Articles published in the weekly Film Comment Letter between 2021—2025 have been organized into quarterly issues for the archive.
The Afterlives of Éclair
Factory dreams: the artist-run collective L’Abominable imagines a future for the film laboratory in the ruins of the legendary French studio by Alice Lovejoy
Paint work: Kelly Reichardt's The Mastermind is fun and funny, but it also just might be her most chilling portrait of America to date by Clinton Krute
It starts at home: a new DVD collection charts the artist Michael Smith’s enduring interest in the life and times of his hapless everyman alter-ego by Michael Blair
Can I go again? The writer-director discusses his latest, a screwball caper—with a touch of Baumbachian melancholy—about a regretful movie star played by George Clooney
What time is it?: critics and programmers Miriam Bale and Adam Piron join to discuss PTA’s latest's successes and failures, how it fits into his larger body of work, and more
Pixel visions: Dry Leaf, Rose of Nevada, and Levers present us with surfaces so textured and tactile that they have the physicality of a terrain by Imogen Sara Smith
Simultaneous dimensions: three films at this year’s NYFF made by or about Palestinians pry open apertures from which we must make sense of Gaza’s horizon as intimately tied to our own by Kareem Estefan
Unchained: Ramesh Sippy’s swashbuckling 1975 epic mashes together tropes from westerns, dacoit films, silent comedies, and musicals to create an entirely unique cult classic by Uday Bhatia
Refusing the waves: Milagros Mumenthaler’s The Currents and Mascha Schilinski’s Sound of Falling revive the image of the self-drowned woman with a bracing literalism by Shonni Enelow
Signed, sealed, delivered: critics Molly Haskell, J. Hoberman, and Beatrice Loayza join for a spirited wrap-up analysis of the highlights and lowlights from this year's lineup
Framed: Kelly Reichardt, Kent Jones, and Lucio Castro join from NYFF63 to discuss the temporality of cinema versus the other arts, the challenge of being a working artist, and more
