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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Repository of Laser Disc, DVD and BluRay Audio Commentaries
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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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For the last two weeks, our on-the-Croisette crew of Film Comment contributors has been reporting from the 2025 Cannes Film Festival with a series of thoughtful dispatches, interviews, and Podcasts.Before the festival wrapped on May 24, Film Comment partnered with Cannes Docs, the nonfiction-focused section of the Marché du film, on a panel titled …
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How to Train Your Dragon
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2:08:31This week on Doors & Corners we watch How to Train Your Dragon (2010) with Brian, Zach & Natasha.Por Doors & Corners
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Robocop (2014)
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2:24:20This week on Doors & Corners we watch Robocop (2014) with Brian & Zach.Por Doors & Corners
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Cannes 2025 #9, with Justin Chang, Tim Grierson, and Alison Willmore
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1:10:10Cannes 2025 is wrapping up this weekend—and our intrepid on-the-Croisette crew of Film Comment contributors has been high-tailing it from screening to screening, cutting through the noise with a series of thoughtful dispatches, interviews, and podcasts.For our ninth episode from the sunny shores of southern France, all-star critics Justin Chang, Ti…
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Robocop
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2:12:34This week on Doors & Corners we watch Robocop (1987) with Brian & Zach.Por Doors & Corners
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Cannes 2025 has arrived—and you can count on our on-the-Croisette crew of Film Comment contributors to cut through the noise with thoughtful dispatches, interviews, and Podcasts. This year's festival is packed with exciting premieres, including new films from Richard Linklater, Lynne Ramsay, Spike Lee, Bi Gan, Julia Ducournau, Wes Anderson, and man…
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Cannes 2025 is in full swing—and you can count on our on-the-Croisette crew of Film Comment contributors to cut through the noise with thoughtful dispatches, interviews, and Podcasts. This year’s festival is packed with exciting premieres, including new films from Richard Linklater, Lynne Ramsay, Spike Lee, Bi Gan, Julia Ducournau, Wes Anderson, an…
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Cannes 2025 has arrived—and you can count on our on-the-Croisette crew of Film Comment contributors to cut through the noise with thoughtful dispatches, interviews, and Podcasts. This year’s festival is packed with exciting premieres, including new films from Richard Linklater, Lynne Ramsay, Spike Lee, Bi Gan, Julia Ducournau, Wes Anderson, and man…
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Cannes 2025 has arrived—and you can count on our on-the-Croisette crew of Film Comment contributors to cut through the noise with thoughtful dispatches, interviews, and Podcasts. This year's festival is packed with exciting premieres, including new films from Richard Linklater, Lynne Ramsay, Spike Lee, Bi Gan, Julia Ducournau, Wes Anderson, and man…
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Cannes 2025 has arrived—and you can count on our on-the-Croisette crew of Film Comment contributors to cut through the noise with thoughtful dispatches, interviews, and Podcasts. This year's festival is packed with exciting premieres, including new films from Richard Linklater, Lynne Ramsay, Kleber Mendonça Filho, Spike Lee, Bi Gan, Julia Ducournau…
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Cannes 2025 has arrived—and you can count on our on-the-Croisette crew of Film Comment contributors to cut through the noise with thoughtful dispatches, interviews, and Podcasts. This year's festival is packed with exciting premieres, including new films from Richard Linklater, Lynne Ramsay, Kleber Mendonça Filho, Spike Lee, Bi Gan, Julia Ducournau…
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Hook (1991)
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2:40:43This week on Doors & Corners we watch Hook (1991) with Brian & Zach.Por Doors & Corners
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Cannes 2025 has arrived—and you can count on our on-the-Croisette crew of Film Comment contributors to cut through the noise with thoughtful dispatches, interviews, and Podcasts. This year's festival is packed with exciting premieres, including new films from Richard Linklater, Lynne Ramsay, Kleber Mendonça Filho, Spike Lee, Bi Gan, Julia Ducournau…
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Cannes 2025 has at last arrived—and while news of standing ovations and walkouts, throwaway raves and pans, spit takes and hot takes flood your feed, you can count on our on-the-Croisette crew of Film Comment contributors to cut through the noise with thoughtful dispatches, interviews, and Podcasts. This year's festival is packed with exciting prem…
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Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith
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2:49:46This week on Doors & Corners we watch Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith (2005) with Brian, Zach & Pat.Por Doors & Corners
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Legendary American scholar and critic Tom Gunning has changed the way we think about film history and the future of the medium, profoundly influencing generations of academics, artists, and cinephiles. On Sunday, April 27, Devika Girish and Clinton Krute hosted a live conversation with Gunning and curator David Schwartz at the Museum of the Moving …
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Star Wars: Attack of the Clones
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2:48:48This week on Door's & Corners we watch Star Wars: Attack of the Clones (2002) with Brian, Zach & Pat.Por Doors & Corners
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New Releases, with Robert Daniels and Michael Blair
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1:02:42Ryan Coogler’s Sinners, a singularly ambitious horror film set in 1930s Mississippi, is currently setting theaters ablaze (in an array of formats and aspect ratios to boot). The film stars Coogler mainstay Michael B. Jordan in a dual role as a pair of badass twins returning to their rural hometown of Clarksdale to build a blues joint—with performer…
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Star Wars: The Phantom Menace
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2:57:33This week on Doors & Corners we watch Star Wars: The Phantom Menace (1999) with Brian, Zach & Pat.Por Doors & Corners
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Dragonheart
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2:10:00This week on Doors & Corners we watch Dragonheart (1996) with Brian & Zach.Por Doors & Corners
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A new film by David Cronenberg is always a major event for all of us at Film Comment, especially after his 2022 opus Crimes of the Future was voted the Best Film of the Year by our contributors. So with Cronenberg’s latest, The Shrouds, opening in cinemas this weekend, we invited this singular auteur to talk about his strange and thrilling new movi…
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The Fifth Element
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2:28:30This week on Doors & Corners we watch The Fifth Element (1997) with Brian, Zach & Pat.Por Doors & Corners
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Arrival
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2:18:23This week on Doors & Corners we watch Arrival (2016) with Brian & Zach.Por Doors & Corners
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New Directors/New Films 2025, with Mark Asch and Natalia Keogan
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1:12:45Spring is finally in the air, and, for New York City cinephiles, that means it’s time for another edition of New Directors/New Films, the annual showcase for standout works by emerging filmmakers co-hosted by Film at Lincoln Center and the Museum of Modern Art. The festival is always a reliable sign of trends to come and talents to look out for—pas…
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The Avengers
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2:50:11This week on Doors & Corners we watch The Avengers (2012) with Brian & Zach.Por Doors & Corners
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Thor (2011)
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2:20:11This week on Doors & Corners we watch Thor (2011) with Brian & Zach.Por Doors & Corners
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Captain America: The First Avenger
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2:33:20This week on Doors & Corners we watch Captain America: The First Avenger (2011) with Brian, Pat & Zach.Por Doors & Corners
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New Releases, with Tim Grierson
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1:09:50Today’s episode marks another entry in our New Releases series, where we dig into the latest titles opening in theaters and offer recommendations on what’s worth seeking out and what’s better left skipped. With so many worthy films to choose from lately, Film Comment’s Devika Girish and Clinton Krute invited critic Tim Grierson (Los Angeles Times, …
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Wrath of the Titans
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2:11:32This week on Doors & Corners we watch Wrath of the Titans (2012) with Brian & Zach.Por Doors & Corners
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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.Por Doors & Corners
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The 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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On 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.Por 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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Frequency
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2:17:07This week on Doors & Corners we watch Frequency (2000) with Brian & Zach.Por 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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Serenity
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2:33:48This week on Doors & Corners we watch Serenity (2005) with Brian & Zach.Por Doors & Corners
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Real-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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Iron Man 2
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2:27:27This week on Doors & Corners we watch Iron Man 2 (2010) with Brian & Zach.Por Doors & Corners
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The 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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It’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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It’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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It’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.Por Doors & Corners
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Iron Man
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2:25:41This week on Doors & Corners we watch Iron Man (2008) with Brian, Zach & Pat.Por Doors & Corners
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Nosferatu, 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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A 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.Por 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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