Film Comment Archive
January/February 2010
Includes an interview with The Lovely Bones’ Peter Jackson by Gavin Smith, Andrew Sarris on Vincere, Hot Property: Un lac by Chris Chang, Site Specifics: African Film Library by Paul Fileri, a review of A Prophet by Amy Taubin, Graham Fuller on the Red Riding trilogy, Wrap-ups of the Films of the Year (including Terra Incognita and Movies That Mattered) and the Decade
November/December 2009
Includes Kent Jones on Wes Anderson’s Fantastic Mr. Fox, Andrew Sarris on Police, Adjective, Hot Property: Women Without Men by Chris Chang, Site Specifics: Film-Philosophy by Paul Fileri, a review of Up in the Air by Scott Foundas, Laura Kern reports from the 6th annual Reykjavik International Film Festival
September/October 2009
Includes Larry Gross on Lars von Trier’s Antichrist, Amy Taubin on Alain Resnais’s Wild Grass, Andrew Sarris on Public Enemies, Hot Property: Love Exposure by Chris Chang, Site Specifics: World Picture Journal by Paul Fileri, a review of The Burning Plain by Melissa Anderson
July/August 2009
Includes Scott Foundas on Inglourious Basterds, Amy Taubin on Lucrecia Martel’s The Headless Woman (plus an online-only interview with Martel), Thom Andersen on the Dardenne Brothers’ Lorna’s Silence, Hot Property: Breathless and It Might Get Loud by Chris Chang, Site Specifics: Artforum by Paul Fileri, a review of Still Walking by Tony Rayns, Cannes coverage by Amy Taubin, Gavin Smith, and Richard Peña
May/June 2009
Includes Kent Jones on The Limits of Control, plus an interview with director Jim Jarmusch by Gavin Smith, Amy Taubin on Kathryn Bigelow’s The Hurt Locker, Oliver Sacks’s examination of Powell & Pressburger’s A Matter of Life and Death, Hot Property: Can Go Through Skin by Chris Chang, Site Specifics: National Film Board of Canada by Paul Fileri, a review of Departures by Tony Rayns
March/April 2009
Includes Richard Schickel on Tom Hanks, an interview with 24 City director Jia Zhangke by Andrew Chan, Nicolas Rapold on Satyajit Ray, Kent Jones on Robert Mulligan’s The Stalking Moon, Geoffrey O’Brien revisits The Friends of Eddie Coyle, Amy Taubin takes a first look at Guy and Madeline on a Park Bench, Hot Property: Louise-Michel, Site Specifics: indieWIRE & The Daily@IFC.com by Paul Fileri, a review of Summer Hours by Frédéric Bonnaud
January/February 2009
Includes Our Annual Year-End Wrap-Up—Movies That Mattered, Terra Incognita, The Best Films of the Year and Readers’ Poll, and more—Amy Taubin on The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (plus an online-only interview with David Fincher), José Teodoro on Carlos Reygadas’s Silent Light, Melissa Anderson revisits The Killing of Sister George, Hot Property: Unrelated by Chris Chang, Site Specifics: The Auteurs by Paul Fileri, a review of Revanche by Nicolas Rapold
November/December 2008
Includes an interview with A Christmas Tale director Arnaud Desplechin and star Catherine Deneuve, Nathan Lee on Gus Van Sant’s Milk, Rob Nelson on two Eighties docs Demon Lover Diary and Seventeen, Hot Property: Tulpan by Chris Chang, Site Specifics: Order of the Exile by Paul Fileri, a review of The Secret of the Grain by Elisabeth Lequeret
September/October 2008
Includes Amy Taubin on Steven Soderbergh’s Che, Tony Rayns on Nagisa Oshima, Distributor Wanted: The Mugger by Chris Chang, Sam Di Iorio on Les Idoles, Site Specifics: Europa Film Treasures, Ariel Rotter’s The Other, a review of Let the Right One In by Laura Kern
July/August 2008
Includes Kent Jones on WALL•E, Jonathan Rosenbaum on Manoel de Oliveira, Distributor Wanted: In the City of Sylvia by J. Hoberman, Olaf Möller on Li Ying, Site Specifics: davekehr.com, Cannes coverage by Kent Jones and Richard Peña, a review of Vicky Cristina Barcelona by Jonathan Romney
May/June 2008
Includes Amy Taubin on Catherine Breillat’s The Last Mistress, Thomas Elsaesser on The Edge of Heaven, Distributor Wanted: Estômago by Laura Kern, Miriam Bale on Jennifer Jones, a review of Yella by Chris Darke
March/April 2008
Includes Molly Haskell on Meryl Streep, Robin Wood on Munyurangabo, Distributor Wanted: Captain Ahab by Elisabeth Lequeret, Irina Leimbacher on Nicolas Klotz and his latest film, Heartbeat Detector, a review of Standard Operating Procedure by Michael Chaiken
January/February 2008
Includes Kent Jones on There Will Be Blood, Robin Wood on George A. Romero’s Diary of the Dead, Distributor Wanted: The Man from London by Chris Chang, Terra Incognita: 18 films to look our for in 2008, a review of Ex Drummer by Chris Norris, and much more
November/December 2007
Includes Geoffrey O’Brien on No Country for Old Men, Amy Taubin on the mumblecore movement, Distributor Wanted: Useless, by Chris Chang, a review of Paul Schrader’s The Walker by Rob Nelson, and much more
September/October 2007
Jonathan Romney on Jacques Rivette, Reviews of Wes Anderson’s The Darjeeling Limited and Sidney Lumet’s Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead, the return of William Friedkin’s Cruising, the controversy over Fassbinder’s Berlin Alexanderplatz
July/August 2007
Includes Matt Groening’s Guilty Pleasures, Stuart Klawans on Sicko, Chris Darke on Kes, Distributor Wanted: After This Our Exile by Chris Chang, Klaus Kinski by Maitland McDonagh, Robert Horton’s review of Dans Paris
May/June 2007
Includes Chris Darke on Jean-Daniel Pollet, Brynn White on Lee Marvin, Distributor Wanted: Woman on the Beach and Sound: Radio On by Chris Chang, Chuck Stephens’s review of I Don't Want to Sleep Alone
March/April 2007
Includes Manuel Yáñez Murillo on Carlos Saura, Distributor Wanted: Longing by Chris Chang, Sundance reports by Amy Taubin and Gavin Smith, Joumane Chahine’s review of After the Wedding
January/February 2007
Includes our Annual Year-End Round-Up: 10-Best Lists, Movies That Mattered, Terra Incognita (19 films to look out for), etc., Distributor Wanted: Summer Palace by Chris Chang, Melissa Anderson on Play It As It Lays, Nathan Lee’s review of Black Snake Moan, and much more
November/December 2006
Includes Kent Jones on Christopher Guest’s For Your Consideration, David Thompson on the strange career of the late Polish cult filmmaker Walerian Borowczyk, Claude Chabrol by Richard Combs, Amy Taubin on French fashion legend agnès b.’s secret life as a film producer, On Location in Hong Kong with Olivier Assayas
