Amy Taubin

New York

Contributing Editor at Film Comment Magazine

Editor at Freelance

I write, occasionally and with difficulty. Rather lounge with my cats.

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Articles

Everyone’s Gone to the Movies

4 weeks ago | ssense.com | Brian Karlsson |Ross Scarano |Amy Taubin |Patrick Dahl

Last summer, the Brooklyn Academy of Music hosted a restoration of No Fear No Die, an early and seldom-screened noir from the French iconoclast Claire Denis. It’s a spare tale of cockfighting and colonialism set at a tawdry truck stop-slash-nightclub outside Paris. J. Hoberman, that living legend of film criticism, celebrated the release for the “Rewind” column at the New York Times.
Cinéma Laika de Veljko Vidak (2023), synopsis, casting, diffusions tv, photos, videos...- Télé-Loisirs

1 month ago | programme-tv.net | Amy Taubin |Veljko Vidak |Nuppu Koivu |Simon Al-Bazoon

Diffusé aujourd'hui de 22h07 à 23h30 Cinéma Laika Format : Cinéma Genre : Film documentaire Durée : 1h21min Sortie : 2023 Pays : France - Finlande Réalisateur : Veljko Vidak Voir plus Votre note Résumé Cinéma Laika Dans la petite ville de Karkkila, dans la région de Uusimaa, Pepe Toikka, collectionneur de vieilles voitures, possède les anciens locaux de la fonderie de Högfors appelés Ala-Emali.
Sundance 2025: Separation Anxiety

Feb 10, 2025 | filmcomment.com | Amy Taubin

This article appeared in a special February 7, 2025 edition of The Film Comment Letter, our free weekly newsletter featuring original film criticism and writing. Sign up for the Letter here. BLKNWS: Terms & Conditions (Kahlil Joseph, 2025)I can’t begin to imagine what it would have been like to be on the ground at Sundance in the year 2025.
Singular Scenes of the Year

Dec 20, 2024 | filmcomment.com | Amy Taubin

This article is part of Film Comment’s Best of 2024 coverage. Read all the lists here. All We Imagine as Light (Payal Kapadia, 2024)I was knocked out by Luca Guadagnino’s Queer, a swooningly gorgeous film whose bloody heart and loose piriformis muscle is Daniel Craig’s performance as Bill Lee—a character who is as like and unlike William S. Burroughs as was the Bill Lee of the novel from which the movie is adapted.
Off Screen Spaces: Azazel Jacobs on

Sep 18, 2024 | filmmakermagazine.com | Amy Taubin

Click here to read our summer 2024 issue, featuring Jonathan Lethem in conversation with Between the Temples's Nathan Silver, Daniel Garber on how true crime series are edited and more...
A Lonely Woman

Jun 7, 2024 | screenslate.com | Amy Taubin

One of the greatest living filmmakers, Agnieszka Holland is fearless and uncompromising in her narrative and visual depiction of state sanctioned patriarchal violence and terror.
Interview: Mitra Farahani on Jean-Luc Godard’s Last Film(s)

May 28, 2024 | filmcomment.com | Amy Taubin

This article appeared in the May 24, 2024 edition of The Film Comment Letter, our free weekly newsletter featuring original film criticism and writing. Sign up for the Letter here. Exposé du film annonce du film “Scénario” (Jean-Luc Godard, 2024)So many last films, each one conceived, shot, and edited as if there might not be another. Trailer of the Film That Will Never Exist: “Phony Wars,” directed by Jean-Luc Godard, premiered at Cannes in 2023.
“14 Inches From a Very Personal Form of Murder”: Steven Soderbergh on Camera as Character and His Sundance Horror Film, Presence | Filmmaker Magazine

Jan 20, 2024 | filmmakermagazine.com | Amy Taubin

Back to selection Callina Lianag as Chloe in Presence (Photo: Peter Andrews) by Amy Taubin in Cinematographers, Directors, Interviews, Screenwriters, Sundance, Sundance Features on Jan 20, 2024 David Koepp, Presence, Steven Soderbergh, Sundance Film Festival, Sundance Film Festival 2024 A heady, elegantly-constructed ghost story, Steven Soderbergh’s Presence has a bunch of half-buried threads, a couple of perfectly-timed scares, and a horrific close-up of an act of violence that mesmerizes...
Amy Taubin's Best Films of 2023

Dec 11, 2023 | screenslate.com | Amy Taubin

This is the best-of-the-year film list I wrote for Artforum and then withdrew in protest against the firing of the magazine’s great editor-in-chief David Velasco. I was not alone, as even a cursory look at the skeletal December issue reveals. I’ve written for and been a contributing editor to Artforum for over two decades, and I’m as proud of my association with the magazine as I was of writing for the Village Voice.
Trenque Lauquen: the mutating production of the year’s most intoxicating mystery

Dec 7, 2023 | bfi.org.uk | Sam Wigley |Lou Thomas |Katie McCabe |Amy Taubin

What to make of a film that has just placed 38th in Sight and Sound’s best films of 2023 poll, but which also came 39th in the same poll in 2022? On the long road from festival premiere via gathering word of mouth to UK release this week, Laura Citarella’s 12-chaptered, four-and-a-half hour long mystery drama Trenque Lauquen has clearly picked up a growing crowd of fans among the voting bodies. How fitting that, like the film itself, they should be split into two parts.