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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.
Stephen Frears’s The Grifters, Fritz Lang’s centenary, Barry Levinson interviewed, F.W. Murnau and Robert Flaherty’s Tabu, a career appreciation of Theo Angelopoulos, Arthur Terry, Robert Towne, David Lynch’s Wild at Heart, Toronto and Venice
The Coen Brothers’ Miller’s Crossing, MPAA ratings, David Lean, Ken Burns’s The Civil War, Teresa Wright, Cannes 1990, Martin Scorsese’s Goodfellas, John Turturro interviewed, British crime films, Maurizio Nichetti, Joseph L. Mankiewicz’s Five Fingers
Richard Linklater, Paul Verhoeven, and Abel Ferrara interviewed, Andrew Sarris on the state of film criticism, Paul Schrader's The Comfort of Strangers, Greta Garbo, Barbara Stanwyck, Ava Gardner, and Jonathan Rosenbaum on Andrei Tarkovsky's Solaris
Roger Ebert versus Richard Corliss, Peter Greenaway interviewed, midsection on Michael Powell, Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer, Raul Ruiz’s The Golden Boat, Longtime Companion, Kid ’n Play interviewed
Richard Corliss on the state of film criticism, special midsection on Jimmy Stewart, Jeanne Moreau interviewed, James Toback’s The Big Bang, Twin Peaks, Jennifer Jason Leigh interviewed, Ten Apocryphal Hollywood Tales
Michael Douglas interviewed, Neil Jordan interviewed, the public domain, special midsection on ’80s movie moguls, the 1989 movie revue, Ed Zwick interviewed, Oscar predix, William Gibson and Clive Barker venture into filmmaking, festival coverage
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