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 addition to premieres in the main Crystal Globe competition and the more experimental Proxima section (about which, more ...

Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey offers up a strangely bloodless vision of Homer’s lively world of men and gods ...

Wild at Heart (David Lynch, 1990). Courtesy of Shutterstock. Mostly, though, I’d just been hot. Bologna’s notoriously under-air-conditioned cinemas struggled to offset the record-breaking heatwave, ...

This week, Film Comment Editor Clinton Krute is in the Czech Republic, reporting on the 60th Karlovy Vary International Film Festival. Located in a picturesque spa town, the fest has long been the ...

For his first feature film after a career of music-video collaborations with artists like Bad Bunny and Rosalía, the elusive and often masked filmmaker known as Stillz (real name: Matías Vásquez) ...

This week, Film Comment Editor Clinton Krute is in the Czech Republic, reporting on the 60th Karlovy Vary International Film Festival. Located in a picturesque spa town, the fest has long been the ...

It could be said that to love a person is to take them seriously, but not too seriously. The same could be said for loving certain works of art. Consider Maddie’s Secret, the feature directorial debut ...

A handful of films won multiple awards over the weekend as the 2016 Sundance Film Festival came to a close. Nate Parker’s The Birth of a Nation—the story of Nat Turner and the 1831 slave ...

Perhaps best known as the host of Ways of Seeing, the 1972 BBC program that introduced a generation to the ideological analysis of visual art, John Berger was one of the most important writers of the ...