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

Readings

Out of Frame

By Ed Halter
September 19, 2022
Frame rate: a long-awaited translation of the late French critic’s writings reveals a fascination with what’s included in the frame and what’s left out, and the moral and political stakes of that choice

Readings: After Afterimage

By Jonathan Mackris
August 9, 2022
Aesthetics and politics: a new reader from The Visible Press offers a bracing introduction to Afterimage's ever-curious, ever-relevant quest for the contours of a radical cinema

Readings: The Red Years of Cahiers du cinéma (1968-1973)

By Paul Grant
April 11, 2022
Starry-eyed: Daniel Fairfax's two-part history traces the enduring influence of the foundational French journal's most militant years

Readings: Films of Endearment

By Adam Nayman
May 17, 2021
Straight from the heart: Michael Koresky's new book is a stirring ode to movies, memories, and mothers

Readings: Out There

By Nick Pinkerton
May 8, 2020
Gene Youngblood’s classic opus shows what the future of moving images looked like a half-century ago

Readings: Video/Art: The First Fifty Years

By Joe Bucciero
May 8, 2020
Barbara London’s memoir/survey demonstrates how the MoMA curator helped shape video art as we know it

Readings: Unstoppable

By Bruce Bennett
May 8, 2020
Whirlwind composer Max Steiner brought passion to rich, classical scores

Excerpt from Get Out: The Complete Annotated Screenplay

By Film Comment
November 20, 2019
Read an exclusive selection from a new annotated edition of Jordan Peele’s screenplay for Get Out.

Readings: Warriors at Work

By Nellie Killian
January 22, 2019
Female filmmakers relate their efforts to make movies and forge a genuinely "new" Hollywood

Readings: Seduction: Sex, Lies, and Stardom in Howard Hughes’s Hollywood

By Carrie Rickey
November 12, 2018
A legendary mogul’s exploits are seen for what they are