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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 2013

50 years of Film Comment, the Coen Brothers' Inside Llewyn Davis, Frederick Wiseman's At Berkeley, Venice, Locarno, and Toronto Festival coverage, Abdellatif Kechiche's Blue Is the Warmest Color, Asghar Farhadi's The Past

September-October 2013

Steve McQueen's 12 Years a Slave, Alexander Payne's Nebraska, Jia Zhang-ke's A Touch of Sin, Lav Diaz's Norte, the End of History, Wong Kar Wai's The Grandmaster, Ulrich Seidl's Paradise trilogy, J. Hoberman on Eraserhead and Killer of Sheep, Peter Morgan interviewed, Claire Denis' Trouble Every Day and Bastards

July-August 2013

Paul Schrader's The Canyons, Paul Schrader on Lindsay Lohan, Joshua Oppenheimer's The Act of Killing, Matías Piñeiro, Andy Warhol and YouTube, Fernando Di Leo, Bret Easton Ellis's Guilty Pleasures, Aleksandr Sokurov's Faust, David Lowery's Ain’t Them Bodies Saints, Brian De Palma's Passion, Ryan Coogler's Fruitvale Station

May-June 2013

Richard Linklater's Before Midnight, Greta Gerwig profiled, Quentin Tarantino vs. John Ford, Peter Strickland's Berberian Sound Studio, Dennis Hopper, Alain Resnais, Rob Zombie, Sarah Polley's Stories We Tell, Peter de Rome, Roger Ebert eulogy, Jules Dassin's 10:30 P.M. Summer, Gordon Matta-Clark, Philippe Grandrieux's White Epilepsy, Joss Whedon's Much Ado About Nothing

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