Colonialism has always been the subtext of the Argentine filmmaker's work. In her first documentary feature, it is the text ...

The multi-hyphenate star of The Christophers and Mother Mary reflects on what it’s like to do it all It was June 2020, three ...

Old and New Beginnings. The critic revisits his years as a Paris and London correspondent for the magazine. by Jonathan ...

In character: the recipient of the 51st Chaplin Award discusses key roles, his approach to his craft, and the vision of the ...

Sleight of hand: the recipient of Film at Lincoln Center’s 51st Chaplin Award has consistently performed a magic trick in ...

Sirk’s next leave-taking, two decades later, was less momentous perhaps but even more astonishing. After having made the most successful movie in the history of Universal to that date (Imitation of ...

(Nikita Mikhalkov, Russia, 2007) For numerically titled Russian movies of the moment, stick with 4 instead of 12. Old soul Nikita Mikhalkov’s appropriation of the 12 Angry Men template is a bloated ...

For instance, what, in the United States in 2010, made a then-unknown 19-year-old Jennifer Lawrence so riveting in Winter’s Bone, the film that vaulted her—now the highest paid actress in ...

If Satyajit Ray was the suitable boy of Indian art cinema—unthreatening, career-oriented, reliably tasteful—Ritwik Ghatak, his contemporary and principal rival, was its problem child. Where Ray’s ...

Premised on illusion and promising endless reanimation, cinema is often called the ghostliest of mediums. Ghosts are themselves cinematic in essence, automatic disruptions in space and time. Movies ...

Of course, Grahame was by this time largely a figure of celluloid memory: she was the flirtatious goofus of Zinnemann’s Oklahoma!, but, more typically, she was the Ur-noir siren (of Lang’s The Big ...

The results are in for our 2019 poll of Film Comment's contributors and editors! Our top 20 list includes excerpts from our features, reviews, and interviews about these films from across the year, as ...