Train tracks: the Austrian experimental filmmaker discusses using found footage to interrogate and play with the past ...

Stop that train: the recursions of a painful past preoccupied many of the best films at this year’s edition of the Czech ...

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 ...

Chance unites two people as low in the social hierarchy as it gets: French shoeshiner Marcel Marx (André Wilms) and African immigrant boy Idrissa (Blondin Miguel). The youngster has just avoided the ...

The decade's best avant-garde cinematic offerings, as ranked by 46 teachers, critics, and programmers.

Yes, I understand. You know I’m compiling a book on the directing of the non-actor. I am meeting many directors. The book is primarily a way for me to organize my own thinking and to take advantage of ...

sex, lies, and videotape “I always think that everyone else is having a really good time, and I’m not having anywhere near as good a time as they are.” —Steven Soderbergh, in Cannes, before winning ...

By Ari Aster in the May-June 2020 Issue O ver the years, Elem Klimov’s monolithic Come and See (1985) has gradually evolved from much- coveted cult object (long available in the States as a color- ...

After the film’s screening at Cannes, Film Comment’ s Wang Muyan sat down with Yinan to discuss the meaning and appeal of crime stories, the director’s early exposure to cinema, the theme of illusory ...

In The Master, Paul Thomas Anderson tells a big American story about two men who can't see past each other ...

Since her 1955 debut feature La Pointe Courte, the work of Agnès Varda has managed to reflect the interior and exterior worlds of her and her subjects in playful, insightful ways, regardless of genre ...

Text and image: In this 1996 interview, the filmmaker rambles with purpose through his foundational filmography ...