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 ...

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 ...

Sophie Huber’s unconventional documentary Harry Dean Stanton: Partly Fiction is a kinetic portrait of the actor’s mesmerizing face and slow charm, punctuated with handsome black-and-white vignettes in ...

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 ...

I understand that a lot of the work you’ll be showing at Anthology hasn’t yet been seen and that there’s quite a lot of it. What is the organizing logic of the “New, but Old” program, which will ...

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 ...

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 ...

“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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...