We Imagine as Light (the first Indian film to play in competition at Cannes in 30 years), she paid homage to another Cannes prizewinner whose work has deeply influenced her: Miguel Gomes, whose Grand Tour won the award for Best Director. The…
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Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country
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This week on Doors & Corners we watch Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country (1991) with Brian, Zach & Pat.Av Doors & Corners
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The Films of Robert Kramer, with Erika Balsom and Benjamin Crais
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The films of Robert Kramer blend fiction and documentary modes to engage with, and expand on, traditions of militant political cinema and subjective essay filmmaking. A founding member of the New Left activist film collective Newsreel in 1967, Kramer devoted himself to the group’s radical ethos, but he also began to make his own hermetic and probin…
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Star Trek V: The Final Frontier
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This week on Doors & Corners we watch Star Trek V: The Final Frontier (1989) with Brian, Zach & Pat.Av Doors & Corners
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This week on Doors & Corners we watch Aliens (1986) with Brian & Zach.Av Doors & Corners
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This week on Doors & Corners we watch Alien (1979) with Brian & Zach.Av Doors & Corners
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NYFF62 Festival Report, with Bilge Ebiri and Lovia Gyarkye
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As the 62nd New York Film Festival drew to a close last weekend, it was once again time for Film Comment’s Festival Report, our annual live overview of the NYFF that was. This year, the end-of-fest ritual took place in collaboration with the New York Film Critics Circle, which will celebrate its 90th anniversary in 2025. Devika and Clint were joine…
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This week on Doors & Corners we watch The Rocketeer (1991) with Brian, Zach & Pat.Av Doors & Corners
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Collective Protagonists, with Brett Story, Stephen Maing, John Hanson, and Rob Nilsson
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Two films in this year’s New York Film Festival lineup grapple beautifully with the challenge of narrating stories of collective movements without giving in to the allure of the heroic individual protagonist. John Hanson and Rob Nilsson’s Revivals selection Northern Lights (1978) stages the founding of the Nonpartisan League in North Dakota—formed …
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This week on Doors & Corners we watch Joker (2019) with Brian & Zach.Av Doors & Corners
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This week on Doors & Corners we watch Superman II (1980) with Brian & Zach.Av Doors & Corners
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The Films of Christopher Harris
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The films of Christopher Harris are haunting and cerebral in equal measure—blending the sensorial power of analog avant-garde cinema with a thoroughly researched and deeply felt engagement with African-American history. Starting in 2001 with the 16mm feature still/here, which was also his MFA thesis at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Ha…
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The week on Doors & Corners we watch Superman: The Movie (1978) with Brian & Zach.Av Doors & Corners
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Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home
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The week on Doors & Corners we watch Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home (1986) with Brian, Zach & Pat.Av Doors & Corners
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Toronto 2024 #4, with David Schwartz, Saffron Maeve, and Robert Daniels
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This week, Film Comment is on the ground at the 2024 Toronto International Film Festival, which began on September 5 and runs through September 15. This year, as ever, the festival’s lineup is full of buzzy titles, including new films from directors like Luca Guadagnino, Pedro Almodóvar, Athina Rachel Tsangari, Brady Corbet, Dea Kulumbegashvili, an…
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Toronto 2024 #3, with Adam Nayman and Beatrice Loayza
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This week, Film Comment is on the ground at the 2024 Toronto International Film Festival, which began on September 5 and runs through September 15. This year, as ever, the festival’s lineup is full of buzzy titles, including premieres of new films from directors like Luca Guadagnino, Pedro Almodóvar, Athina Rachel Tsangari, Brady Corbet, Dea Kulumb…
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Toronto 2024 #2, with Madeline Whittle and Mark Asch
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This week, Film Comment is on the ground at the 2024 Toronto International Film Festival, which began on September 5 and runs through September 15. This year, as ever, the festival’s lineup is full of buzzy titles, including premieres of new films from directors like Luca Guadagnino, Pedro Almodóvar, Athina Rachel Tsangari, Brady Corbet, Dea Kulumb…
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Toronto 2024 #1, with Mark Asch and David Schwartz
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This week, Film Comment is on the ground at the 2024 Toronto International Film Festival, which began on September 5 and runs through September 15. This year, as ever, the festival’s lineup is full of buzzy titles, including premieres of new films from directors like Luca Guadagnino, Pedro Almodóvar, Athina Rachel Tsangari, Brady Corbet, Dea Kulumb…
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The Rebel's Cinema—Frantz Fanon on Screen #4, with Madeleine Hunt-Ehrlich
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Last April, Film Comment invited writer Adam Shatz on the Podcast to talk about The Rebel’s Clinic: The Revolutionary Lives of Frantz Fanon, his new biography of the Martinican writer, psychiatrist, and anti-colonial revolutionary. The Podcast explored Fanon’s lasting impression on the world of cinema since his untimely death in 1961—and it became …
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The Rebel's Cinema—Frantz Fanon on Screen #3, with Cheryl Rivera and Clifford Thompson
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Last April, Film Comment invited writer Adam Shatz on the Podcast to talk about The Rebel’s Clinic: The Revolutionary Lives of Frantz Fanon, his new biography of the Martinican writer, psychiatrist, and anti-colonial revolutionary. The Podcast explored Fanon’s lasting impression on the world of cinema since his untimely death in 1961—and it became …
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The Day the Earth Stood Still (2008)
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This week on Doors & Corners we watch The Day the Earth Stood Still (2008) with Brian & Zach.Av Doors & Corners
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The Rebel's Cinema—Frantz Fanon on Screen #2, with Kazembe Balagun and Brent Hayes Edwards
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Last April, Film Comment invited writer Adam Shatz on the Podcast to talk about The Rebel’s Clinic: The Revolutionary Lives of Frantz Fanon, his new biography of the Martinican writer, psychiatrist, and anti-colonial revolutionary. The Podcast explored Fanon’s lasting impression on the world of cinema since his untimely death in 1961—and it became …
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The Rebel's Cinema—Frantz Fanon on Screen #1, with Blair McClendon and Adam Shatz
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Last April, Film Comment invited writer Adam Shatz on the Podcast to talk about The Rebel’s Clinic: The Revolutionary Lives of Frantz Fanon, his new biography of the Martinican writer, psychiatrist, and anti-colonial revolutionary. The Podcast explored Fanon’s lasting impression on the world of cinema since his untimely death in 1961—and it became …
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The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951)
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This week on Doors & Corners we watch The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951) with Brian & Zach.Av Doors & Corners
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Digital Migrations, with Suneil Sanzgiri and Greg de Cuir Jr.
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As part of this year's Locarno Film Festival, scholars at the Università della Svizzera italiana organized a conference called Cinema Audiovisual Futures, with a series of panels and workshops exploring cinema's importance in constructing a new and alternative futures. As part of the conference, Film Comment editor Devika Girish moderated a panel w…
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Locarno 2024, with Inney Prakash and Cici Peng
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The Locarno Film Festival takes place every August in the Swiss town of Locarno, at the base of the Alps, with a robust mix of discovery titles, repertory selections, and premieres of films by major auteurs. Film Comment was on the ground this year, combing through the lineup for highlights, and this episode—featuring critics and curators Inney Pra…
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Star Trek III: The Search for Spock
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The week on Doors & Corners we watch Star Trek III: The Search for Spock (1984) with Brian, Zach & Pat.Av Doors & Corners
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Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan
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This week on Doors & Corners we watch Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (1982) with Brian, Zach & Pat.Av Doors & Corners
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Summer Rep Report #3, with Rockaway Film Festival's Sam Fleischner and Courtney Muller
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For the third and final installment of our Summer Rep Report series, Sam Fleischner and Courtney Muller, the founding programmers of the Rockaway Film Festival, join Film Comment editor Devika Girish to discuss this year’s edition, which runs from August 17 to 25. Launched in 2018 in the Queens, New York oceanside neighborhood, the festival draws u…
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Summer Rep Report #2, with Jessica Green
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For Part 2 of our Summer Rep Report, film programmer Jessica Green joins to discuss Passing You By: Impostorism on Film, a new series she’s programmed titled at the Brooklyn Academy of Music. The series opens today and runs through August 15 and focuses on movies that all explore the act of passing—be it for another race, gender, class, or national…
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This week on Doors & Corners we watch Titan A.E. (2000) with Brian & Zach.Av Doors & Corners
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Summer Rep Report #1, with Jed Rapfogel of Anthology Film Archives
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Early August is usually something of a lull in the film calendar, but this year, at least in New York City, it’s proved to be a goldmine—particularly for repertory programming. We had planned to record a single episode of our Rep Report series this week, but there was so much good stuff out there that we ended up recording three different conversat…
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The week on Doors & Corners we watch The Iron Giant (1999) with Brian & Zach.Av Doors & Corners
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Jonathan Rosenbaum on his new book, In Dreams Begin Responsibilities
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The guest on this week’s episode will need little introduction to anyone who reads film criticism or follows film culture. Jonathan Rosenbaum, one of the most prolific and respected critics of the last half-century, began his career at publications like Film Comment and Sight and Sound in the ’70s, and later became known for his writing at The Chic…
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The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen
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The week on Doors & Corners we watch The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (2003) with Brian & Zach.Av Doors & Corners
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This week on Doors & Corners we watch Dune Part 2 (2024) with Brian, Zach & Patrick.Av Doors & Corners
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Making Movies in Prison, with Rahsaan Thomas and Thanh Tran
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In April, Film Comment published an article by Phillip Vance Smith II, titled “Streaming Behind Bars.” Phillip is an incarcerated writer, and his piece delves into the ways in which people in prison watch movies—the technology they’re able to use, the programming they can access, and the exorbitant costs involved. That piece was facilitated by Empo…
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This week on Doors & Corners we watch Warcraft (2016) with Brian & Zach.Av Doors & Corners
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Children’s Cinema, with Isabel Stevens and Rai and Genevieve Yue and Harriet
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In a recent essay, critic Isabel Stevens writes: “There is much discussion of childishness—popular cinema is often described as ‘infantilized’—but how often do we consider what children want and need from films, and what they are watching and where (outside the usual narrow, artificial controversies about the dangers film poses to their innocent mi…
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Star Trek: The Motion Picture
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This week on Doors & Corners we watch Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979) with Brian, Zach & Pat.Av Doors & Corners
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The Flaherty Film Seminar is one of the nonfiction film world’s most interesting events. Founded by Frances Flaherty in 1955 in honor of her late husband, Robert—the documentarian best known for Nanook of the North (1922)—the Seminar brings together scholars, artists, programmers, critics, and more to watch and intimately discuss a selection of wor…
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This week on Doors & Corners we watch Battle: Los Angeles (2011) with Brian & ZachAv Doors & Corners
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