Film Comment Number 1

SPECIAL SECTIONS The Decade in Review = 36 Another 10 years come and gone-it’s time to do what critics do best : assess, reassess, catalog, rinse, repeat! • The Best 50 Films and Top 25 New Filmmakers • Essays on the 2010s, including Dennis Lim on key trends, Devika Girish on becoming a critic in an overwhelming era, Amy Taubin on the folly and faith of list-making, and, as a palate-cleanser, R. Emmet Sweeney on the best hand-to-hand combat • Curated lists on the decade by contributors, programmers, and filmmakers Best of the Year = 52 • The Best Films of 2019, plus arguments for each by the magazine’s contributors • Top 20 Unreleased Films, Personal Bests, and Editors’ Picks • And for our annual wrap-up essay, Nicolas Rapold tries a little tenderness FEATURES Pedro Costa by Jordan Cronk = 24 For years, the Portuguese director has been returning to the shantytown of Fontainhas, outside of Lisbon. Now, focusing intently on the extraordinary actress/ character Vitalina, Costa has made his most beautiful, haunting film yet Martin Eden by Phoebe Chen =32 Italian filmmaker Pietro Marcello breaks through with this adaptation of a jack London novel that becomes a seductive study of 20th-century progress and torpor and a bittersweet vision of becoming One-Scene Wonders by Steven Mears 60 It only takes a moment: actors who make a huge impression in a very short period of time have created some of the best (pocket-sized) performances in recent years-masterpieces in miniature DEPARTMENTS & COLUMNS The Pre-Show = 6 News, Inspired: Angela Schanelec, Release Me, Directions: Albert Serra, Restoration Row, and more Critics’ Choice = 12 Critics rate and comment on new releases Make It Real = 14 Overlooked docs from 2019 Art and craft = 16 Alex Ross Perry on screenwriting Off the page = 18 H.G.Wells and The Passionate Friends(1949) Scare Tactics = 20 Silvano Agosti’s In the Highest of Skies Playing Along = 22 An interview with composer Nicholas britell In Memoriam = 66 The decade’s departed The Big Screen = 68 The Traitor, Beanpole, 1917, The Assistant, and more Home Movies = 74 DVD, streaming, and beyond Readings = 78 Tony Conrad: Writings, Sidney Lument: A Life, and more Graphic Detail = 80 Best repertory posters of the decade

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