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

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

From sidebars to the main event: a (Babette's) feast of offerings from the U.K., Palestine, and beyond Happily, for viewers like me, the day after Babette’s Feast bowed, Palestinian luminary Michel ...

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, ...

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 ...

On December 11, 2025, as part our annual winter list extravaganza, Film Comment Editors Devika Girish and Clinton Krute were joined by esteemed critics Amy Taubin and Bilge Ebiri for a real-time ...

Kinuyo Tanaka was 14 when she first stepped in front of a movie camera, and during the next half-century she appeared in more than 250 films and directed six. Explaining why she never became a wife or ...

Roman Polanski’s life experience is predicated upon violence and absurdity. As an accused and convicted sex offender on the lam for nearly half a century, Polanski is toxic, although it has taken a ...

The Cinema House & the World: The Cahiers du Cinéma Years, 1962-1981. By Serge Daney. Translated by Christine Pichini. Semiotext(e), 2022. Ed Halter is a writer and film programmer. He teaches as ...