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Founded in 1962 and originally released as a quarterly, Film Comment features reviews and analysis of mainstream, art-house, and avant-garde filmmaking from around the world.

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November-December 1975

Rainer Werner Fassbinder interviewed, Fassbinder on Sirk, 1975 New York Film Festival reviews, new cinema in Eastern Europe, Ken Russell, Marguerite Duras interviewed

September-October 1975

Kon Ichikawa, samurai films, on the set of Hitchcock's Family Plot, Sydney Pollack interview, François Truffaut's Story of Adele H., the Maysles's Grey Gardens, Miklós Jancsó’s Electra, George Stevens, Jr. intervew

July-August 1975

Michelangelo Antonioni’s The Passenger, Jerry Lewis, Mike Nichols, Susan Sontag, David Denby, Lillian Hellman, and more on the censorship of Marcel Ophuls’s The Memory of Justice, Alain Resnais interviewed, populism and social realism, George Stevens

May-June 1975

The Day of the Locust: a review and John Schlesinger interviewed, Erich von Stroheim, Don Rugoff, Silk Stockings, Midsection: art direction/the avant-garde/video art, Dusan Makavejev, Luis Buñuel’s The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie

March-April 1975

Features on Old Hollywood and New Hollywood, The Scarlett EmpressThe Merry WidowOn Dangerous GroundKiss Me Deadly, Paul Mazursky, Martin Scorsese interviewed, Mel Brooks interviewed; midsection on the personal documentary, film in pre-revolutionary Russia, movie costumes, and TV movies

January-February 1975

Special Issue: The Hollywood Cartoon—Chuck Jones considered and interviewed, Warner Brothers, Disney, Grim Natwick interviewed, the Van Buren Studio, TV animation