Heroes and villains: the festival largely made good on its promise to show socially relevant works from independent and early ...

Here today: a new festival defiantly reclaims a lost history, bringing contemporary and classic Cambodian cinema to a local ...

1. Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia Sam Peckinpah, 1974. 2. Claire’s Knee Eric Rohmer, 1970. 3. Faces John Cassavetes, 1968. 4. Eyes Without a Face Georges Franju, 1960. 5. Eyes Wide Shut Stanley ...

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 ...

The title of Charlotte Wells’s film invokes a balm used to soothe skin scorched by an unforgiving sun. Again and again in Aftersun, the characters partake in the restorative rituals of this salve; in ...

Two artists entering full bloom — Maren Ade (with our first non-American #1 since 2012’s Holy Motors) and Barry Jenkins—topped our annual survey, next to a redoubtable team-up of Paul Verhoeven and ...

The results are now in for our 2024 poll of Film Comment ’s contributors! On this page, you’ll find our list of the 20 best films that were released either theatrically or virtually in 2024 in the ...

This article appeared in the March 16, 2023 edition of The Film Comment Letter, our free weekly newsletter featuring original film criticism and writing. Sign up for the Letter here. Afire (Christian ...

The most frequent comment one hears about Days of Heaven is that it’s a stunningly beautiful film, which is certainly a tribute to your work as cinematographer on the film. How did Terry Malick choose ...

Oberlin led me into the library and disappeared into the apartment’s silent folds. As I waited, the gray Parisian light impetuously revealed clues to the maitresse de maison’s personality: books by ...

It would be hard to find a more fascinating body of work than Edmond Gréville’s, filmed in both France and Great Britain and utterly foreign to the rules of cinema governing each of these two ...

Present Tense is a column by Sheila O’Malley that reflects on the intersections of film, literature, art, and culture. Sunset Boulevard (Billy Wilder, 1950). In the fifth episode of the celebrated ...