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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 2005

Michael Haneke’s Hidden; Morgan Fisher; Scorsese’s Dylan and No Direction Home, Robert Wise, Andrew Bujalski’s Mutual Appreciation, J. Hoberman and Elfriede Jelinek on Peter Lorre, an interview with Alan Bishop, Ennio Morricone, Brokeback MountainWalk the Line

September-October 2005

Good Night, and Good Luck. interview with Grant Heslov, Amy Taubin on David Cronenberg's A History of Violence, Shochiku Studio profiled by Chuck Stephens, Owen Land by Paul Arthur, Mikio Naruse, Dear Wendy, The Squid and the Whale

July-August 2005

George Romero, 2046, Police Beat, Gus Van Sant's Last Days, Jim Jarmusch's Broken Flowers, Cannes 2005 coverage, Françoise Dorleac, Werner Herzog's documentaries, Don Roos's Guilty Pleasures, The Beat That My Heart SkippedThe Devil's Rejects

May-June 2005

Michael Powell reconsidered, Jean Rouch by Sam DiLorio, Apichatpong Weerasethakul's Tropical Malady, Adam Curtis's The Power of NightmaresKings and Queen by Nathan Lee and Gavin Smith, Andrew Sarris profiled by Kent Jones,  Claire Denis's The Intruder, Johnnie To interviewed,  We Jam Econo by Chris Chang,  My Summer of Love reviewed by Kristin M. Jones

March-April 2005

Dustin Hoffman, Amitabh Bachchan, John Cassavetes' Johnny Staccato,  2004 Readers' Poll, Readers' Rants and Comments, Hou Hsiao-hsien's Café Lumiére, Sundance 2005 coverage,  Paul Pfeiffer interview, Kung Fu Hustle, The Case of the Grinning Cat, Rogério Sganzerla

January-February 2005

Jean-Luc Godard interviewed by Frédéric Bonnaud, Clint Eastwood Interviewed by Amy Taubin, Bruce ConnerThe AviatorMillion Dollar Baby,  Route 181, Terra Incognita: Films to Look Out for in 2005