Colonialism has always been the subtext of the Argentine filmmaker's work. In her first documentary feature, it is the text ...

The multi-hyphenate star of The Christophers and Mother Mary reflects on what it’s like to do it all It was June 2020, three ...

Old and New Beginnings. The critic revisits his years as a Paris and London correspondent for the magazine. by Jonathan ...

Film Comment sat down with Michael Haneke in September amid the hustle and bustle of the Toronto International Film Festival, where Happy End had its North American premiere a few months after Cannes.

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Regular watchers of the Rotterdam Film Festival’s reliably sprawling Bright Future section—one of the festival world’s most optimistically titled programs—know that there’s no way to come close to ...

“[Story of My Death‘s] eventual fictional encounter between Casanova and Dracula represents a key moment in European history: the transition from the Age of Enlightenment to that of Romanticism,” ...

In the opening number of 1958’s King Creole, directed by the great Michael Curtiz, Elvis Presley lounges on a balcony in New Orleans, singing a call-and-response song with the people hawking wares ...

Sirk’s next leave-taking, two decades later, was less momentous perhaps but even more astonishing. After having made the most successful movie in the history of Universal to that date (Imitation of ...