On fire: at this year’s edition of the festival devoted to rediscoveries and restorations, distinctions between high and low ...

New scene: the incarcerated journalist shares her painstaking journey to teach herself screenwriting in prison ...

Benh Zeitlin explains the unique creative alchemy behind his equally singular modern folk tale Beasts of the Southern Wild.

By Richard T. Jameson in the July-August 1980 Issue T he author, who expressed his gratitude to Kathleen Murphy for her contribution to this article, has taken the liberty of discussing scenes that ...

By Shonni Enelow in the September-October 2016 Issue I t’s impossible to talk about acting without talking about culture. The relationship between cultural performance and professional performance is ...

All of which explains why a touch of Enthronement Syndrome has crept up on Kiarostami, with the worshipful attitude of some devotees sparking a backlash from others who question whether this emperor ...

The results are in for our 2023 poll of Film Comment’s contributors! On this page, you’ll find our list of the best films that were released either theatrically or virtually in 2023 in the United ...

By Amy Taubin in the September-October 2007 Issue S et in London within the ritualized underworld of the Russian mafia—the dread vory v zakone —David Cronenberg’s Eastern Promises couldn’t be further, ...

Like life, Million Dollar Baby will take you places you don't necessarily expect to go. Therefore, you are strongly cautioned against reading the following Q & A with Clint Eastwood until after seeing ...

By Donald Chase in the September-October 1997 Issue Not long before she died in 1981 at age 57, Gloria Grahame, who had acted in films signed by Frank Capra, Nicholas Ray, Josef von Sternberg, ...

The title of Christopher Nolan’s extraordinarily ambitious science-fiction film Interstellar is three-dimensionally flat and far less descriptive than it should be. Pointing only to exterior space and ...

By Godfrey Cheshire in the January-February 2012 Issue I n February 2011, Asghar Farhadi’s drama of marital entropy A Separation cleaned up at the Berlin Film Festival, becoming the first Iranian film ...