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Film Comment Recommends: An Evening with Chikako Yamashiro

2 weeks ago | filmcomment.com | Devika Girish

This article appeared in the March 28, 2025 edition of The Film Comment Letter, our free weekly newsletter featuring original film criticism and writing. Sign up for the Letter here. I Like Okinawa Sweet (Chikako Yamashiro, 2004). Courtesy the artist and Yumiko Chiba Associates. There is something unsettlingly liminal about Chikako Yamashiro’s work. The Okinawan artist’s videos take place, for the most part, on thresholds of one kind or another: graveyards, fences, shores, national borders.
God Help Us

2 weeks ago | filmcomment.com | Vadim Rizov

This article appeared in the March 28, 2025 edition of The Film Comment Letter, our free weekly newsletter featuring original film criticism and writing. Sign up for the Letter here. Jesus Revolution (Jon Erwin and Brent McCorkle, 2023)In the mid-aughts, enabled by my then-editor, A.A. Dowd of The A.V. Club, I proactively requested review assignments for anti-evolution tracts, the God’s Not Dead franchise, and adjacent mental garbage.
Bugged Out

3 weeks ago | filmcomment.com | Caitlin Doherty

This article appeared in the March 21, 2025 edition of The Film Comment Letter, our free weekly newsletter featuring original film criticism and writing. Sign up for the Letter here. Mickey 17 (Bong Joon Ho, 2025)It is not hard to imagine a terrible future. Ours is an age of cynical catastrophism.
Family Matters

1 month ago | filmcomment.com | Ayanna Dozier

This article appeared in the March 7, 2025 edition of The Film Comment Letter, our free weekly newsletter featuring original film criticism and writing. Sign up for the Letter here. On Becoming a Guinea Fowl (Rungano Nyoni, 2024)There is no polite way to talk about sexual assault.
Berlinale 2025: All That Is Solid

1 month ago | filmcomment.com | Ela Bittencourt

This article appeared in the February 28, 2025 edition of The Film Comment Letter, our free weekly newsletter featuring original film criticism and writing. Sign up for the Letter here. Kontinental ’25 (Radu Jude, 2025)The weather was pleasant but the zeitgeist damp on the last day of the 75th Berlinale, as Germans voted in the federal election.
IFFR 2025: Another World

1 month ago | filmcomment.com | Devika Girish

This article appeared in the February 21, 2025 edition of The Film Comment Letter, our free weekly newsletter featuring original film criticism and writing. Sign up for the Letter here. The Open Door (Henry Barakat, 1963)Indonesian curator and artist Bunga Siagian had never seen Turang (1958), the acclaimed film by her father, Bachtiar Siagian, while growing up. She had never seen any of his films, in fact—she had only read about them in books.
Berlin 2025: Stuck in the Middle

1 month ago | filmcomment.com | Jonathan Romney

This article appeared in the February 21, 2025 edition of The Film Comment Letter, our free weekly newsletter featuring original film criticism and writing. Sign up for the Letter here. Mickey 17 (Bong Joon Ho, 2025)Berlin has always been considered one of the most political of film festivals, with programming tending to reflect key social debates over the decades.
Interview: Jennifer Reeves on The Gloria of Your Imagination

2 months ago | filmcomment.com | Paul Attard

This article appeared in the February 14, 2025 edition of The Film Comment Letter, our free weekly newsletter featuring original film criticism and writing. Sign up for the Letter here. The Gloria of Your Imagination (Jennifer Reeves, 2024). Image courtesy of Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive. Jennifer Reeves has long explored the intersections of women’s autonomy, psychology, and the cultural forces that shape them.
Sundance 2025: Separation Anxiety

2 months ago | 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.
Either/Or: Reid Davenport on Life After

2 months ago | filmcomment.com | Devika Girish

This article appeared in the January 24, 2025 edition of The Film Comment Letter, our free weekly newsletter featuring original film criticism and writing. Sign up for the Letter here. Life After (Reid Davenport, 2025)When filmmaker Reid Davenport first learned about Elizabeth Bouvia—the young woman who, in 1983, petitioned a court in California to require her hospital to help her die—he had a hunch that there was more to her story than met the eye.