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

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

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: ...

By Richard T. Jameson in the July-August 1980 Issue T he author, who expressed his gratitude to Kathleen Murphy for her contribution to this article, has taken the liberty of discussing scenes that ...

A rumination on the interwoven nature of color, character, and narrative in the films of Jacques Demy ...

Circling back: Monte Hellman, who passed away on April 20, made movies that are the stuff of cinematic legend ...

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 ...

It’s been 25 years since the theatrical release of Julie Dash’s Daughters of the Dust, which had a week-long run at Film Forum in 1991. Dash’s groundbreaking film follows the Peazant family in the ...

“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 ...

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 ...

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 ...