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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.
Alice Rohrwacher’s Happy as Lazzaro, Barry Jenkins & If Beale Street Could Talk, Hirokazu Kore-eda’s Shoplifters, Willem Dafoe and Leigh Ledare interviews, Jean-Paul Belmondo vs. Alain Delon, Jacques Tourneur
56th NYFF Special Section, including Burning plus a Steven Yeun interview, ROMA, The Ballad of Buster Scruggs, and Monrovia, Indiana; Chick Strand, Caniba, Wealth on Screen, Teaching the Films of 1999
BlacKkKlansman, Spike Lee interview, Sorry to Bother You, Bi Gan’s Long Day’s Journey Into Night, Paul Schrader letters, drone cinema, Isao Takahata, Ingmar Bergman by Olivier Assayas
Let the Sunshine In, Claire Denis and Juliette Binoche interviews, Cocote and Latin American cinema, Hereditary, Marlene Dietrich, mothers and melodrama, Paul Schrader’s First Reformed, Peter Nestler
Ryan Coogler’s Black Panther, Olivier Assayas on Wong Kar Wai, The Death of Stalin, Helen Mirren, Bill Gunn’s Personal Problems, 2017 at the box office, Amy Taubin on Sundance and Spoor, The Fall’s Mark E. Smith, Dan Talbot in memoriam, Arnaud Desplechin’s Ismael’s Ghosts
Paul Thomas Anderson’s Phantom Thread, the best (and worst) of 2017, Valeska Grisebach’s Western, The Post and the Spielberg procedural, Jia Zhangke’s mogul ambitions and China's multiplexes, interviews with Philippe Garrel and stuntperson Heidi Moneymaker, Armando Iannucci on The Death of Stalin, Gary Giddins on Taras Bulba
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