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 ...

It’s all over. Well, not quite, but the 2010s did come to an end on a note of pessimism about the world, and one of resignation about the film industry’s consolidation and glut of choice. At the same ...

Read this story as part of the archived issue. The films you’ve made since beginning Histoire(s) du cinéma are more emotional than anything you’ve done before. Each feels like an attempt at ...

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 ...

Read this story as part of the archived issue. Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the ...

Cannes 2026 is nearing its close, but the Film Comment crew has not slowed down one bit as we continue to cut through the noise with dispatches, interviews, Podcasts, a special Cannes Critics’ Grid, ...

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This year on the Croisette, it’s easy to lose count of the number of logos that precede a film’s opening credits, representing money patchworked together from across multiple countries, each ...

Home truth: the director of Mountains May Depart explains why it's his most personal film yet (and analyzes its Pet Shop Boys anthem) With Mountains May Depart, Jia Zhang-ke turns his powers of social ...

The group moves into the song’s funereal chorus—“Glory-O, Glory-O, to the bold Fenian men”—after a cut to a wide shot reveals them less huddled together than lined up, one by one, along the length of ...