And if you back off from that stuff, you’re shooting right down into lukewarm junk." “I don’t know if you’re a detective or a ...

On today’s Podcast, Eggers joins Film Comment Editor Devika Girish to discuss why he wanted to make Dracula “scary” again, ...

Whatever your political affiliation, 2024 was a year full of anxiety, anger, sadness, fear, and strong core beliefs clashing ...

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One imagines James Baldwin would have had none of that. In his most sustained commentary on cinema, the 1976 book-length essay The Devil Finds Work, he gives voice to the suspicion and anger that many ...

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These likely aren’t the questions that Bannon aimed to provoke by making this film, which features an opening montage that cribs liberally from Leni Riefenstahl’s Triumph of the Will and which was ...

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Resting on a small peninsula in the San Francisco Bay, a castle-like fortress, adorned with battlements atop, separates prisoners from society. The place is San Quentin Rehabilitation Center (formerly ...