Film Comment Selects

Film Comment’s festival of movies returns in its 19th edition with a selection of titles curated by the magazine’s editors, offering strikingly bold visions, mixing New York premieres of new films and long-unseen older titles that deserve the big-screen treatment.

Sunset

László Nemes

35mm
Sunset

2018|

Hungary|

144 minutes|

Hungarian and German with English subtitles

Academy Award–winner László Nemes (Son of Saul) returns with an audacious, spellbindingly shot new film about an orphaned young woman searching for her mysterious brother in Budapest at the beginning of the 20th century.

High Flying Bird

Steven Soderbergh

High Flying Bird

2019|

USA|

90 minutes

During a pro basketball lockout, a sports agent (André Holland) pitches a rookie basketball client on an intriguing and controversial business proposition. Soderbergh’s new film also features Zazie Beetz, Sonja Sohn, Zachary Quinto, Kyle MacLachlan, and Bill Duke and was written by Moonlight co-screenwriter Tarell Alvin McCraney.

Absence

Ekta Mittal

Absence

2018|

India|

80 minutes

The waves of migration from rural regions of India to the cities gets a lyrical portrait in Ekta Mittal’s exquisitely crafted look at longing and loss.

Flight of a Bullet

Beata Bubenec

Flight of a Bullet

2017|

Russia / Latvia|

80 minutes

Shot in one harrowing take, Bubenec’s tense handheld dispatch from embattled Eastern Ukraine is a window into how the bloodshed of war pervades life and aggravates and enables male aggression.

The Hidden City

Victor Moreno

The Hidden City

2018|

Spain|

80 minutes

Deep below Madrid, tunnels of all sorts keep the city running, whether storm drains or subways or other subterranean systems. Moreno’s mesmerizing underground city symphony takes us into an unknown world of darkness and glimmering activity.

Jessica Forever

Caroline Poggi

Jessica Forever

2018|

France|

97 minutes|

French and English with English subtitles

Jessica is the bold leader and den mother to an adopted gang of militaristic, orphaned teenage boys in this portrait of bereft teenage masculinity that feels vivid in its science fiction.

The Lincoln Cycle

Benjamin Chapin

The Lincoln Cycle

1917|

USA|

215 minutes

This remarkable series of 10 short silent dramas by John M. Stahl, produced by Benjamin Chapin as a vehicle for his performance as Abraham Lincoln, are structured entirely around memory and recollections of the past.

Los Reyes

Bettina Perut

Spanish with English subtitles
Los Reyes

2018|

Chile / Germany|

78 minutes

Los Reyes (“The Kings”) watches Fútbol and Chola, a furry shepherd mix and some kind of labrador, respectively, as they hang out, play, and generally coexist with the people who are also hanging out and playing on the lawns and concrete ramps of Chile’s first skate park in Santiago.

Los Silencios

Beatriz Seigner

Los Silencios

2018|

Brazil|

88 minutes|

Portuguese and Spanish with English subtitles

Brazilian writer/director Beatriz Seigner’s setting is the island borderlands between Brazil, Colombia, and Peru, where Colombian emigrants live in a liminal state. Joining their numbers are new arrivals Amparo and her two young children, rebuilding their lives from the ground up.

Up the Mountain

Yang Zhang

Up the Mountain

2018|

China|

126 minutes|

Mandarin with English subtitles

In Yang Zhang’s visually dazzling documentary, what could have been an amusing look at a painter’s rural school and the older villagers he mentors deepens into a moving and detailed look at family and community life cycles.

Warlock

Edward Dmytryk

Warlock

1959|

USA|

122 minutes

In Edward Dmytryk’s ’Scope Western, the mining town of Warlock is at the mercy of a band of rogue cowboys, until citizens engage the sharpshooting services of Clay Blaisedell (Henry Fonda), accompanied by right-hand man Tom Morgan (Anthony Quinn).

Yara

Abbas Fahdel

Yara

2018|

Lebanon / Iraq / France|

101 minutes|

Arabic with English subtitles

In the latest from Iraqi-French filmmaker Abbas Fahdel, a remote valley in northern Lebanon is the setting for a drama in which teenage Yara (Michelle Wehbe) lives and works with her hardscrabble grandmother (Mary Alkady) on a cliffside farm, and falls for a young hiker, Elias (Elias Freifer).

Honeysuckle Rose

Jerry Schatzberg

35mm
Honeysuckle Rose

1980|

USA|

119 minutes

Jerry Schatzberg’s rarely screened Honeysuckle Rose stars Willie Nelson as a touring country music singer, and was shot by the late Robby Müller who gorgeously realized works for directors ranging from Wim Wenders to Jim Jarmusch to Lars von Trier to Barbet Schroeder.

Film Comment Talk: Laszlo Nemes

The director of the opening-night film of Film Comment Selects, Sunset, who won an Academy Award winner for Son of Saul, discusses the boundary-pushing technique of his filmmaking and approach to history in an illustrated talk with clips.

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Film Comment’s festival of movies returns in its 19th edition with a selection of titles curated by the magazine’s editors, offering strikingly bold visions, mixing New York premieres of new films and long-unseen older titles that deserve the big-screen treatment. As evidenced by such past selections as Antonio Méndez Esparza’s Life and Nothing More, Terrence Malick’s Voyage of Time, Claire Denis’s Trouble Every Day, Olivier Assayas’s demonlover, Park Chan-wook’s Oldboy, Kathryn Bigelow’s The Hurt Locker, Werner Herzog’s Cave of Forgotten Dreams, Christian Petzold’s Phoenix, and Terence Davies’s Sunset Song, these are films that play by their own rules, works of considered artistry that reflect the philosophy of a magazine that has been essential for film lovers for more than 50 years.

See Film Comment‘s coverage of the lineup here.

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