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 ...

Here today: a new festival defiantly reclaims a lost history, bringing contemporary and classic Cambodian cinema to a local ...

1. Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia Sam Peckinpah, 1974. 2. Claire’s Knee Eric Rohmer, 1970. 3. Faces John Cassavetes, 1968. 4. Eyes Without a Face Georges Franju, 1960. 5. Eyes Wide Shut Stanley ...

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 ...

Though Leos Carax’s gesamtkunstwerk teeters and sways under the weight of its many contrivances, it somehow, against all odds, manages to take flight.Annette is a singular work: part rock-opera, part ...

With Holy Motors, Carax has roared back to form, and maybe even surpassed himself.This full-throttle cinematic fever dream stars Carax’s longtime muse Denis Lavant as 11 different characters—or maybe ...

Ari Aster does not consider himself a horror director. He’ll have to keep explaining why, though, as his debut feature Hereditary is one of the most effective examples of the genre in recent years.

A glib formula might describe Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood as combining the middle-ager, last-chance gambit of Jackie Brown and the lurid revisionist urge to punch up history in Inglourious Basterds ...

The title of Charlotte Wells’s film invokes a balm used to soothe skin scorched by an unforgiving sun. Again and again in Aftersun, the characters partake in the restorative rituals of this salve; in ...

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 ...

“I don’t know if you’re a detective or a pervert,” remarks Sandy (Laura Derm) to Jeffrey (Kyle MacLachlan) at a crucial juncture in the harrowing new David Lynch picture, Blue Velvet.We never are told ...