Unconditional loves: the French director discusses her latest, a surreal and moving coming-of-age story that reimagines the ...

Screentime: Radu Jude‘s Kontinental ‘25 adapts its neorealist influences to our media-addled, morally bankrupt times ...

In what seems like the start of a missing-person yarn, Irakli, a teacher at a sports university in Georgia, begins traveling across the countryside searching for his daughter, Lisa, a photographer who ...

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 ...

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 2025 poll of Film Comment’s contributors and colleagues! On this page you’ll find a selection of the individual ballots submitted by our voters for the Best Films of 2025 ...

Friends Jun (Rira Kawamura), Sakurako (Hazuki Kikuchi), Fumi (Maiko Mihara), and Akari (Sachie Tanaka) are all thirty-something bourgeois women in Kobe just trying to get by, obtaining a quantum of ...

There’s a story about Martha Coolidge which speaks volumes. She was casting her first narrative feature, Valley Girl (1983), and was stuck finding an actor to play Randy, the male lead. She glanced at ...

The lay of the land, in the Seventies film, is that there are two types of structure being practiced: dispersal and shallow-boxed space. RAMEAU’S NEPHEW, McCABE AND MRS. MILLER, CELINE AND JULIE GO ...

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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 ...