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

Camera comes in low over an immense Western lake, its destination apparently a small island at the center that seems to consist of nothing but treetops. Draw nearer, then sweep over and pass the ...

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 ...

In some ways Kundun seems a companion piece to The Last Temptation of Christ: both films begin with the image of a sleeper awakening, both are about the emergence of dormant divinity in human guise, ...

Spike Lee will be honored by Film at Lincoln Center at the 46th Chaplin Award Gala. [Radio Raheem’s theme in Spike Lee’s Do the Right Thing] It’s the hottest day of summer in Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn, where ...

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 ...

Editing has very simple origins: a camera couldn’t hold much film. Even if it could, a given “good” take isn’t good for very long. If you want to make a film that lasts more than the length of a take ...

To what degree were you thinking about the many movies that have been made about a male artist and the woman who inspired him? I didn’t have to think much about that because basically we know by heart ...

Going express: the filmmaker discusses his contemporary reimagining of Kurosawa’s classic, working again with Denzel Washington, and what makes New York City such a rich setting and subject ...

It hardly seems possible—given the mechanically reproducible nature of film as a medium (and hence its mobility), the enormous popularity of his films in their time, and what now seems their ...

Though he’s still never been invited to present one of his own films at the festival, Christopher Nolan became the center of attention during the first weekend of Cannes this year. On Saturday, his ...