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: ...

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 ...

The wallpaper of the living room of the flat Genevieve and her mother live in reverses this — broad green stripes interspersed with narrow pink ones. In one scene the mother is set against this ...

Taxi Driver is a half-half movie: half of it is a skimpy story line with muddled motivation about the way an undereducated misfit would act, and the other half is a clever, confusing, hypnotic sell.

In Europe before the advent of sound, a most interesting melange of women directors was operating. In Czechloslovakia, the stage actress Zet Molas disavowed the theater and experimented with forms ...

By Chuck Stephens in the March-April 2000 Issue Monte Hellman makes Westerns. He’s made them again and again. He’s made them in Utah and he’s made them in Europe; he’s made them with horses and he’s ...

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 ...

This article appeared in the November 2, 2023 edition of The Film Comment Letter, our free weekly newsletter featuring original film criticism and writing. Sign up for the Letter here. Vampyr (Carl ...

“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 ...