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

Erika Balsom is a reader in film studies at King’s College London and the co-editor of Feminist Worldmaking and the Moving ...

Walks beside me: an inclusive, elastic understanding of modern queer lives emerges across Dag Johan ...

Film Comment hosted the author Malcolm Harris for a special event celebrating the launch of his latest book, What’s Left: ...

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 ...

“There are many ways in which Zama, [Lucrecia] Martel’s first feature in nine years, represents a departure for the Argentine writer-director,” I wrote in “When All Is Lost,” my September/October 2017 ...

It’s all over. Well, not quite, but the 2010s did come to an end on a note of pessimism about the world, and one of resignation about the film industry’s consolidation and glut of choice. At the same ...

Very careful, and very open. Those attitudes marked both Scorsese’s ballsy adaptation of the Nikos Kazantzakis novel and his conversation with me, a week after The Last Temptation ’s opening. ABC News ...

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 ...

The Woman on the Beach (Jean Renoir, 1947, U.S.) – Photochemical Restoration Restored by the Library of Congress and The Film Foundation. The restoration was done by YCM Laboratories and the audio ...

The results are in for our 2023 poll of Film Comment’s contributors! On this page, you’ll find our list of the best films that were released either theatrically or virtually in 2023 in the United ...

Present Tense is a column by Sheila O’Malley that reflects on the intersections of film, literature, art, and culture. All images from Out of the Blue (Dennis Hopper, 1980) “ [It’s] the cage of life ...