
Samuel Maoz made Lebanon to make sense of his own experiences as a soldier in the Lebanese war of the 1980s. Montana Wojczuk assesses the film and addresses the various gestation period for clear narratives that deal with traumatic events in history.
Author archives for Montana Wojczuk
Lebanon by Samuel Maoz
PODCAST: Tim Hetherington and Sebastian Junger

Montana Wojczuk interviews Sebastian Junger and Tim Hetherington about their film, RESTREPO, which won the 2010 Sundance Grand Jury Prize for Documentary. RESTREPO documents Junger and Hetherington’s experience as journalists in the Korengal Valley in Afghanistan, at the American military outpost of the same name, deep in Taliban-controlled territory. [...]
An Interview with Bahman Ghobadi
Podcast with Harmony Korine at the NYFF

There was a mood surrounding Harmony Korine’s new film Trash Humpers that started long before the lights went down. The mostly 20-30 something audience wore their best casual cool—flannels and leather jackets on the women and men with stylish hats and ironic facial hair. In that way fashion comes ’round on itself it felt oddly very much like 1995. People kept saying how happy they were to see each other, it had been so long, and I’ve heard so much about you. I got the feeling a lot of Korine’s friends had turned out. At times it felt more like a house party than a movie premiere.
Premiering Today at Film Forum: Lucretia Martel’s The Headless Woman
Jem Cohen

Our intrepid film correspondent Montana Wojczuk caught up with Jem Cohen for this Podcast. They had a broad ranging discussion covering topics from 8-mm film, to Jeff Koons.
Prepare to Meet Thy Odd: Punk, Folk, and Jem Cohen

Something about the combination of watching a miner’s son wail and a skinny kid writhing to his own beat was absolutely heartbreaking.
Stay the Same, Never Change: Mumblecore Cinema and The Essay Film

For the past several years I’ve been studiously avoiding mumblecore cinema, not because it’s low-budget or uses amateur actors, in other words not because I’m a blow-things-up junkie, but because it bored me.
Interview With Wendy and Lucy Author Jon Raymond
Jon Raymond is the author of two books, the dark adventure tale Half Life and a truly incandescent short story collection, Livability.




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Film Comment Selects: Tales from the Golden Age