Read issue Subscribe to access more than 300 print issues of Film Comment in our comprehensively indexed, searchable archive. January-February 2015 Department Editor’s Letter by Gavin Smith Opening Shots by Film Comment Critics’ Choice by Film Comment Column Hot Property: Bypass by Nicolas Rapold 10,000 Ways to Die: El Condor by Alex Cox Site Specifics: timebombtown.tumblr.com by Violet Lucca Restoration Row: Untitled (“The Wool Collage”) and Radharc by Max Nelson Fade Out: Michael Glawogger by Stefan Grissemann Encore: Henry King’s Margie by Farran Smith Nehme Sound & Vision: Andy Warhol and Nuri Bilge Ceylan by Margaret Barton-Fumo and Max Nelson A Face in the Crowd: Jill Banner by Chuck Stephens Graphic Detail: Best Posters of 2014 by Adrian Curry Feature Blood Simpletons: What We Do in the Shadows by Jonathan Romney The 50-Year March: Selma by Amy Taubin God Complex: Hard to Be a God by Anton Dolin Broken Contracts: Force Majeure by Michelle Orange The Thrill of the Chase: Writing Film History in the 21st Century by Scott Eyman The State of Art-House Exhibition by Jeff Berg Year in Review Final Cut 2014: The Best Films by Film Comment Final Cut 2014: State of the Art Taking the pulse of cinema in 2014 by Scott Foundas, Amy Taubin and Nicolas Rapold Final Cut 2014: Fun for the Whole Family by David Filipi Final Cut 2014: Terra Incognita Young Turks & Old Masters: an annotated Asian cinema hot list by Tony Rayns Final Cut 2014: Spooky Action at a Distance by Howard Hampton Screenings Still Alice by Molly Haskell Mommy by Joumane Chahine Tip Top by Nicholas Elliott The Duke of Burgundy by Steven Mears Into the Woods by Michael Koresky Timbuktu by Elisabeth Lequeret American Sniper by Chris Norris Short Takes: ’71 by Violet Lucca Short Takes: Predestination by Violet Lucca Short Takes: A Most Violent Year by Eric Hynes Short Takes: Wild Tales by Nicolas Rapold Short Takes: When Evening Falls on Bucharest or Metabolism by Nicolas Rapold Short Takes: Unbroken by Steven Mears Home Movies The Robert Drew Collection by Nicolas Rapold Starry Eyes by Sarah Mankoff The Promised Land by Patrick Friel Hickey & Boggs by Chuck Stephens The Changes by Gavin Smith Watership Down by David Filipi Middle of Nowhere by Amy Taubin The Guest by David Fear Lines of Wellington by Aaron Cutler 4 Adventures of Reinette and Mirabelle by Steven Mears Readings The Essential Raymond Durgnat by Paul Fileri Altman by Nicolas Rapold Criterion Designs by Eric Hynes Be Sand, Not Oil: The Life and Work of Amos Vogel
Read issue Subscribe to access more than 300 print issues of Film Comment in our comprehensively indexed, searchable archive. January-February 2015
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Final Cut 2014: State of the Art Taking the pulse of cinema in 2014 by Scott Foundas, Amy Taubin and Nicolas Rapold
Final Cut 2014: Terra Incognita Young Turks & Old Masters: an annotated Asian cinema hot list by Tony Rayns
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