Straight from Film Comment’s pages to the Walter Reade’s screen, the editors and writers of America’s leading film magazine bring you Film Comment Selects - a line-up of previews, discoveries, films without distribution, underrated classics and special showcases. With special presentations throughout the year and a two-week series each February, Film Comment Selects is your chance to see movies that may never get released in the U.S., discover up-and-coming directors, and sample from an eclectic menu where Hong Kong action and French horror rub shoulders with some of the most challenging and complex visions in contemporary cinema.
"It may not be the explicit intention of Film Comment Selects... but the program’s chief virtue is that it makes a smart, serious effort in that direction... it has an eclectic, idiosyncratic spirit reflecting the magazine that is its guiding intelligence... Film Comment, a forum for contention and debate, is dedicated to the proposition that movies are worth arguing about. And that is certainly true of the films selected this year." ~ A. O. Scott, The New York Times
“...New York cineastes must realize that nothing can be taken for granted. Don't fail, then, to commemorate the 10th birthday of Film Comment Selects… it's a precious rarity...” ~ Nick Pinkerton, The Village Voice.
