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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 2014

Christopher Nolan's Interstellar, Paul Thomas Anderson's Inherent Vice, Jean-Luc Godard's Goodbye to Language, Andrey Zvyagintsev, Paul Schrader on editing, Peter von Bagh, FoxcatcherThe Imitation GameThe Babadook, Locarno coverage, Venice coverage, Toronto coverage

September-October 2014

David Fincher interview, Lisandro Alonso, Damien Chazelle's Whiplash, Mike Leigh's Mr. Turner, Joseph L. Mankiewicz, Kevin Kline, Paul Schrader on the close-up, Edie Sedgwick, Nils Malmros, Alexandre Desplat, Lewis Allen’s Desert Fury, David Cronenberg's Maps to the Stars, Alex Ross Perry's Listen Up Philip, Terry Gilliam's The Zero Theorem

July-August 2014

Richard Linklater's Boyhood, Philippe Garrel interview, Paul Schrader's history of key technological advances in film, Joanna Hogg, Jafar Panahi's Closed Curtain, Cannes 2014 coverage, Catherine Breillat's Abuse of Weakness, David Mackenzie's Starred Up, Chris Marker's Level Five, Woody Allen's Magic in the Moonlight

May-June 2014

David Michôd’s The Rover, Hong Kong midsection, Kelly Reichardt’s Night Moves, Tsai Ming-liang's Stray Dogs, Moustapha Akkad, John Wayne, the solution to "too many indies," James Gray's The Immigrant, Lukas Moodysson's We Are the Best!, Berlin 2014 coverage, SXSW 2014 coverage

March-April 2014

Wes Anderson’s The Grand Budapest Hotel, Lars von Trier’s Nymphomaniac, Albert Serra, The Sensory Ethnography Lab, Auteur Theory 2014, 39th Annual Grosses Gloss, Readers’ Poll Results, Stephen Chow’s Journey to the West, Errol Morris’s The Unknown Known, Jonathan Glazer’s Under the Skin, Eliza Hittman’s It Felt Like Love

January-February 2014

Martin Scorsese's The Wolf of Wall Street, Ralph Fiennes's The Invisible Woman, Bruce Dern interview, the Coen Brothers and Scott Rudin, Alain Guiraudie, Orson Welles's Too Much Johnson, Stanley Kauffmann, Ben Wheatley's A Field in England, populism in Hollywood