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A Note from the New Editor

By Film Comment
May 2, 2016
The best is yet to come: on the exciting changes to our editorial team

Prince Among Men: Under the Cherry Moon

By Sean Doyle
April 29, 2016
Never hold back: what the follow-up to Purple Rain says about the artist's headlong passion as a performer

Artists + Making It

By Violet Lucca
April 22, 2016
The moment of creation: getting beyond the myth of tortured artistes in both nonfiction and fiction films

Private Property (1960)

By Farran Smith Nehme
April 22, 2016
Plastic houses for plastic people: rediscovering Leslie Stevens's long-lost film of sexual repression, class, and murderous intent in the 'burbs

Voice of Reason: Morgan Freeman

By Graham Fuller
April 18, 2016
An essay on the 43rd Chaplin Award honoree and star of Street Smart, Invictus, and Amistad

Her Man (1930)

By Farran Smith Nehme
April 7, 2016
Frankie and Johnny in Havana: Tay Garnett's nearly forgotten masterwork returns with a roiling sense of life and heart

Singing Samurai and Dancing Salarymen

By Marc Walkow
April 4, 2016
Land of 10,000 dances: Japan's unheralded genre, the musical film came in all shapes, sizes, colors, and tones

No Home Movie + Grief

By Violet Lucca
March 30, 2016
Mothership connection: Chantal Akerman’s eternal return to the love and trauma of the parent-child relationship

Blue Velvet + Homecoming

By Violet Lucca
March 25, 2016
I Remember Mama: the what-if alternative version of David Lynch's seminal suburban psychodrama, on its 30th anniversary

The Face of Bette Davis

By Farran Smith Nehme
March 16, 2016
Ignore the dirty looks: the eternal appeal of one of Hollywood's most distinctive visages