John Early’s remarkable directorial debut filters the ravages of an eating disorder through the funny-yet-sincere lens of ...

What does it take to make a film maudit? Bong Joon Ho’s futuristic train story Snowpiercer pulls into U.S. theatrical stations this week preceded by several months of speculation on the likelihood ...

Once upon a time, all that serious film buffs knew about Italian cinema di genere was that it was a vast wasteland of “kiss kiss, bang bang” for undiscriminating viewers who, well into the Seventies, ...

Hatley's doc Ain’t in It for My Health lets us hang out with one talented, immensely likeable musician A few years before he succumbed to throat cancer in April of 2012, Levon Helm proudly exclaimed ...

The family relationship between still photography and film is intimate and rivalrous; each, at times, seems to envy the qualities that are unique to the other. The Iranian director Abbas Kiarostami ...

In March 2020, a few days into New York’s COVID-19 lockdown, the visual artist Meriem Bennani posted a one and a half–minute clip to her Instagram captioned “2 Lizards Ep 1,” following it with seven ...

The animator’s dark, nuanced body of work functioned as a counterweight to Disney's brightly-lit dominance of the 1980s and ...

The results are in for our 2021 poll of Film Comment’s contributors and colleagues! Our Top 20 lists in both the Released and Undistributed categories feature original appreciations from critics, as ...

I recently wrote to a colleague in Paris that I thought Radu Jude—the prolific author of farcical tragicomedies about our contemporary lives under surveillance, diminished by rapacious capital, ...

Perhaps best known as the host of Ways of Seeing, the 1972 BBC program that introduced a generation to the ideological analysis of visual art, John Berger was one of the most important writers of the ...

If you can’t afford the preposterous price of admission to a World Cup match at MetLife in New Jersey but still want an immersive soccer experience this summer, the Guggenheim might have you covered.