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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Oscars 2025 Preview with The Los Angeles Review of Books
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43:16The Academy Awards take place on Sunday, March 2, bringing a strange and wonderful year in cinema—and an awards race filled with surprises and scandals—to an end. Will Emilia Perez win prizes despite the controversy surrounding its lead actress? Will Timothée Chalamet as Bob Dylan beat Adrien Brody as a brutalist architect in the Best Actor categor…
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Clash of the Titans (2010)
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2:12:18This week on Doors & Corners we watch Clash of the Titans (2010) with Brian & Zach.Von Doors & Corners
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The Frederick Wiseman Potluck, with Andrew Katzenstein, Genevieve Yue, and Michael Blair
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59:16On January 31, Film at Lincoln Center opened a landmark new retrospective titled Frederick Wiseman: An American Institution. The series showcases new 4K restorations of over thirty of the filmmaker’s works, which together form a monumental survey of modern American life—with a frequent focus on the intersections of individuals and institutions. Wis…
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Clash of the Titans (1981)
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2:18:51This week on Doors & Corners we watch Clash of the Titans (1981) with Brian & Zach.Von Doors & Corners
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You’re Projecting – Valentine’s Day Edition, with Matthew Rankin and Haley Mlotek
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1:13:57When it comes to love and desire, the movies have always had a powerful sway: as a mirror, as a site of fantasy, and as a perfect backdrop for date night. For Valentine’s Day this year, Film Comment Editors Clinton Krute and Devika Girish invited author Haley Mlotek and filmmaker Matthew Rankin, two highly trained experts in the parallel worlds of …
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This week on Doors & Corners we watch Frequency (2000) with Brian & Zach.Von Doors & Corners
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Afro-Asian Film Festival at IFFR, with Bunga Siagian, Yuki Aditya, Cici Peng, and Inney Prakash
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1:21:27The International Film Festival of Rotterdam, which ran from January 30 through February 9 this year, is a festival with a uniquely wide-ranging and eclectic program of new and repertory films; narrative, documentary, and experimental work; and installations, performances, and expanded cinema. One of the highlights of this year’s festival was a spe…
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This week on Doors & Corners we watch Serenity (2005) with Brian & Zach.Von Doors & Corners
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True Crime at Sundance 2025, with Charlie Shackleton, David Osit, and Geeta Gandhbir
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58:23Real-life stories of grisly crimes have always had a primal pull on our collective imagination. It’s now axiomatic that if there’s anything that sells better than sex, it’s true crime. In the last decade, the genre has blown up into a media behemoth, with more and more cliffhanger podcasts, television shows, and documentaries released each year, sp…
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This week on Doors & Corners we watch Iron Man 2 (2010) with Brian & Zach.Von Doors & Corners
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Sundance 2025 #4: Isabelle Huppert on LUZ
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22:34The great French actress Isabelle Huppert is a mainstay at many international festivals, but seeing her grace the screens at Sundance in Park City, Utah was a uniquely pleasant surprise. Huppert stars in LUZ, the second feature from Hong Kong director Flora Lau, which premiered in the World Cinema Dramatic Competition at this year’s edition. The fi…
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Sundance 2025 #3, with Lovia Gyarkye, Alana Pockros, and Lisa Wong Macabasco
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54:57It’s late January, which means that the intrepid Film Comment crew is once again on the snowy slopes of Park City, Utah, bringing you dispatches, interviews, and podcasts covering all the highlights of this year's Sundance Film Festival. For the next week, we’ll be gathering the best critics on the scene to talk about each day’s premieres on the Po…
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Sundance 2025 #5, with Vadim Rizov and Ruun Nuur
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59:10It’s late January, which means that the intrepid Film Comment crew is once again on the snowy slopes of Park City, Utah, bringing you dispatches, interviews, and podcasts covering all the highlights of this year's Sundance Film Festival. For the next week, we’ll be gathering the best critics on the scene to talk about each day’s premieres on the Po…
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Sundance 2025 #2, with Robert Daniels and Tim Grierson
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47:32It’s late January, which means that the intrepid Film Comment crew is once again on the snowy slopes of Park City, Utah, bringing you dispatches, interviews, and podcasts covering all the highlights of this year's Sundance Film Festival. For the next week and a half, we’ll be gathering the best critics on the scene to talk about each day’s premiere…
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Sundance 2025 #1, with Maddie Whittle, Ruun Nuur, and Vadim Rizov
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1:10:08It’s late January, which means that the intrepid Film Comment crew is once again on the snowy slopes of Park City, Utah, bringing you dispatches, interviews, and podcasts covering all the highlights of this year's Sundance Film Festival. For the next week and a half, we’ll be gathering the best critics on the scene to talk about each day’s premiere…
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The Incredible Hulk
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2:13:53This week on Doors & Corners we watch The Incredible Hulk (2008) with Brian & Zach.Von Doors & Corners
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This week on Doors & Corners we watch Iron Man (2008) with Brian, Zach & Pat.Von Doors & Corners
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Robert Eggers on Nosferatu
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31:29Nosferatu, the new film by Robert Eggers, has been the talk of the movie-town since its release on Christmas Day. With his remake of F.W. Murnau’s 1922 classic of the same name, Eggers has become the latest auteur to bring Bram Stoker’s 1897 novel Dracula to the screen, joining a group that also includes Werner Herzog and Francis Ford Coppola. Like…
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Mike Leigh on Hard Truths
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34:56A new film from Mike Leigh is always a cause for celebration. Starting with his first feature Bleak Moments in 1971, Leigh has carved out a singular place in British and global cinema for his beautifully sensitive and detailed portraits of the lives of his largely working-class characters. His latest, Hard Truths, arrives six years after his previo…
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Punisher: War Zone
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2:23:23The week on Doors & Corners we watch Punisher: War Zone (2008) with Brian & Zach.Von Doors & Corners
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New Year, New Releases, with Lovia Gyarkye and Michael Blair
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1:14:32Two enigmatic icons with enduring holds on the Western imagination are currently lighting up multiplex screens: fearsome Transylvanian vampire Dracula and Nobel Prize–winning American treasure Bob Dylan. Both released on Christmas Day, Robert Eggers’s Nosferatu and James Mangold’s A Complete Unknown are ambitious efforts at crafting new and absorbi…
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The Punisher (2004)
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2:32:05This week on Doors & Corners we watch The Punisher (2004) with Brian, Zach & Pat.Von Doors & Corners
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Back to the Future: Part 3
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2:20:02This week on Doors & Corners we watch Back to the Future: Part 3 (1990) with Brian & Zach.Von Doors & Corners
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2024 Year in Review Special Episode
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2:17:38During this special episode we review our 3 top picks and 3 bottom picks from our first year of recording (2024). Join Brian, Zach & Pat as they look back on their first year of film commentaries.Von Doors & Corners
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Back to the Future: Part 2
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2:12:59This week on Doors & Corners we watch Back to the Future: Part 2 (1989) with Brian & Zach.Von Doors & Corners
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The Best Films of 2024, with Molly Haskell and Michael Koresky
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1:51:01On 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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Back to the Future
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2:24:30The week on Doors & Corners we watch Back to the Future (1985) with Brian, Zach and special guest Dan.Von Doors & Corners
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This week on Doors & Corners we watch Spawn (1997) with Brian, Zach & Pat.Von Doors & Corners
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Holiday New Releases, with Robert Daniels and Beatrice Loayza
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1:08:19Sleepily 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.Von Doors & Corners
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Conan the Barbarian (2011)
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2:12:06The week on Doors & Corners we watch Conan the Barbarian (2011) with Brian & Zach.Von Doors & Corners
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Julianne Moore on The Room Next Door
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24:35During 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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Conan The Barbarian (1982)
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2:32:12This week on Doors & Corners we watch Conan the Barbarian (1982) with Brian & Zach.Von Doors & Corners
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Payal Kapadia and Miguel Gomes
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1:07:24When 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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2:14:19This week on Doors & Corners we watch Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country (1991) with Brian, Zach & Pat.Von Doors & Corners
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The Films of Robert Kramer, with Erika Balsom and Benjamin Crais
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1:21:41The 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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1:59:56This week on Doors & Corners we watch Star Trek V: The Final Frontier (1989) with Brian, Zach & Pat.Von Doors & Corners
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This week on Doors & Corners we watch Aliens (1986) with Brian & Zach.Von Doors & Corners
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This week on Doors & Corners we watch Alien (1979) with Brian & Zach.Von Doors & Corners
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NYFF62 Festival Report, with Bilge Ebiri and Lovia Gyarkye
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1:16:48As 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.Von Doors & Corners
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Collective Protagonists, with Brett Story, Stephen Maing, John Hanson, and Rob Nilsson
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1:09:55Two 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.Von Doors & Corners
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This week on Doors & Corners we watch Superman II (1980) with Brian & Zach.Von Doors & Corners
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The Films of Christopher Harris
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1:01:57The 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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2:36:27The week on Doors & Corners we watch Superman: The Movie (1978) with Brian & Zach.Von Doors & Corners
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Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home
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2:12:04The week on Doors & Corners we watch Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home (1986) with Brian, Zach & Pat.Von Doors & Corners
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Toronto 2024 #4, with David Schwartz, Saffron Maeve, and Robert Daniels
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47:36This 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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43:43This 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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49:03This 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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