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Up, Landmarks, and The Voice of Hind Rajab pierced through the festival’s illusive bubble with lightning bolts of reality ...
Break like the wind: the legendary British rockers are joined by their longtime creative foil, filmmaker Marty DiBergi, to discuss their long, loud career ...
The lay of the land, in the Seventies film, is that there are two types of structure being practiced: dispersal and shallow-boxed space. RAMEAU’S NEPHEW, McCABE AND MRS. MILLER, CELINE AND JULIE GO ...
Outer LimitsMysterious and soulful, Virgil Vernier’s debut fiction feature has its eyes on the night skies and its feet firmly planted on concrete. Somewhere in a Paris banlieue backcountry of ...
Foreign PickBoris Barnet's magical 1936 By the Bluest of Seas is one of the glories of Soviet cinema and, despite the director’s slowly growing reputation, unfortunately still too little known. The ...
Back in the day, Tucson photographer Bob Broder used to string for The Arizona Republic. Eric Kroll, another local—and former Taschen book editor—recently unearthed a stash of negatives Broder shot on ...
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The results are in for our 2022 poll of Film Comment’s contributors! Our Top 20 lists in both the Released and Undistributed categories feature original appreciations from our critics, as well as ...
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 ...
Premised on illusion and promising endless reanimation, cinema is often called the ghostliest of mediums. Ghosts are themselves cinematic in essence, automatic disruptions in space and time. Movies ...
On the edge: this year’s competition featured new work from Petzold, Porumboiu, and Hong, as well as new voices from around the world ...
This interview begins a series with influential cinematographers who attended the 2016 Camerimage International Film Festival of the Art of Cinematography in Bydgoszcz, Poland, in November. Woody told ...