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 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 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.Por Doors & Corners
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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.Por Doors & Corners
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This week on Doors & Corners we watch Aliens (1986) with Brian & Zach.Por Doors & Corners
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This week on Doors & Corners we watch Alien (1979) with Brian & Zach.Por 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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The Rocketeer
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This week on Doors & Corners we watch The Rocketeer (1991) with Brian, Zach & Pat.Por 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.Por Doors & Corners
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Superman II
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This week on Doors & Corners we watch Superman II (1980) with Brian & Zach.Por 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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Superman: The Movie
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The week on Doors & Corners we watch Superman: The Movie (1978) with Brian & Zach.Por 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.Por Doors & Corners
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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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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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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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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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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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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.Por Doors & Corners
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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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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.Por Doors & Corners
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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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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.Por 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.Por Doors & Corners
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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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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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Titan A.E.
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This week on Doors & Corners we watch Titan A.E. (2000) with Brian & Zach.Por Doors & Corners
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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 Iron Giant
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The week on Doors & Corners we watch The Iron Giant (1999) with Brian & Zach.Por Doors & Corners
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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.Por Doors & Corners
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Dune Part 2
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This week on Doors & Corners we watch Dune Part 2 (2024) with Brian, Zach & Patrick.Por Doors & Corners
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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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Warcraft
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This week on Doors & Corners we watch Warcraft (2016) with Brian & Zach.Por 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.Por Doors & Corners
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Flaherty Film Seminar 2024
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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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Battle: Los Angeles
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This week on Doors & Corners we watch Battle: Los Angeles (2011) with Brian & ZachPor Doors & Corners
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In April 2021, Film Comment published a Trans Cinema Roundtable Podcast, in which two trans film critics and two trans filmmakers answered questions submitted by listeners on what constitutes a cinema of transness. Now, two of those panelists—Caden Mark Gardner and Willow Catelyn Maclay—are about to publish a new book on that very subject. Corpses,…
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Mad Max: Fury Road
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This week on Doors & Corners we watch Mad Max: Fury Road (2015) with Brian & ZachPor Doors & Corners
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Critics have been buzzing about Richard Linklater’s Hit Man since it premiered at festivals last year. A charming mix of screwball and noir, the film takes inspiration from the real-life story of Gary Johnson, a schoolteacher who for years moonlighted as a pretend hit man in Houston, helping local police entrap folks who would reach out to him to o…
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The Hunt for Red October
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Join us for a special edition episode this Father's Day as we watch one of the greats! The Hunt for Red October (1990) with Brian & ZachPor Doors & Corners
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Stargate
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This week on Doors & Corners we watch Stargate (1994) with Brian & ZachPor Doors & Corners
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War for the Planet of the Apes
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This week on Doors & Corners we watch War for the Planet of the Apes (2017) with Brian & ZachPor Doors & Corners
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Dawn of the Planet of the Apes
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This week on Doors & Corners we watch Dawn of the Planet of the Apes (2014) with Brian & ZachPor Doors & Corners
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For the last two weeks, our on-the-Croisette crew of Film Comment contributors has been reporting from the 2024 Cannes Film Festival with a series of thoughtful dispatches, interviews, and podcasts.Before the festival officially drew to a close last Saturday, Film Comment Editor Devika Girish moderated a panel about documentary ethics in the Cannes…
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Cannes 2024 is in wrapping up this weekend—and our intrepid on-the-Croisette crew of Film Comment contributors has been high-tailing it from screening to screening, cutting through the noise with a series of thoughtful dispatches, interviews, and podcasts.For our (nearly) final episode from the sunny shores of Southern France, Dennis Lim, Artistic …
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