Film Comment

Share this: four critics weigh the negative and positive aspects of 24/7 instant opinionating

Nostalgia isn’t what it used to be: on the act of watching “old movies”

Two for the road: the director of Killer of Sheep and the director of Snowden discuss their careers and the relationship between art and politics

Kids in the hall: seven critics discuss Moonlight, Voyage of Time, Nocturama, American Honey, and much more at this year’s Toronto International Film Festival

Playing it close to the chest: on emerging trends in actors’ expression in the age of surveillance and reality TV

Live to tell: a special mix celebrating the (now-diminished) art of the movie theme song

Head cleaner: two former video store clerks (and two former customers) discuss the changes brought about by the rise and fall of VHS

In this economy? How narrative and documentary films depict wealth and poverty

Why so serious? An aural history of the musical counterpoint

Mortal video: the fraught terrain of capturing violence on film

Tea and sympathy: getting to the heart of what made the duo's best-loved adaptations so special

Hearts and minds: three of our authors offer insights into their features in the new issue

The famed film scholar talks about four writers who redefined film criticism (and cinema): Otis Ferguson, James Agee, Manny Farber, and Parker Tyler

Hindsight is 20/20: a look at the theatrical offerings of yesteryear

Flip it and reverse it: our panel of critics assess the Korean auteur’s beguiling romantic puzzles and his latest film, Right Now, Wrong Then

Double the fun: the directors of De Palma, Noah Baumbach and Jake Paltrow, discuss their relationship with the auteur—and then our critics hash out their own feelings about his work

Best in show? On the standouts, the overlooked, and utterly lousy of this year's festival, plus a one-on-one with the director of Love & Friendship

Funny, that: on the manifold embrace of comedy, new narrative structures, and the uneven forays into genre in this year's Cannes lineup

State of the art: a letter by Danièle Straub-Huillet recounts the careless and destructive attitudes towards conservation of paintings and historical documents

Out of time: the craft of capturing a holistic sense of the past