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Sleep, My Love (1948)

By Farran Smith Nehme

March 2, 2016

Insanity plea: Douglas Sirk's mind-games drama asks Claudette Colbert to play against type, but that's okay

Overlooked Black Performers

By Film Comment

February 26, 2016

A roundtable discussion of notable, underappreciated actors and performances from the silent era to today

On Sidney Poitier in Edge of the City (1957)

By Steven Mears

February 26, 2016

As part of our series of actor appreciations, a look at an undersung role by the award-winning trailblazer

Fear + Ana Mendieta

By Violet Lucca

February 25, 2016

What are you afraid of? And other trenchant questions raised by a performance artist's films

On Joie Lee in Do the Right Thing (and More)

By Cassie da Costa

February 19, 2016

Continuing our spotlight on black performers, a look at the enduring presence of a very special collaborator with Spike Lee

Donald Trump’s The Art of the Deal: The Movie + W.

By Violet Lucca

February 18, 2016

Open season: the dos and don'ts of long-form political satire

A Room with a View (1985)

By Farran Smith Nehme

February 17, 2016

How soon is now: Merchant-Ivory's superb E.M. Forster adaptation celebrates the subtleties of the text and the pangs of love

Film Comment Selects: Andrzej Żuławski

By Daniel Bird

February 17, 2016

In memoriam: reflections upon the peerless Polish director of Cosmos, On the Silver Globe, and more

On Debbi Morgan in Eve’s Bayou (1997)

By Steven Mears

February 12, 2016

Second sight: Debbi Morgan upstages Samuel L. Jackson in Kasi Lemmons’s 1997 Southern Gothic, part of our Black History Month appreciation of outstanding performances

Parallel Universe: The Age of Dell

By David Filipi

February 10, 2016

When 2001: A Space Odyssey was a comic book, and a different empire of adaptations reigned