Walks beside me: an inclusive, elastic understanding of modern queer lives emerges across Dag Johan ...

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

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

50 Best Undistributed Films of 2012 By Film Comment on December 13, 2012 ...

By David Sterritt in the July-August 2000 Issue Abbas Kiarostami deserves more credit than any other single director for fueling the recent rise of Iranian cinema, arguably the most dramatic film ...

By Jordan Cronk in the January-February 2020 Issue E arly in Pedro Costa’s 2014 film Horse Money, a Cape Verdean woman named Vitalina recounts in detail the heartrending story of her late arrival to ...

After the film’s screening at Cannes, Film Comment’ s Wang Muyan sat down with Yinan to discuss the meaning and appeal of crime stories, the director’s early exposure to cinema, the theme of illusory ...

Like many of Aki Kaurismäki’s films, Fallen Leaves is a slender tale of underclass melancholy. There’s little dialogue but plentiful music, often emanating from a jukebox. All of the furnishings seem ...

By Gavin Smith in the January-February 1998 Issue The elusive search for peace, for equilibrium, has always been latent in the films of Martin Scorsese. But still, what does it mean for American ...

Present Tense is a column by Sheila O’Malley that reflects on the intersections of film, literature, art, and culture. Kurt Russell in Miracle (2004, Gavin O’Connor) “It was a sliver of the Cold War ...

“There are many ways in which Zama, [Lucrecia] Martel’s first feature in nine years, represents a departure for the Argentine writer-director,” I wrote in “When All Is Lost,” my September/October 2017 ...

Two artists entering full bloom — Maren Ade (with our first non-American #1 since 2012’s Holy Motors) and Barry Jenkins—topped our annual survey, next to a redoubtable team-up of Paul Verhoeven and ...