Factory dreams: the artist-run collective L’Abominable imagines a future for the film laboratory in the ruins of the ...

Angelo Madsen’s feature documentary A Body to Live In and Tiona Nekkia McClodden’s video installations explore sadomasochism ...

Land of the Pharaohs (1955, Howard Hawks). When I first saw it, as a kid, Land of the Pharaohs became my favorite film. I’d always been addicted to historical epics, but this one was different: it ...

There’s something strangely sedating about being at the Venice Film Festival. The annual Mostra Internazionale d’Arte Cinematografica takes place not in Venice proper, but on a tiny island called Lido ...

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 ...

This article is part of Film Comment’s Best of 2024 coverage. Read all the lists here. At a recent panel at Anthology Film Archives about new scans and restorations of the films of Sergei Parajanov, ...

This article is part of Film Comment’s Best of 2024 coverage. Read all the lists here. As usual, a large number of the year’s best films won’t appear on many critics’ year-end roundups simply by ...

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This article appeared in the April 19, 2024 edition of The Film Comment Letter, our free weekly newsletter featuring original film criticism and writing. Sign up for the Letter here. Phillip Vance ...

This article is part of Film Comment’s Best of 2023 coverage. Read all the lists here. Below are 10 film restorations, preservations, reprints, and remasters that I was able to see in 2023. These ...

The results are in for our 2022 poll of Film Comment’s contributors! Our Top 20 lists in both the Released and Undistributed categories feature original appreciations from our critics, as well as ...

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 ...