We'd been wondering what Manohla Dargis would have to say about this year's edition of Film Comment Selects, the festival of underscreened essentials programmed by the editors of the Magazine.
Today in the New York Times, she previewed this year's lineup.
“The series throws a necessary light on largely Off Hollywood movies that can slip out of or never secure distribution because they’re perceived as boring, difficult, controversial, tasteless — pick a critical kiss of death,” wrote Manohla Dargis, “In its modest fashion, Film Comment Selects helps offset the calamitous state of foreign-language film distribution by highlighting work that hasn’t (yet) inspired the love and guts it takes to put a subtitled movie in American theaters.
