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Dr. Tanya Haj-Hassan, who volunteered in a Gaza hospital, details some of the horrific scenes she witnessed and says the DNC must hear from Palestinians about the devastating impact of the U.S.-backed Israeli assault on the territory.

Katie Kirkland (Katie) writes on MY HOMELAND IS NOT A SUITCASE: ANNEMARIE JACIR, EMILY JACIR, and DAR JACIR FOR ARTS AND RESEARCH, a new series Anthology Film Archives exploring the Palestinian sisters’ films, preservation work, and more. filmcomment.com/blog/views-fro…

The luminary herself, Katie

"we inherit the tragedy of losing a just fight. we want to reverse that loss, to give our parents back what is theirs and reclaim what is ours. this is how we learn to love." an outstanding essay by Tareq Baconi about the intimate legacies of the Nakba: nybooks.com/articles/2024/…

FEMA said last week it faces a nearly $9 billion shortfall for Hurricane Helene recovery efforts. On the same day, Israel announced a $8.7 billion weapons package from the US. Our tax dollars are funding Israeli war crimes instead of the investments we desperately need here.

Matías Piñeiro’s YOU BURN ME and Jem Cohen’s LITTLE, BIG, AND FAR are both films that revel in the surfaces of things, Michael Blair (Michael Blair) writes. Now online from our New York Film Festival coverage: filmcomment.com/blog/scratchin…

“LITTLE, BIG, and FAR is densely packed with discursive detail and free-flowing sections blending archival photographs, street photography, camera-exposure tricks, and roving music from the drummer Jim White.” Michael Blair on Jem Cohen’s new feature. filmcomment.com/blog/scratchin…

Satellite image of how the Israeli military is surrounding Jabalia north of Gaza (massacres have been relentless for more than a week and already one journalist has been killed and two injured, one of whom will never be able to walk again because of his injury). Israel is

Those who were bombed and burned in the tents yesterday, endured hunger, thirst, cold, heat, insects, lack of sleep, sleeping on the sand, lack of cleanliness, and endured everything that no one in the world can endure in one day. They endured it for 373 days, and in the end they

I talked to Mike Leigh about his new film, Hard Truths, and his filmmaking over the years, for Film Comment Magazine: filmcomment.com/blog/interview…

Was a real thrill to participate in this, especially with the great benjamin 🇵🇸, who first shared with me the incredible films of Robert Kramer

Please sign Missing Movies' petition to the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences asking to rehire the 16 employees unjustly fired from the Academy Film Archive and the Margaret Herrick Library. change.org/Rehire_AMPAS_16

wrote about the cinema of the portuguese revolution for film comment

The complete results of our Best of 2024 Poll are now online: ✨ Our Top 20 Films of the Year, w/ our contributors’ appreciations ✨ Our Top 10 Undistributed Films of the Year, w/ our contributors’ appreciations ✨ Individual Ballots from 115+ contributors filmcomment.com/best-films-of-…

12. A TRAVELER’S NEEDS “Hong’s mesmerizing 31st feature continually finds surprise in simple, concrete sounds and images.” - Michael Blair

From my new Substack, here's a free piece about a French bistro that saw the light and moved out of the Meat Packing District in the 90s robertsietsema.substack.com/p/a-flourishin…

🚨Gorgeous Max Nelson essay on Lynch - far exceeds the task of doing justice to his singular vision newleftreview.org/sidecar/posts/…

ICYMI: Read Michael Blair’s dispatch from this year’s True/False (True/False Film Fest), which situates the annual nonfiction film festival’s place within a Missouri whose political landscape has transformed in the last few decades. filmcomment.com/blog/the-best-…