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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.
Beaver Trilogy, Anne McGuire, Miranda July, Abbas Kiarostami's The Wind Will Carry Us, The Farrelly Brothers, John Waters, the MTV movie awards, Walter Hill's Supernova, Michelangelo Antonioni's Identification of a Woman, Lav Diaz, Raúl Ruiz's Time Regained, Paul Verhoeven's guilty pleasures
Mike Figgis’s Time Code, Michael Almereyda, Claire Denis’s Beau Travail, Burt Lancaster, Djibril Diop Mambéty, Alain Resnais, Burt Lancaster, Mike Mills
Krzysztof Kieslowski’s The Decalogue, Manny Farber, Al Pacino, John Ford, Peter Weir’s Fearless, Monte Hellman, Ian Hart, Martín Rejtman’s Silvia Prieto, Sundance 2000
Jim Carrey, Werner Herzog, Jane Campion's Holy Smoke, Paul Thomas Anderson's Magnolia, Kevin Bacon, best movies of the Nineties, avant-garde films, Clara Bow, Cornell Woolrich and Black Angel
Kevin Smith’s Dogma, Leopoldo Trieste, Ann Sothern, Ang Lee’s Ride with the Devil, Woody Allen’s Sweet and Lowdown, Victor Mature, Chris Smith’s American Movie, Tim Robbins’s Cradle Will Rock
David Fincher and Fight Club, Stanley Kubrick’s Eyes Wide Shut, Spike Jonze’s Being John Malkovich, Clive Brook’s On Approval, Catherine Breillat, Hou Hsiao-hsien, The Third Man and Touch of Evil, Steven Soderbergh, Tom Twyker’s Run Lola Run
Albert Brooks interview, Cannes 1999 coverage, Oliver Reed, Robert Bresson symposium, Fred Zinnemann's Act of Violence, Hirozaku Kore-eda, Alfred Hitchcock, François Truffaut, The Blair Witch Project, Léos Carax’s Les Amants du Pont-Neuf
Mike Nichols interview, Robert Bresson symposium, Tehran Film Festival, Berlin Film Festival, Doug Liman’s Go, Claude Jutra’s Mon Oncle Antoine, David Cronenberg’s eXistenZ
Bernardo Bertolucci's Besieged, Julia Sweeney, Alfred Hitchcock's Notorious, the Gay Nineties, Ben-Hur, Eddie Romero, Warren Sonbert, Rotterdam and Sundance 1999 coverage
Terence Malick's The Thin Red Line, Milton Moses Ginsburg on Coming Apart, Wes Anderson, Akira Kurosawa, John Carpenter, Jacques Becker, Aleksei German, Petulia, Small Change, Happiness, and Best Films of 1998, the Avant-Garde in 1998
Rogers and Autry, Philippine cinema, Douglas Sirk, Sadie Benning, Hayao Miyazaki, Bertrand Tavernier, Paul Verhoeven's Starship Troopers, Venice film festival
Louis Feuillade’s Les Vampires, Galway Film Fleadh, Steven Spielberg’s Saving Private Ryan, Stanley Kubrick’s Full Metal Jacket and Lolita, Godard in the Nineties, Todd Solondz
Frank Sinatra, Mary Astor, Theo Angelopoulos, Terry Gilliam’s Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Ingmar Bergman, Patrick Bachau, In the Presence of a Clown Face, Cannes coverage, Godzilla remake, Chinese Box, Day for Night, The Best American Movie Writing of 1998
Woody Allen, Martin Scorsese midsection, Scorsese on color film preservation, Alex van Warmerdam, Berlin Film Festival, Shane Meadows
John Grisham adaptations, Fireworks, Deconstructing Harry, Elmore Leonard, Amistad, Affliction, Guy Maddin, Denzel Washington, the Grosses Gloss, and Sundance coverage
Martin Scorsese interviewed, 1997 wrap-up, features on Edgar Kennedy, Atom Egoyan, Michael Winterbottom, tabloid documentaries, Titanic films, and coverage of the Pordenone Silent Film Festival
Robert Duvall interviewed, features on Jack Smith, Kiss Me Deadly, My Best Friend's Wedding, Aleksandr Sokurov, L.A. Confidential, Godard and the Situationists, Film Blanc, and coverage of the 1997 Venice, Toronto, and New York Film Festivals
Lee Tamahori’s The Edge, Frank Borzage, Errol Morris, Gloria Grahame, Contempt, Chen Kaige, Emir Kusturica, Boogie Nights, Fred Zinneman, Gummo
Critics’ poll of best undistributed foreign films, features on Hong Kong cinema, The Lost World, The Searchers, Soviet musicals, Jazz on a Summer’s Day, Land of the Pharaohs, Sidney Lumet, Luc Besson, Moshen Makhmalbaf
Star Wars, Cinerama, Oscar Redux, Philippe Garrel, Sean Connery tribute, exploitation films, Jonathan Nossiter’s Sunday, Michelangelo Antonioni’s Beyond the Clouds, Lumière & Co., Christopher Münch, and Berlin Film Festival coverage
David Cronenberg interviewed, Oscar Predictions, P.T. Anderson’s Hard Eight, Evita, Krzysztof Kieślowski’s Three Colors . . . White, Saul Bass, Richard III, Ken Jacobs, Wim Wenders, Sundance Film Festival coverage, rock n’ roll movies
James Woods interviewed, features on Lost Highway, Raúl Ruiz, John Garfield, Charles Burnett, Spike Lee, early movie websites, and Molly Haskell's Guilty Pleasures
Jane Campion's Portrait of a Lady, Helke Misselwitz's Engelchen, Elia Kazan’s Wild River, Jean-Pierre Melville, Youssef Chahine, Cornel Wilde, James Benning, The Killers, an interview with Jules Dassin, coverage of the Beachmont Silent Film Festival, Venice, Toronto, and New York film festivals
Tsai Ming-Liang, Brigitte Lin, British war films, Maurice Pialat’s Le Garçu, John Carpenter’s Guilty Pleasures, artists as filmmakers, Nick Gomez, Jacques Demy’s The Young Girls of Rochefort, Eric Rohmer, Dan Ireland’s The Whole Wide World, Kent Jones on summer blockbusters
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