Water colors: the Argentine filmmaker pens and paints a tribute to Hong Sangsoo’s latest “river film," By the Stream ...

Roman Polanski‘s J'accuse, which dramatizes the infamous Dreyfus Affair, premiered to great acclaim in France—but soon led to ...

I don’t believe in the idea of guilty pleasures because I don’t think you should feel guilty about liking anything. (My boyfriend on the other hand says he definitely feels guilty about loving B.A.P.S ...

Gone with the Wind Two brothel madams (or as close as Hollywood dared get to them), one a lurid gash of pornographic pink throbbing against William Cameron Menzies’ mourning-black backdrop of charred ...

By Grady Hendrix in the March-April 2020 Issue P erpetually out of step, Shinya Tsukamoto goes where his gut leads him, handcrafting freaked-out sci-fi nightmares from 8mm, 16mm, 35mm, digital video, ...

Outer LimitsMysterious and soulful, Virgil Vernier’s debut fiction feature has its eyes on the night skies and its feet firmly planted on concrete. Somewhere in a Paris banlieue backcountry of ...

The Late Mathias Pascal The french studio Films Albatros was formed by Russian immigrants after the 1917 Revolution. Studio head Alexander Kamenka championed Jacques Feyder in particular, and this ...

The greatest love of all: the top 20 films of 2016, as selected by our esteemed contributors ...

The results are in for our 2023 poll of Film Comment’s contributors! On this page, you’ll find our list of the best films that were released either theatrically or virtually in 2023 in the United ...

The results are in for our 2022 poll of Film Comment’s contributors! Our Top 20 lists in both the Released and Undistributed categories feature original appreciations from our critics, as well as ...

The results are in for our 2019 poll of Film Comment's contributors and editors! Our top 20 list includes excerpts from our features, reviews, and interviews about these films from across the year, as ...

First class: the top 20 films of 2015, as selected by our contributors, colleagues, and collaborators ...