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 ...

Tom Hanks’s confident demeanor is as daunting as Mt. Rushmore and just as effective in discouraging speculation about who those men really are. In his office at Walt Disney Studios in Burbank, ...

By Chris Fujiwara in the September-October 2005 Issue. Mikio Naruse was known during his lifetime as a great director of women. “To act in his films was really an honor for actresses,” said Yoko ...

Every grain of sand: Denis Villeneuve’s blockbuster remains, for all its bombastic bricolage of religious and cinematic iconography, a stolidly professional and surprisingly unimaginative adaptation ...

This article is part of Film Comment’s Best of 2023 coverage. Read all the lists here.. One of the benefits of the streaming-industrial complex and its rapacious and insatiable lust for content is ...

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 ...

By Martin Scorsese in the September-October 1978 Issue. This is the film lover’s list. It’s like a cushion: you can fall asleep thinking of these pictures. If you’re uncomfortable you can lean over ...

This article appeared in the November 2, 2023 edition of The Film Comment Letter, our free weekly newsletter featuring original film criticism and writing. Sign up for the Letter here. Vampyr (Carl ...

If this is the new American movie teenager, she’s very different from the ones we’re used to. Since they started showing up on screen after the Second World War, the teenagers of American film have ...