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All Thumbs: Or, Is There a Future for Film Criticism?

By Richard Corliss
July 1, 2014
From the March/April 1990 issue: Richard Corliss attacks thumbs-up film criticism culture

Woman of Influence: Gena

By Beverly Walker
June 19, 2014

But Gena plays women the way women see themselves, slouching towards Bethlehem with schemes and dreams, ducking somebody’s fist, copping with an assortment of “others”—usually men and children—whose proprietary interest is frequently disguised as good intentions. Always multidimensional and complex.…

Keeping the Faith

By Joumane Chahine
April 29, 2014
From the Prophet Mohammed to Michael Myers and beyond: the unlikely two-track career of director-producer Moustapha Akkad

Alain Resnais

By Peter Harcourt
March 3, 2014
“Memory is kept alive with dreams”

Prince Rob

By Harlan Jacobson
February 12, 2014
Rob Reiner interviewed

Red Modernism

By J. Hoberman
February 4, 2014
In Hungarian master Miklós Jancsó's informal late-Sixties trilogy, geometry and choreography are key

Camera Man

By Stephen Schiff
November 7, 2013
From the July/August 1981 issue: Ed Pincus's Diaries (1971-1976)

50 Years of Film Comment

By Max Nelson
November 4, 2013
Back when it was just Vision: from the founding days of Gordon Hitchens to Richard Corliss

Interview: Jean-Luc Godard

By Gavin Smith
October 7, 2013
Text and image: In this 1996 interview, the filmmaker rambles with purpose through his foundational filmography

Heard It Through the Grapevine

By Tony Rayns
September 26, 2013
Jia Zhang-ke reads the uncensored news on Weibo and responds with the groundbreaking A Touch of Sin