The 20 Worst Film Comment Covers

Highlights: Television issue Golden Age of Live Dramas TV movies by Tom Allen Norman Lear Johnny Carson Lou Grant Dallas Commercials Purchase a digital or print copy…despite the cover

1. July/August 1979

Highlights: Sense and Sensibility Kent Jones on Olivier Assayas Wong Kar Wai Casino Jean Renoir IMAX Purchase a digital or print copy…despite the cover

2. January/February 1996

Highlights: Roger & Me Michael Moore interview Crimes and Misdemeanors Speaking Parts Greil Marcus on Eighties highlights Character Actors including Jeff Corey interview Purchase a digital or print copy…despite the cover

3. November/December 1989

Highlights: Alien3 & His Kind of Woman Christopher Walken, Phillip Noyce, Robert Mitchum & Jane Russell interviews Godfrey Cheshire on Chen Kaige Thomas Beller on The Hours and Times Spielberg Pt. II Aviation films Swoon Purchase a digital or print copy…despite the cover

4. July/August 1992

Highlights: Polyester Anne Thompson becomes associate editor John Waters Character actors John Boorman & Manoel de Oliveira interviews John Sayles The Avant-Garde Now including Michael Snow interview Purchase a digital or print copy…despite the cover

5. May/June 1981

Highlights: The Day of the Locust John Schlesinger interview Erich von Stroheim’s Walking Down Broadway Dušan Makavejev interviewed by Carlos Clarens & Edgardo Cozarinsky Elliott Stein on Art Direction Silk Stockings Purchase a digital or print copy…despite the cover

6. May/June 1975

Highlights: Jane Fonda Avant-garde film An Unmarried Woman Gérard Depardieu interview Charlie Chaplin, Howard Hawks, George Cukor & Bette Davis Seventies sci-fi Purchase a digital or print copy…despite the cover

7. March/April 1978

Highlights: The Mosquito Coast Peter Weir, Dennis Hopper & Sigourney Weaver interviews Small-town America in Blue Velvet, Peggy Sue Got Married & True Stories Nazi Cinema revisited Purchase a digital or print copy…despite the cover

8. November/December 1986

Highlights: The Wiz Sidney Lumet interview Italian cinema in the Mussolini era Makeup artists Midsection Purchase a digital or print copy…despite the cover

9. November/December 1978

Highlights: Down with Love Friday Night The Pianist Central Asian Cinema Commandante Chris Marker Midsection Pt. I including Michael Almereyda on Remembrance of Things to Come Purchase a digital or print copy…despite the cover

10. May/June 2003

Highlights: The Edge Boogie Night Contempt Lee Tamahori Frank Borzage Fred Zinnemann Emir Kusturica Gummo Gloria Grahame Errol Morris David Ansen on The Delta Purchase a digital or print copy…despite the cover

11. September/October 1997

Highlights: Prizzi’s HonorJack Nicholson, Federico Fellini & Susan Seidelman interviews 42nd Street cinemas Hungarian film Rethinking film and feminism Latin America Midsection: Mexico, Cuba, Central America Purchase a digital or print copy…despite the cover

12. May/June 1985

Highlights: Rush to Judgment Emile de Antonio, Ingmar Bergman, Jan Kadar & Jean Rouch interviews U. S. Information Agency Film on JFK, Years of Lightning, Days of Drums Japanese underground film D.W. Griffith Purchase a digital or print copy…despite the cover

13. Fall/Winter 1967

Highlights: A Wedding Robert Altman & Eric Rohmer interviews Days of Heaven Larry Cohen Martin Scorsese’s Guilty Pleasures Sound Midsection Purchase a digital or print copy…despite the cover

14. September/October 1978

Highlights: The Muse Albert Brooks interview Oliver Reed Act of Violence Hirokazu Kore-eda Robert Bresson symposium Pt. II including Olaf Möller on Les Anges du péché, Manohla Dargis on Une femme douce, Olivier Assayas on The Devil, Probably & Adrian Martin on L’Argent Purchase a digital or print copy…despite the cover

15. July/August 1999

Highlights: Bob Hope interview Bob Hope by Dick Cavett Manhattan The Warriors Harlan Kennedy on Michael Powell George Romero The Jerry Lewis Telethon by Harry Shearer Purchase a digital or print copy…despite the cover

16. May/June 1979

Highlights: Terms of Endearment James L. Brooks interview The Osterman Weekend Unfaithfully Yours Pat Aufderheide on the set of Brother from Another Planet Claudette Colbert Behind the Camera Midsection: American Cinematographers Purchase a digital or print copy…despite the cover

17. March/April 1984

Highlights: Jean Renoir, Roberto Rossellini, Luis Buñuel & Alfred Hitchcock Ingrid Bergman & Francis Ford Coppola interviews John Hughes on Roberto Rossellini’s history films The Great Gatsby Purchase a digital or print copy…despite the cover

18. July/August 1974

Highlights: Clint Eastwood John Sayles interview Dead Man Sam Fuller Stanley Kwan Douglas Fairbanks MTV plagiarism Mamoru Oshii American Job Purchase a digital or print copy…despite the cover

19. May/June 1996

Highlights: The Three Musketeers Richard Lester Howard Hawks interview Tout va bien The Exorcist Erich von Stroheim Purchase a digital or print copy…despite the cover

20. May/June 1974