Film Comment

TODAY IS KIND OF A SUCKY DAY.” It is with those ignoble words that Peter Barbey reportedly informed his staff, one fine day this August, that The Village Voice was ceasing publication for good. Almost exactly one year earlier, the Voice stopped publi

READING JAMES BALDWIN WITH A MIND TOWARD ADAPTING him was a daunting prospect. I’d always worshipped James Baldwin. For me, as it pertains to exploring humanity through writing, he was the monolith at the conclusion of Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: oblique

Aside from the very specific peculiarity of eating chicken in the dark, it’s become fairly unremarkable to watch the latest blockbuster or art-house crossover while being served a full-course meal. This reportedly quite profitable trend is not going

WHEN DONALD TRUMP WAS ELECTED PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES in November 2016, many Americans felt trepidation about handing over the most powerful job in the world to a pugnacious, intellectually incurious, alarmingly partisan political neophyte. So

THE CINEMA OF JACQUES TOURNEUR COMES BACK TO me in pieces, dissolved but for the few bits that bob to the surface of the mind, sometimes the same ones, sometimes different. In a conversation on Tourneur’s works, Pedro Costa, an admirer, once commente

(Act of August 12, 1970: Section 3685. Title 39. United States Code) 1. Title of publication Film Comment 2. Publication number 8017-60 3. Date of filing September 19, 2018 4. Frequency of issue Bimonthly 5. Number of issues published annually 6 6. A

Director: Steve McQueen Country/Distributor: UK/USA, 20th Century Fox Opening: November 16 Veronica Rawlings (Viola Davis) isn’t a criminal, but her husband Harry (Liam Neeson) was. After he and his crew die in fiery chaos at the start of Steve McQue

Director: Patrick Wang Country/Distributor: USA, In the Family LLC Opened: October 26 A cash-strapped community theater director summons a lovelorn young man onstage, and as he faces an empty house (and a bleak future), knowingly assures him, “Things

Director: Peter Farrelly Country/Distributor: USA, Universal Pictures Opening:November 21 Published from 1936 to 1966, the “green book” was a travel guide for African-Americans that listed housing and other establishments known to be welcoming to the

Director: Joseph Kahn Country/Distributor: USA, YouTube Originals & NEON Opening:November 2 In battle rap parlance, to be “bodied” is to be thoroughly verbally dominated by one’s opponent in combat. So dizzying and unceasing is the wordplay in Joseph

Director: Brady Corbet Country/Distributor: USA, NEON Opening: December 7 Divided into chapters, Vox Lux begins at the end of the 20th century, when a school shooting leaves teenage Celeste (Raffey Cassidy) with a lifethreatening injury. She and her

Director: Karyn Kusama Country/Distributor: USA, Annapurna Pictures Opening:December 25 When Nicole Kidman enters Destroyer as Erin, an LAPD officer in evident conflict with a swarm of demons, you’ll either gasp at her gaunt, hollow-eyed, knockkneed