Film Comment Archive
March/April 2013
Olivier Assayas's Something in the Air, Harmony Korine's Spring Breakers, Peter Mettler, IMDb, MAD Magazine Movie Parodies, David Gatten, 38th Annual Grosses Gloss, Readers' Poll Results, The Color of the Chameleon, René Vautier, Aram Avakian's End of the Road, Carlos Reygadas's Post Tenebras Lux, Terence Nance's An Oversimplification of Her Beauty
January/February 2013
Steven Spielberg's Lincoln, Quentin Tarantino's Django Unchained, best films of 2012, Mark Cousins' Story of Film, Walter Hill on his latest film and Robert Aldrich, Michael Haneke, Manoel de Oliveira, and Robert Redford's thanatos, Lucien Castaing-Taylor and Véréna Paravel's Leviathan
The Dark Knight Rises
Christopher Nolan reveals the keys to his thoroughly modern mythmaking
November/December 2012
Denzel Washington in Flight, Alfred Hitchcock, Room 237, Tabu, Book-Length Film Studies, Bruce Goldstein, Red Dawn, Miss Lovely, La furia umana, Cristian Mungiu, Wu Nien-jen's A Borrowed Life, Silver Lining's Playbook, The Central Park Five, Cloud Atlas
September/October 2012
Includes Kent Jones on Paul Thomas Anderson's The Master, Ira Sachs's Keep the Lights On, two views on the film adaptation of Richard Wright's Native Son, an interview with Jean-Louis Trintignant, The New York Film Festival at 50, Peter Kubelka, Wuthering Heights, Gabriel Over the White House, Chris Marker, and Grzegorz Królikiewicz
July/August 2012
Interviews with Adam Curtis and Oliver Stone, an excerpt from Larry Cohen memoirs about working with Bette Davis on her last film, plus Ridley Scott's Prometheus, Kenneth Lonergan's Margaret, and Steve McQueen
May/June 2012
Includes Beasts of the Southern Wild, AIDS Documentaries, God Bless America and the films of Bobcat Goldthwait, Spaghetti Westerns, Whit Stillman, Werner Schroeter, HBO Films
March/April 2012
Includes the Best Films of 2011 Readers' Poll results, Terence Davies, Aleksei German, Gilbert Adair, reviews of This is Not a Film, Attenberg, The Cabin in the Woods, and more
January/February 2012
Includes the Best Films of 2011 Critics' Poll, A Separation, Miss Bala, reviews of Declaration of War, The Iron Lady, The Grey
November/December 2011
Includes Deborah Jowitt on Wim Wenders's Pina, Richard Combs on François Truffaut, reviews of The Artist, The Skin I Live In, Tomboy, Shame + Sleeping Beauty, and more...
September/October 2011
Includes Amy Taubin on David Cronenberg's A Dangerous Method, Chris Norris on Martin Scorsese's George Harrison: Living in the Material World, reviews of Restless, Drive, Machine Gun Preacher, The Debt, and more...
July/August 2011
Includes Kent Jones on Terrence Malick's The Tree of Life, Amy Taubin on Errol Morris's Tabloid and an interview with Morris by Nicolas Rapold, Raúl Ruiz's Mysteries of Lisbon, Chris Norris on Project Nim, reviews of Super 8, The Last Circus, and Terri. Plus, reports from Cannes.
May/June 2011
Includes Kent Jones on Midnight in Paris, David Bordwell asks why cinephiles and academics can't just get along, Andrew Sarris on Octubre, reviews of Beginners, 13 Assassins and L'Amour fou. Plus, Page One: Inside The New York Times
March/April 2011
Includes Scott Foundas on Serge Bozón and Co., Michael Koresky on Insidious, reviews of Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives, Uncle Kent, and Cedar Rapids. Plus, Meek's Cutoff, Juliette Binoche, Sidney Poitier, and Susanne Bier
January/February 2011
Includes our Year-End Tribute to the Best Films of 2010, including Terra Incognita: 20 films to look out for in 2011 and how to enter our annual Readers’ Poll contest. Plus, James L. Brooks in conversation with Gavin Smith, Kent Jones on Shoah, Mike Leigh interviewed by Amy Taubin, Scott Foundas on Isild Le Besco, Hot Property: Robinson in Ruins by Chris Chang, Site Specifics: I Love Alaska by Jesse P. Finnegan, reviews of Cold Weather, The Strange Case of Angelica, The Time That Remains, and True Grit, plus short takes on Carancho, The Housemaid, Into Eternity, Of Gods and Men, Twelve Thirty, and The Way Back
November/December 2010
Includes Isabelle Huppert in conversation with Joan Dupont, Amy Taubin on White Material, Paul Haggis interviewed by Scott Foundas, Andrew Sarris on Claude Chabrol, Hot Property: Aurora by Chris Chang, Site Specifics: Chris Marker and Second Life by Jesse P. Finnegan, reviews of The King’s Speech, 127 Hours, Black Swan, and The Tempest, plus short takes on All Good Things + Blue Valentine, The Illusionist, Night Catches Us, Rare Exports: A Christmas Tale, and Tiny Furniture
September/October 2010
Includes Scott Foundas on David Fincher’s The Social Network, part two of Paul Brunick’s article on the recent state of film criticism, Tom Mes on Masahiro Shinoda, Andrew Sarris on Sacha Guitry, Hot Property: Extraordinary Stories by Chris Chang, Site Specifics: jonasmekasfilms.com by Jesse P. Finnegan, reviews of Tamara Drewe, Nuremberg, Scott Pilgrim vs. the World, and Last Train Home, plus short takes on Buried, Catfish, Heartbreaker, The Milk of Sorrow, Nowhere Boy, and Vision
July/August 2010
Includes Amy Taubin’s interview with Inception director Christopher Nolan, Paul Brunick on the recent state of film criticism, Laura Kern on Animal Kingdom, Kent Jones on Farewell, My Lovely and Cannes, Hot Property: The Hole by Dave Kehr, Site Specifics: UltraSlomo.com by Jesse P. Finnegan, reviews of Cyrus, Spring Fever, I Killed My Mother, Around a Small Mountain, The Law, and Alamar, plus short takes on The Disappearance of Alice Creed, Down Terrace, A Film Unfinished, Lebanon, Restrepo, and Soul Kitchen
May/June 2010
Includes Geoffrey O’Brien on Breathless, Chris Fujiwara on the newly reconstructed Metropolis, Andrew Sarris on Roman Polanski, Hot Property: Kinatay by Chris Chang, Site Specifics: Abecedarium: NYC by Jesse P. Finnegan, Avant-Garde Poll: The Best Experimental Films of the Decade, reviews of The Oath, World on a Wire, Trash Humpers, and I Am Love, plus short takes on Anton Chekhov’s The Duel, Beetle Queen Conquers Tokyo, Best Worst Movie, Double Take, Mademoiselle Chambon, and Solitary Man
March/April 2010
Includes an interview with The Green Zone director Paul Greengrass by Gavin Smith, Andrew Sarris on Eric Rohmer, Hot Property: The Red Chapel by Chris Chang, Site Specifics: Undercurrent by Paul Fileri, Sundance reports by Amy Taubin and Laura Kern, reviews of Greenberg, I Love You Phillip Morris, No One Knows About Persian Cats, and Mother, plus short takes on Brooklyn’s Finest, The Eclipse, The Good Heart, Prodigal Sons, and The Secret of Kells
