Fire fights: highlights of this year’s festival, like Below the Clouds, Dead Man’s Wire, and Sacrifice reflected the anxious ...

Phillip Vance Smith, II reflects on how movies like Life, Penitentiary, and Sing Sing portray life behind bars, and how his ...

On Actor Directors: Selfishly, being an actor, I think it helps to have a director with an acting background. Too many of the young directors are obsessed with celluloid—obsessed with making beautiful ...

Up, Landmarks, and The Voice of Hind Rajab pierced through the festival’s illusive bubble with lightning bolts of reality ...

Break like the wind: the legendary British rockers are joined by their longtime creative foil, filmmaker Marty DiBergi, to ...

A lot happens in Hong Sangsoo’s latest, By the Stream. After a few features in which his plots seem to have been reduced to the barest minimum—like the beautiful sister-films In Water (2023) and In ...

Roman Polanski’s life experience is predicated upon violence and absurdity. As an accused and convicted sex offender on the lam for nearly half a century, Polanski is toxic, although it has taken a ...

Peter Tscherkassky will be receiving the Underground Spirit Award for “outstanding work in independent filmmaking” at the Paliç European Film Festival this month, and it’s easy to see why. Ever since ...

This article is part of Film Comment’s Best of 2024 coverage. Read all the lists here. At a recent panel at Anthology Film Archives about new scans and restorations of the films of Sergei Parajanov, ...

The results are in for our 2024 poll of Film Comment's contributors and colleagues! On this page you’ll find a selection of the individual ballots submitted by our voters for the Best Films of 2024 ...

The results are now in for our 2024 poll of Film Comment’s contributors! On this page, you’ll find our list of the 20 best films that were released either theatrically or virtually in 2024 in the ...