Clinton Krute

Sep 30, 2024 | filmcomment.com | Clinton Krute

This article appeared in the September 27, 2024 edition of The Film Comment Letter, our free weekly newsletter featuring original film criticism and writing. Sign up for the Letter here. The Brutalist (Brady Corbet, 2024)Grief and loss are both overpowering and elusive, impossible to examine directly but always present for the stricken, like a sunspot on the edge of one’s vision. We struggle to confront and describe it in detail, precisely because it is so daunting and so massive an obstacle.

May 31, 2024 | filmcomment.com | J. HOBERMAN |Michael Koresky |Clinton Krute |Ela Bittencourt

From the March-April 2020 IssueAlso in this issueSubscribe to the magazineIf Heimat Is a Space in Time were a fiction film like A Hidden Life or Jojo Rabbit (to name two recent features glossing over the worst episode of Germany’s recent past), it would be an avant-garde masterpiece—a narrative interweaving multiple voices, including that of the state, eschewing transitions, and alternately doubling back on itself or jumping unexpectedly into the future.

May 13, 2024 | filmcomment.com | Clinton Krute

This article appeared in the May 10, 2024 edition of The Film Comment Letter, our free weekly newsletter featuring original film criticism and writing. Sign up for the Letter here. Evil Does Not Exist (Ryûsuke Hamaguchi, 2023)Ryûsuke Hamaguchi’s latest feature, Evil Does Not Exist, arrives with an alternate, shadow version: GIFT, a re-edited film created as a silent accompaniment to a live performance by composer Eiko Ishibashi, who also scored Hamaguchi’s smash hit Drive My Car (2021).

Apr 28, 2024 | bombmagazine.org | Clinton Krute

Jasmine Gregory’s work in painting, sculpture, and installation is a self-referential critique of the art object itself, challenging its function across domains including materiality, conceptual intent, forms of representation, and the Western art-historical canon. She also looks at her own role as a painter within this dynamic by placing particular emphasis on questions around commercial value and its relation to lineage.

Feb 16, 2024 | bombmagazine.org | Clinton Krute

Twenty years after the arrival of their shocking debut album Keep On Your Mean Side (2003), Alison Mosshart and Jamie Hince of The Kills are still paving the path forward for rock music. The duo, whose sound defined the blistering and seductive rock of the aughts, have long been beacons of a deeply modern, effortless cool; their recent record, God Games (2023), proves they are still ahead of the curve.