Film Comment Magazine

Introducing Hold Everything Dear – John Berger and Cinema: A multi-venue Film Comment: Live series celebrating the writer’s centennial. filmcomment.com/events/film-co…

A selection of the series’ films will screen at @AnthologyFilm, including Walk the Walk, presented by @bnjmncrs, The Salamander, Omnibus: Pig Earth + Omnibus: Parting Shots from Animals, and The Seasons in Quincy: Four Portraits of John Berger. anthologyfilmarchives.org/film_screening…

John Berger was one of the most important writers of the last century. Don’t miss the Opening Night of Hold Everything Dear – John Berger and Cinema: A multi-venue @FilmComment: Live series at @FilmLinc. filmlinc.org/films/la-rabbi…

Play Me Something draws on Celtic oral tradition and European modernism to tell the beguiling story of a storyteller: a mysterious raconteur played by Berger in a bowler hat. Timothy Neat’s Play Me Something screens at @BAMfilmBrooklyn July 30. bam.org/film/2026/play…

I wrote about the great Ronee Blakley for @FilmComment. filmcomment.com/article/seeing…

"For all the undeniably stunning vistas afforded by the IMAX camera—the craggy cliffs of Ithaca, the low-tide expanse of Calypso’s beach—most of the film takes place in medium close-up." @genevieveyue reviews Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey. filmcomment.com/article/there-…

@FilmLinc programmer and freelance translator @maddiewhittle takes a look at how John Early’s remarkable directorial debut Maddie's Secret filters the ravages of an eating disorder through the funny-yet-sincere lens of camp. filmcomment.com/article/better…

"Though the film satirizes L.A. foodie culture, the “content creator” economy, and their attendant pathologies with lethal precision, Early is protective of his heroine, refusing to entertain contempt or condescension, and thereby ensuring that the joke is never at her expense."

Explore these pieces (and more) on @FilmComment's Archive. filmcomment.com/archive/

And most recently, Associate Professor of Culture and Media and author @genevieveyue covers Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey, which "offers up a strangely bloodless and dour vision of Homer’s lively world of men and gods." filmcomment.com/article/there-…

Learn more about your favorite director’s previous work by exploring the @FilmComment Archive.