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Over 10 episodes, all directed by Jenkins, the show traces the odyssey of a young enslaved woman named Cora after her escape from a plantation in antebellum Georgia. As Cora is pursued from state to state by a seemingly possessed slave catcher, Jenkins combines bracing and often brutal realism with moments of thrilling fantasy and beauty. Film Comment sat down with Jenkins to discuss five key scenes from the series, and the ideas and intricate craft that went into each....

FILM COMMENT Digital Editor Violet Lucca was joined by Scott and another veteran critic, Matt Zoller Seitz of RogerEbert.com and New York magazine, to discuss ideas raised by the book and how larger changes in media have affected their careers and the profession at large. Listen/Subscribe:

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This week, as we mourn the recent passing of one of our greatest artists, Film Comment Co-Deputy Editors Devika Girish and Clinton Krute invited two critics and Godard experts for a talk about the filmmaker’s life and career. Richard Brody writes about movies for The New Yorker and is the author of the must-read Godard biography, Everything Is Cinema, and Blair McClendon is a film editor, regular Film Comment contributor, and author of a beautiful remembrance of Godard published by n+1....

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For our second podcast envoi from the festival, Film Comment Publisher Eugene Hernandez sat down with Sundance Director of Programming Kim Yutani. The two discuss their long history with Sundance, its larger role in the film ecosystem, as well as the unique circumstances under which this year’s festival is taking place. To stay up to date on all our Sundance 2022 coverage, keep your eyes on this space, and subscribe to the Film Comment Letter....

Tom Luddy (second from right) with Jean-Pierre Gorin and Jean-Luc Godard during their visit to the PFA in the 1970s. Courtesy of the University of California Berkeley, Berkeley Art Museum & Pacific Film Archive, Film Library & Study Center At a Q&A between screenings of Breathless (1983) and The Big Easy (1986) last summer at the New Beverly Cinema in Los Angeles, director Jim McBride recounted how he got permission from Jean-Luc Godard for his Richard Gere–starring remake: “I knew this guy named Tom Luddy, who ran the Pacific Film Archive....

Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia Sam Peckinpah, 1974 Claire’s Knee Eric Rohmer, 1970 Faces John Cassavetes, 1968 Eyes Without a Face Georges Franju, 1960 Eyes Wide Shut Stanley Kubrick, 1999 Adam’s Rib George Cukor, 1949 Reflections in a Golden Eye John Huston, 1967 Heart of Glass Werner Herzog, 1976 The 1,000 Eyes of Dr. Mabuse Fritz Lang, 1960 Baby Face Nelson Don Siegel, 1957 True Heart Susie D....

Above all else, Inherent Vice is a Paul Thomas Anderson movie, which means that it’s not here to be categorized or instantly consumed. So while anyone who has any memory of the early Seventies will feel like they’re back there again with the establishment/counterculture antagonisms and raging ego trips and spells of mellow sunlight, they will also, like the film’s hero, detect another phantom vibe. With Inherent Vice, Anderson brings us tangibly close to the colors and moods and dream horizons of America in the days of Hawks and Doves....

Neptune Frost (Saul Williams and Anisia Uzeyman, 2021) Saul Williams and Anisia Uzeyman’s sci-fi musical, Neptune Frost, opens with a striking instance of an oppositional gaze: Neptune—played here by Cheryl Isheja, one of two actors embodying the character in the film—spins around to face the camera in close-up. Isheja’s appearance is arresting: her eyelids and lashes are tinged with gold, and her face is partly concealed by a mesh headpiece that looks like the skeleton of a strange fish....