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Sep 23, 2024 | filmcomment.com | JOSÉ TEODORO

This article appeared in the September 20, 2024 edition of The Film Comment Letter, our free weekly newsletter featuring original film criticism and writing. Sign up for the Letter here. Queer (Luca Guadagnino, 2024)The films I saw at the 2024 Toronto International Film Festival offered an array of welcome surprises.

Oct 11, 2023 | filmcomment.com | JOSÉ TEODORO

This article appeared in the October 10, 2023 edition of The Film Comment Letter, our free weekly newsletter featuring original film criticism and writing. Sign up for the Letter here. Read and listen to all of our coverage NYFF61 here.

Sep 25, 2023 | filmcomment.com | JOSÉ TEODORO

This article appeared in the September 21, 2023 edition of The Film Comment Letter, our free weekly newsletter featuring original film criticism and writing. Sign up for the Letter here.

Jun 9, 2023 | bloodvine.com | William Boyle |JOSÉ TEODORO |Michael Koresky |Ann Olsson

One of the most revelatory film experiences of my childhood was watching Alfred Hitchcock’s Lifeboat with my grandparents when I was 10. I can’t remember the exact circumstances—I believe it ran on PBS some lonesome Friday night, though I might be wrong about the night or the channel—but I’ll never forget the impact it had on me. It was my first Hitchcock. It was the first black-and-white movie I responded to that didn’t feature Laurel and Hardy or the Marx Brothers.

Mar 13, 2023 | filmcomment.com | JOSÉ TEODORO

ByJosé TeodoroonThis article appeared in the March 9, 2023 edition of The Film Comment Letter, our free weekly newsletter featuring original film criticism and writing. Sign up for the Letter here. India Song (Marguerite Duras, 1975)A blood-orange sun hovers in a swamp-green dusk, dissolving slowly over a horizon so barren and indistinct it could be almost anyplace. Then we arrive at a highly specific place: an embassy in Calcutta.