On screen, the late singer-songwriter’s characters were peroxide angels, rhinestone cowgirls, and doe-eyed working girls with hearts of gold ...

Toukhy’s Woman Unknown and Lee Chang-dong’s Possible Love have emerged from what has otherwise been the festival’s weakest ...

Jordan Cronk and Öykü Sofuoğlu discuss Queer Edward II, A Day in the Life of Jo: Chapter Phaedra, DAU, and more ...

Bilge Ebiri and Guy Lodge join to discuss Danny Boyle’s Ink, Lee Chang-dong’s Possible Love, and Robert Greene’s Too Much Sugar ...

Welcome to the second issue of the new Film Comment. We’ve been thrilled by your support since we launched the inaugural Summer 2026 issue in May (which you can read here), and we’re excited to keep ...

Cannes 2026 has arrived, and the Film Comment crew is on the ground, ready to cut through the noise with dispatches, interviews, Podcasts, a special Cannes Critics’ Grid, and much more. This year’s ...

Apparently, the world is a less political place than it was. That’s what you might have concluded, given how Cannes kicked off this year. In the last edition’s opening ceremony, Robert De Niro ...

Jonathan Romney and Tim Grierson debate festival premieres Oasis: Don’t Look Back in Anger, Woman Unknown, and more ...

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This week and next, Film Comment is reporting from the picturesque shores of the Lido di Venezia, where the Venice Film Festival takes place each year. This year’s edition features new films by many ...

Around the late 1980s, the Hungarian filmmaker Márta Mészáros was contemplating making a movie about Marilyn Monroe. It would have been new territory. Her best-known movies had until then centered not ...

There is perhaps no cinematic history as precarious as that of the American avant-garde, where the likes of Barry Gerson—a truly self-taught polymath whose art encompasses 16mm films, photo collages, ...