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 ...

The results are in for our 2019 poll of Film Comment's contributors and editors! Our top 20 list includes excerpts from our features, reviews, and interviews about these films from across the year, as ...

By Amy Taubin in the November-December 2019 Issue T his interview with the director of Portrait of a Lady on Fire took place at Cannes, where the film premiered in competition.

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

Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation The fifth film in a franchise might not sound like the place to go for directorial personality, but Christopher McQuarrie’s Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation is a ...

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 ...

This past fall, the editors, staff, and some friends of this magazine sent out letters to a blue-ribbon panel of critics, filmmakers, authors; archivists—people with a serious personal and ...

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 ...

By Louis Black in the July-August 1980 Issue A few years ago, you and Roger Ebert were preparing a movie with the Sex Pistols. What happened to it?

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 ...