Train tracks: the Austrian experimental filmmaker discusses using found footage to interrogate and play with the past ...

Stop that train: the recursions of a painful past preoccupied many of the best films at this year’s edition of the Czech ...

On fire: at this year’s edition of the festival devoted to rediscoveries and restorations, distinctions between high and low ...

New scene: the incarcerated journalist shares her painstaking journey to teach herself screenwriting in prison ...

The Self-Styled Siren Classical Hollywood fetishism has found a most enchanting ambassador. Farran Smith Nehme of The Self-Styled Siren turns the articulation of cliché and convention into a sport—no ...

By Gavin Smith in the January-February 1998 Issue T he elusive search for peace, for equilibrium, has always been latent in the films of Martin Scorsese. But still, what does it mean for American ...

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 ...

Like life, Million Dollar Baby will take you places you don't necessarily expect to go. Therefore, you are strongly cautioned against reading the following Q & A with Clint Eastwood until after seeing ...

By Donald Chase in the September-October 1997 Issue N ot long before she died in 1981 at age 57, Gloria Grahame, who had acted in films signed by Frank Capra, Nicholas Ray, Josef von Sternberg, ...

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 ...

24 City director Jia Zhangke discusses the realities and responsibilities of Chinese cinema with Andrew Chan in this expanded, exclusively-online interview ...