The Film Comment Letter: The Rebel��s Cinema—Frantz Fanon on Screen 📽️

August 28, 2024 The Film Comment Letter: The Rebel��s Cinema—Frantz Fanon on Screen 📽️ View in browser   |   filmcomment.com August 28, 2024 WEBSITE   |   PODCAST   |   LATEST Dear Readers, Today's Letter, as you may have noticed, is arriving a bit earlier than usual to your inbox. Our Film Comment Live series,  The Rebel's Cinema—Frantz Fanon on Screen , kicks off at Film at Lincoln Center tomorrow with a screening of Michelangelo Antonioni's The Passenger (1975). From August 29 to September 1, we'll be screening films and hosting conversations at four venues across New York City, exploring the cinematic legacy of the seminal anti-colonial writer, psychiatrist, and revolutionary. The series is co-presented with Adam Shatz, the author of a fascinating new biography of Fanon. By way of a program introduction, we've commissioned a new essay by Adam contextualizing Fanon's relationship with cinema—and cinema's relationship with Fanon's ideas. As Adam write... read