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: ...

This article appeared in the April 18, 2025 edition of The Film Comment Letter, our free weekly newsletter featuring original film criticism and writing. Sign up for the Letter here. Behind the scenes ...

The films of Robert Kramer blend fiction and documentary modes to engage with, and expand on, traditions of militant political cinema and subjective essay filmmaking. A founding member of the New Left ...

By Robin Wood in the Spring 1972 Issue Why has Alan Pakula been hiding behind Robert Mulligan for so long? After producing a number of Mulligan’s best films, he made THE STERILE CUCKOO. In retrospect ...

This article appeared in the June 7, 2024 edition of The Film Comment Letter, our free weekly newsletter featuring original film criticism and writing. Sign up for the Letter here. Chime (Kiyoshi ...

Every year, Film at Lincoln Center honors a luminary of the film industry with the Chaplin Award. This year’s honoree is a beloved screen icon: the Dude, the Starman, the legend—Jeff Bridges. As ...

This article appeared in the February 23, 2024 edition of The Film Comment Letter, our free weekly newsletter featuring original film criticism and writing. Sign up for the Letter here. Stay up to ...

Even though the weather was unsettlingly balmy, there was a chill in the air at this year’s Berlinale. As Jordan Cronk detailed in his dispatch last week for this publication, last September the news ...

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 ...