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From the Archive

Two Views of Robert Altman

By Buck Henry
January 14, 2020
The late writer and actor on 1993’s Short Cuts and improvising Altmanian dialogue

Inside Film Comment

By Cliff Froehlich
December 17, 2019
The history of the magazine from the vantage point of the 100th issue, published in 1984

Highway 61 Revisited: Robert Frank

By Marlaine Glicksman
December 10, 2019
In this extensive 1987 interview, the late photographer and filmmaker explores the backroads of art and cinema

Women Directors: 150 Filmographies

By Richard Henshaw
December 3, 2019
Read a 1972 essay on women filmmakers, both obscure and well-known, along with detailed filmographies of major directors

Interview: An American Family

By Melinda Ward
November 26, 2019
The filmmakers discuss their groundbreaking documentary series in this 1973 conversation

Interview: Shirley Clarke

By Harriet Polt
November 19, 2019
From our spring 1964 issue, a conversation with the director on the economics of filmmaking, The Connection, and Cool World

Interview: Gene Hackman

By Beverly Walker
November 12, 2019
In this 1988 interview, the actor speaks at length on his remarkable career and practice

Subcontinental Divide: Ritwik Ghatak

By Jacob Levich
November 5, 2019
Revisit this 1988 essay on the undiscovered art of Indian cinema’s maverick, whose films are currently screening at Film at Lincoln Center

Elia Kazan’s America

By Estelle Changas
October 1, 2019
In this 1972 essay, Changas explores the director’s body of work and commercial decline. America America screens at the NYFF on October 2

Willing Sinner: Pedro Almodóvar

By Marcia Pally
September 17, 2019
With the autobiographical Pain and Glory on the horizon, revisit a 1988 interview with the Spanish auteur