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 ...

War report: intimate and epic, My Undesirable Friends: Part One follows a small cohort of oppositional journalists in Putin’s Russia during the run-up to the military invasion of Ukraine ...

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 ...

This list is actively updated. Showing art-house, indie, and/or repertory films, ordered by state and then city. Where applicable, parent film organizations are also listed, and * denotes nonprofit. Did ...

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Classical Hollywood fetishism has found a most enchanting ambassador. Farran Smith Nehme of The Self-Styled Siren turns the articulation of cliché and convention into a sport—no surprise she’s chosen ...

Originally published in Libération, March 5, 2003. With thanks to Antoine de Baecque. “What interests me is history, and politics only interests me to the degree that it is the mark history makes on ...

When we met in Rome to talk about his films, it was the Epiphany, the last of the Christmas holidays. The 69-year-old director and his wife, Loredana, had just dragged themselves back to their hotel ...

Grover Lewis died on April 16, 1995, before he could complete this portrait-interview of Timothy Carey for FILM COMMENT. Goodbye, If You Call That Gone —the memoir he had contracted for the previous ...

Once one has accepted the interdependence of comedy and tragedy in his work, it is hard to miss the deeper implications: the picture of man poised, comically or heroically, against an antagonistic ...

On the edge: this year’s competition featured new work from Petzold, Porumboiu, and Hong, as well as new voices from around the world ...