Sarah Fensom

Jan 13, 2025 | filmcomment.com | Chris Shields |Sarah Fensom

This article appeared in the January 10, 2025 edition of The Film Comment Letter, our free weekly newsletter featuring original film criticism and writing. Sign up for the Letter here. Cutter’s Way (Ivan Passer, 1981)In 2024, Best Buy, the ubiquitous big-box consumer technology retailer, began phasing out DVDs and Blu-rays from its stores.

Mar 4, 2024 | filmcomment.com | Sarah Fensom

This article appeared in the March 1, 2024 edition of The Film Comment Letter, our free weekly newsletter featuring original film criticism and writing. Sign up for the Letter here. About Dry Grasses (Nuri Bilge Ceylan, 2024)Samet (Deniz Celiloğlu) is biding his time. The protagonist of Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s engrossing drama About Dry Grasses is a school teacher who has been waiting for a transfer from a remote Anatolian village to Istanbul for four years.