The Film Comment Letter: Rattled by the Rush 🏃‍♀️

September 13, 2024 The Film Comment Letter: Rattled by the Rush 🏃‍♀️ View in browser   |   filmcomment.com September 13, 2024 WEBSITE   |   PODCAST   |   LATEST Dear Readers, We've officially entered the fall festival season, with new films premiering right and left in Venice, Telluride, Toronto, and soon right here in our home base of New York City. Film Comment is, as always, on the ground to bring you fresh takes from all the fests. We kick off today with a dispatch from the Lido di Venezia, where Jordan Cronk was awed by Brady Corbet's go-for-broke The Brutalist , an epic tale about a Hungarian Jewish architect, played by Adrien Brody, who arrives in Pennsylvania after World War II and becomes entangled in the grand ambitions of a wealthy industrialist. Other Venice highlights covered by Jordan include the surveillance thriller Stranger Eyes by Singaporean director Yeo Siew Hua, Alex Ross Perry's prismatic portrait of the iconic '90s band Pavement, read