John Berger and Robert Kramer. An affinity between the critic and the filmmaker developed around the question of resistance.

Toggle the menu Feature The Chorus in Our Heads, or Pier Paolo Pasolini. The critic offers a powerful meditation on ...

To celebrate the upcoming 50th Anniversary of the Film Society of Lincoln Center, Film Comment will be making some classic pieces from our archive available online. This week, read Molly Haskell’s ...

“Corrupt and phosphorescent prettiness” is my favorite phrase ever written about Bette Davis. Graham Greene, who could snark with the best of them when he disliked an actress, captured her unique ...

One of the most important new voices to have emerged in British cinema in the last decade, Joanna Hogg (who was born in 1960) has so far written and directed three films in which the Forsterian ...

This article is part of a series of interviews conducted at the 2019 EnergaCAMERIMAGE International Film Festival in Toruń, Poland. A Zed & Two Noughts (Peter Greenaway, 1985) An Honorary Award ...

In the Italian thriller Salvo, the hit man of the title (Saleh Bakri) forges an unlikely connection with Rita (Sara Serraiocco), the blind sister of the man he is hired to kill. Two extended set ...

Art of the Real selection Manakamana screens Saturday, April 12th at the Film Society of Lincoln Center. Manakamana was filmed on the cable car built to transport devotees of the Hindu goddess ...

David Cronenberg’s approach to directing Maps to the Stars, screenwriter Bruce Wagner’s latest baleful vision of contemporary Hollywood’s moral vacuum, was to treat it as an anthropologist might treat ...

Into the woods: the director of The Vanquishing of the Witch Baba Yaga discusses her visually sumptuous exploration of the past inside the present Jessica Oreck’s third feature is a mesmeric journey ...

After playing the New York Film Festival, Small Change will be released here by Roger Corman’s New World Pictures, which handled the successful U.S. release of Truffaut’s previous film, The Story of ...

Our Best Undistributed Films list, voted on by Film Comment contributors worldwide, recognizes the new films that were viewed—at festivals, or elsewhere—in 2024 but did not have U.S. distribution at ...