Best Film Magazines
- blindside8zao
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- g30
- Joined: Wed Nov 03, 2004 10:47 am
- Location: Canada
I'm a longtime reader of Film Comment. It is often quite enjoyable.
I also highly reccomend Film Comment. It's probably the best American film magazine. It focuses on all aspects of cinema, including world, independent, and Hollywood productions, as well as industry related information. The current issue features an article on the 110th anniversary of Shochiku studios, which coincides with their retrospective in NYC this fall.
Cineaste is ok as well.
You can get a US subscription to Sight & Sound. It's pretty expensive though. Some bookstores/newsstands in larger cities carry it, and you can always request it if yours doesn't. Plus, almost all University libraries subscribe to it. SO its not too hard to find.
Cineaste is ok as well.
You can get a US subscription to Sight & Sound. It's pretty expensive though. Some bookstores/newsstands in larger cities carry it, and you can always request it if yours doesn't. Plus, almost all University libraries subscribe to it. SO its not too hard to find.
- ola t
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My favourite is the Canadian magazine Cinema Scope. It only comes out four times a year, though. Most issues are centered on reports from the big festivals. Hollywood is more or less ignored.
- Fletch F. Fletch
- Joined: Tue Nov 02, 2004 3:54 pm
- Location: Provo, Utah
Yes, I would chime in a recommendation for all 3 magazines mentioned above with Film Comment and Sight and Sound being my faves. There used to be a really fantastic UK film mag called Neon which, sadly, is no more. Their layout, format, tone, etc. was really quite good, cheeky humour that I see being used a lot in more recent British film mags.analoguezombie wrote:I also highly reccomend Film Comment. It's probably the best American film magazine. It focuses on all aspects of cinema, including world, independent, and Hollywood productions, as well as industry related information. The current issue features an article on the 110th anniversary of Shochiku studios, which coincides with their retrospective in NYC this fall.
Cineaste is ok as well.
You can get a US subscription to Sight & Sound. It's pretty expensive though. Some bookstores/newsstands in larger cities carry it, and you can always request it if yours doesn't. Plus, almost all University libraries subscribe to it. SO its not too hard to find.
I'd also recommend Video Watchdog (http://www.videowatchdog.com/home/home.html) which is an excellent periodical that exhaustively covers the cult films, horror, sci-fi, etc. with an excellent quality of writing.
- blindside8zao
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- Godot
- Cri me a Tearion
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- kinjitsu
- Joined: Sat Feb 12, 2005 1:39 pm
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It seems impossible to find just one film magazine to satisfy your needs, though publications like Sight & Sound and Film Comment are good starting points, and they generally try to cover all the bases. With the exception of Cahiers, the list of zines below are easy to find at the better newsstands and I usually browse through most of them when I'm at my local Borders or B & N.
American Cinematographer
Cahiers du cinéma In French only - some arhived articles online in English
Film Culture
Filmmaker Magazine
Film Quarterly
Screenwriter
American Cinematographer
Cahiers du cinéma In French only - some arhived articles online in English
Film Culture
Filmmaker Magazine
Film Quarterly
Screenwriter
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e-CAHIERS DU CINÉMA will go online in March! ("e" for "english"!)
Preview availabale here. Year subscription is $45… Good news!
Preview availabale here. Year subscription is $45… Good news!
- Oedipax
- Joined: Wed Nov 03, 2004 8:48 am
- Location: Atlanta
Thanks for posting about this - looks like something I'll definitely want to subscribe to (I do Film Comment as well, great magazine). I really like the integration of video into the page (as it were) in the e-Cahiers stuff.accatone wrote:e-CAHIERS DU CINÉMA will go online in march!!! ("e" for "english"!)
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- jt
- Joined: Thu Nov 30, 2006 9:47 am
- Location: zurich
This is indeed great news. My French has never been good enough to fully enjoy Cahiers.
The web-based presentation is very good indeed, the first time I have considered paying for on online journal.
The translation is also a step above other attempts of the past, while still keeping the typically emotive 'Gallic' flavour...
The web-based presentation is very good indeed, the first time I have considered paying for on online journal.
The translation is also a step above other attempts of the past, while still keeping the typically emotive 'Gallic' flavour...
Tell us what you really think...The expression 'Festival Film' is false, it is unjust, it is disgusting.
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I've been wavering about subscribing to e-Cahiers since it went online, buying a magazine online just seems weird to me, but I guess it's worth it to finally be able to read a whole issue of Cahiers (damn my choice to take German and Latin in school, they've never done a lick of good for me). I just feel like I'll miss being able to take it where I want and read it.
I second the Video Watchdog recommendation, they definitely have the highest-quality writing on cult/horror/sci-fi cinema out there.
I second the Video Watchdog recommendation, they definitely have the highest-quality writing on cult/horror/sci-fi cinema out there.
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- LionelHutz
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- Location: Italy
- LionelHutz
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I subscribe to Sight and Sound and I am not convinced it is worth it. They cover too many things that I am just not really that interested in and it costs a fortune. It is one hundred dollars plus to renew the subscription! I definitely prefer Film Comment and comparatively it is much cheaper.scalesojustice wrote:Much thanks for that recommendation of Film Comment.
I've been dragging my feet on a Sight and Sound sub. for a year now considering it's well over $80. After reading all of this month's Film Comment material online, I'm happy to support them and get in a good film read.
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Sight and Sound has always covered world cinema and has many intelligent writers but it still covers too much Anglo-American trash for my liking- and whereas Cahiers du Cinéma recognised Mizoguchi as the world's greatest director not long back, S+S has not done a single article on him in the time i've been a regular reader/subscriber (late 80's).
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Video Watchdog is, for my money, the most thoughtful and informative film publication that I know of (in English). Film Comment definitely has its moments, but I rarely check it out. Psychotronic was the best of the fanzines, but it seems to have gone under. I get the vast majority of my information and analysis from the web. Aside from VW, I don't know of any print source that can compete with Greencine Daily, Movie City News, David Bordwell's site, this forum, etc.
On a slightly different matter, does anyone know of any film-related publications or sites in Russian or German? Why should Francophones have all the fun?
On a slightly different matter, does anyone know of any film-related publications or sites in Russian or German? Why should Francophones have all the fun?
- malcolm1980
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What about on-line film review sites?
I think the best among the mainstream ones is SlantMagazine: http://www.slantmagazine.com
I think the best among the mainstream ones is SlantMagazine: http://www.slantmagazine.com