In Memoriam

Jonas Mekas (1922-2019)

By Film Comment

January 23, 2019

Mekas dedicated his life to supporting cinema as an art form, and there are few who had as large of an influence on the medium as he did

In Memoriam: Nicolas Roeg

By Sheila O'Malley

January 2, 2019

The cinematographer turned director blew our minds to show better what makes us tick

In Memoriam: Kira Muratova

By Sergei Loznitsa

September 24, 2018

The Ukrainian filmmaker summoned forth an explosive cinema of displacement and daring

Remembering Pierre Rissient

By Bertrand Tavernier

May 15, 2018

True passion: a close friend remembers the French cinephile’s contributions to the medium

Labor of Love

By Kent Jones

February 23, 2018

Dan Talbot followed his passion for cinema against the tide of a changing industry

In Memoriam: Paolo Villaggio

By Giovanni Vimercati

August 7, 2017

Industrial strength comedy: a remembrance of the Italian comedian who satirized soulless corporatism and Marxist sacred cows

In Memoriam: Vito Acconci

By Chris Shields

May 8, 2017

Close talker: a few words on the performance artist and the cinematic immediacy of his art

In Memoriam: Jonathan Demme

By Film Comment

April 27, 2017

Remembering the director of Stop Making Sense, Something Wild, and Silence of the Lambs

In Memoriam: Peter Hutton

By Max Nelson

December 23, 2016

The home and the world: the filmmaker, who passed away this year, traveled the world by camera, gathering observational landscapes from the Catskills to Bangladesh

Meta Critic

By Jonathan Rosenbaum

February 24, 2012

Novelist and film writer Gilbert Adair (1944-2011), an irreplaceable literary dandy