Erika Balsom is a reader in film studies at King’s College London and the co-editor of Feminist Worldmaking and the Moving ...

Walks beside me: an inclusive, elastic understanding of modern queer lives emerges across Dag Johan Haugerud’s Sex/Dreams/Love trilogy ...

Film Comment hosted the author Malcolm Harris for a special event celebrating the launch of his latest book, What’s Left: ...

Heroes and villains: the festival largely made good on its promise to show socially relevant works from independent and early ...

In his office at Walt Disney Studios in Burbank, California, the 32-year-old actor is courteous and humorous, shrugging off the future as capable of taking care of itself. Charming and intelligent, ...

This article appeared in the May 21, 2025 edition of The Film Comment Letter, our free weekly newsletter featuring original film criticism and writing. Sign up for the Letter here. Nouvelle Vague ...

Primal scream: Flaming Creatures, Jack Smith’s spectacle of intense queer desire, is one of the most beautiful of all experimental films ...

The results are now in for our 2024 poll of Film Comment’s contributors! On this page, you’ll find our list of the 20 best films that were released either theatrically or virtually in 2024 in the ...

If the first wave of posthumous publications collecting and recontextualizing the creative life of Chris Marker tells us anything, it is that 12 years after the death of this self-described “bricoleur ...

This article appeared in the February 23, 2024 edition of The Film Comment Letter, our free weekly newsletter featuring original film criticism and writing. Sign up for the Letter here. Stay up to ...

The Woman on the Beach (Jean Renoir, 1947, U.S.) – Photochemical Restoration Restored by the Library of Congress and The Film Foundation. The restoration was done by YCM Laboratories and the audio ...

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 ...