Film Comment

LET’S GET TOGETHER AGAIN SOON.” In the past two months, the simplest phrases have taken on a special poignancy, as the coronavirus changes our usual way of life. For many, that usual way of life was already subject to debate, though: were we going to

Editor-in-Chief Nicolas Rapold Digital Editor Clinton Krute Assistant Editor Devika Girish Copy Editor Steven Mears Consulting Art Director Kevin Fisher Consultant Michael Koresky Contributing Editors Nick Davis J. Hoberman Dave Kehr Nellie Killian S

WE WERE VERY FORTUNATE TO SHOOT ON 16MM. Theater is my background, and moving into film, what I wanted most from this experience was to have the material matter. I didn’t want high gloss, I wanted something more textured with soft edges. The story it

“I find the cruelest joke is that we die. You’re alive and you’re conscious and you’re aware—and then it ends. It’s just so absurd! So I found it really important to include a sense of humor [in the movie].” THE END IS NEAR IN SHE DIES TOMORROW, A FI

“New York Eye and Ear Control was edited with no reference to what sound episode might accompany it. It is an attempt to make a simultaneity of ‘eye’ with ‘ear.’ And the music was created to be a movie sound track, not to just be music.” 1. The Woman

Before I started translating Parasite, I received a very long email from Bong Joon Ho, where he mentioned all the issues that he anticipated we would have to deal with in the subtitles. IN A RUNNING GAG IN BONG JOON HO’S OKJA, a Korean-American membe

Expanded Cinema: Fiftieth Anniversary Edition By Gene Youngblood, Fordham University Press, $34.95 GENE YOUNGBLOOD’S OPUS EXPANDED CINEMA IS A manifesto and a prophecy, at times clairvoyant in its claims for the future, at others ridiculous in its bu