The animator’s dark, nuanced body of work functioned as a counterweight to Disney's brightly-lit dominance of the 1980s and ...

In March 2020, a few days into New York’s COVID-19 lockdown, the visual artist Meriem Bennani posted a one and a half–minute clip to her Instagram captioned “2 Lizards Ep 1,” following it with seven ...

“He was very little more than a voice.” —Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness Little could Joseph Conrad have guessed, when he wrote his novella-length encounter between a man and a myth, that nearly 70 ...

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 ...

Clarissa (Arie Esiri and Chuko Esiri, 2026). Courtesy of Neon. It’s not unusual for the Cannes Film Festival to open amidst controversy; Festival Director Thierry Frémaux alone can usually be relied ...

Perhaps best known as the host of Ways of Seeing, the 1972 BBC program that introduced a generation to the ideological analysis of visual art, John Berger was one of the most important writers of the ...

Richard Linklater’s first feature, It’s Impossible to Learn to Plow by Reading Books (88), is the travelogue of a young man, played by Linklater, riding the rails, hitching, and driving through the ...

Courtesy of the Arctic Indigenous Film Fund. On May 15, Film Comment Editor Devika Girish moderated a panel at Cannes Docs, an industry sidebar dedicated to nonfiction filmmaking. Titled “Breaking ...

I recently wrote to a colleague in Paris that I thought Radu Jude—the prolific author of farcical tragicomedies about our contemporary lives under surveillance, diminished by rapacious capital, ...

Anyone vaguely familiar with Rainer Werner Fassbinder (who died 30 years ago this month) will note that his personal excesses––sex, drugs, and violence––were often inextricable from his ...

Winner of the Special Jury Prize at this year’s Locarno Film Festival, Listen Up Philip will undoubtedly garner plenty of attention from critics and audiences for its distinctive, subdued humor and ...