Film Comment hosted the author Malcolm Harris for a special event celebrating the launch of his latest book, What’s Left: ...

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 ...

This article appeared in the May 21, 2025 edition of The Film Comment Letter, our free weekly newsletter featuring original film criticism and writing. Sign up for the Letter here. Nouvelle Vague ...

Legendary scholar and critic Tom Gunning has changed the way we think about film history and the future of the medium, profoundly influencing generations of academics, artists, and cinephiles.

At that performance, director Robert Rossen was impressed, and later cast Hackman in a small role in LILITH with Warren Beatty.Three years later, Beatty remembered Hackman and cast him in BONNIE AND ...

Nosferatu, the new film by Robert Eggers, has been the talk of the movie-town since its release on Christmas Day.With his remake of F.W. Murnau’s 1922 classic of the same name, Eggers has become the ...

This article is part of Film Comment’s Best of 2024 coverage. Read all the lists here.. At a recent panel at Anthology Film Archives about new scans and restorations of the films of Sergei Parajanov, ...

The results are in for our 2024 poll of Film Comment's contributors and colleagues!On this page you’ll find a selection of the individual ballots submitted by our voters for the Best Films of 2024 ...

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 June 7, 2024 edition of The Film Comment Letter, our free weekly newsletter featuring original film criticism and writing. Sign up for the Letter here. Chime (Kiyoshi ...

Every year, Film at Lincoln Center honors a luminary of the film industry with the Chaplin Award.This year’s honoree is a beloved screen icon: the Dude, the Starman, the legend—Jeff Bridges. As critic ...