For the most part, the September/October issue of Film Comment is a New York Film Festival preview. We've seen Scott Foundas's piece on David Fincher's The Social Network, whose world premiere will
"This is a film whose story turns on one character's offer to repair another's shoe, the implications of this small act weighted so as to hold you in hushed fascination through every stitch," writes
"Many tears were shed at the world premiere screening of 127 Hours at the Telluride Film Festival on Saturday afternoon," reports John Horn in the Los Angeles Times. "But few in the audience of some
"Based on the acclaimed novel by The Remains of the Day scribe Kazuo Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go is that rare find, a fragile little four-leaf clover of a movie that's emotionally devastating, yet all
"After facilitating the dispersal of countless bullet casings via the slow-motion shootouts he pioneered in his films," blogs Dave Itzkoff for the New York Times, "John Woo was rewarded Friday with
"'I don't want actors, I want people,' director Miguel Gomes tells an impatient producer in an early scene from his masterpiece Our Beloved Month of August, which itself lies somewhere uncomfortably
"With the wry, shimmery and thoroughly beguiling Somewhere, Coppola has perhaps made exactly the film she needed to at this point in her career: one that calmly takes stock of her abilities and interests
"Following her typically idiosyncratic revision of Bluebeard, Gallic helmer Catherine Breillat fractures another fairy tale with The Sleeping Beauty," writes Leslie Felperin in Variety. "The story
"That the infirm of mind make for troublesome film subjects is demonstrated once again in Ascanio Celestini's striking but over self-conscious feature debut, The Black Sheep, one of three Italian films
Stephen Frankfurt was something of a real-life Don Draper: a hot shot ’Sixties Madison Avenue ad executive who was profiled by the BBC in 1965 in a 30 minute film called The Quiet Persuader (the whole
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Starting tomorrow and running through Monday, the Telluride Film Festival will screen 24 new feature films in the "Show" as well as six programs curated by Guest Director Michael Ondaatje, 25 new shorts