Sign up for the Film Comment Letter today to get original film writing delivered to your inbox every week! >>

Published by Film at Lincoln Center

Steven Mears

Fassbinder Diary #2: Pioneers and Merchants

By Steven Mears
May 24, 2014
All in a year’s work: Pioneers in Ingolstadt and The Merchant of Four Seasons

Review: The Retrieval

By Steven Mears
April 8, 2014
Brother against brother: character battles convention in this fraught Civil War–era coming-of-age tale

ND/NF: Communal Living

By Steven Mears
March 28, 2014
Somebody’s always watching in the three very different worlds in Of Horses and Men, History of Fear, and Quod Erat Demonstrandum

ND/NF: Character Acting, or the Art of the Eccentric

By Steven Mears
March 20, 2014
More than good shtick: digging into the performances that give three New Directors/New Films selections some added flavor