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Declarations of Independence: Robert Redford

The remarkable career and life of Robert Redford, American original

by Beverly Walker

Declarations of Independence: Robert Redford

Game Changers: Camera Movement

In Spring 2011 filmmaker Paul Schrader taught a 15-week course at Columbia University, “Films That Changed Filmmaking,” about the influence of technology on film through the history of cinema. Working with Robert Brink, Schrader has now produced a series of articles based on the talks for publication in Film Comment. (Read parts one, two, or three)

by Paul Schrader

Game Changers: Camera Movement

Department

Editor’s Letter by Gavin Smith

Opening Shots by Film Comment

Trivial Top 20: Best Final Performances by Film Comment

Critics’ Choice by Film Comment

Column

Hot Property: Mercuriales by Nicolas Rapold

10,000 Ways to Die: Il Sorpasso by Alex Cox

Site Specifics: whocaresaboutactresses.tumblr.com by Violet Lucca

Restoration Row: The Cow by Max Nelson

Hot Set: Magical Thinking with Apichatpong Weerasethakul by Giovanni Marchini Camia

Guilty Pleasures by Peter Strickland

Sound & Vision: Jonny Greenwood by David Zuckerman

Sound & Vision: Little Animals by Nicolas Rapold

A Face in the Crowd: Louis Jean Heydt by Chuck Stephens

Graphic Detail: Philip Castle by Adrian Curry

Year in Review

Readers’ Poll by Film Comment

Feature

The Texture of Genius: Bertrand Bonello’s Saint Laurent by Nathan Lee

Actions Speak Louder Than Words by Kent Jones

Clouds of Sils Maria by Howard Hampton

A Spectre Is Haunting Hollywood by Roger Smith

Interview

John Boorman by Graham Fuller

Festival Coverage

Sundance Film Festival: Mountain Highs by Amy Taubin

Sundance Film Festival: Easy Does It by Laura Kern

Rotterdam International Film Festival: Impasses by Gavin Smith

Screenings

White God by Max Nelson

Merchants of Doubt by Amy Taubin

While We’re Young by Emma Myers

True Story by Chris Norris

Short Takes: Effie Gray by Glenn Kenny

Short Takes: Faults by Glenn Kenny

Short Takes: The Hunting Ground by Nick Davis

Short Takes: The Salvation by Laura Kern

Short Takes: The Kidnapping of Michel Houellebecq by Nicolas Rapold

Short Takes: Kumiko, The Treasure Hunter by Violet Lucca

Home Movies

Night Will Fall by Graham Fuller

Ned Rifle by Emma Myers

Silent Ozu: Three Crime Dramas by Chuck Stephens

The Soft Skin by Jackson Arn

Top Five by David Fear

Momoe’s Lips & Sex Hunter: Wet Target by Marc Walkow

Nightcrawler by Steven Mears

Ride the Pink Horse by Nick Pinkerton

The Authentic Trial of Carl-Emmanuel Jung by Patrick Friel

Readings

Dalton Trumbo by Kevin Canfield

The Authentic Death and Contentious Afterlife of Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid: The Untold Story of Peckinpah’s Last Western Film by Kevin Canfield

Mise en Scène and Film Style: From Classical Hollywood to New Media Art by Noah Isenberg

A Kim Jong-Il Production by J. Hoberman

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Film of the Week

by Jonathan Romney

Far From Men by Jonathan Romney

Iris by Jonathan Romney

Full Moon in Paris by Jonathan Romney

Rebels of the Neon God by Jonathan Romney

While We’re Young by Jonathan Romney

It Follows by Jonathan Romney

Bombast

by Nick Pinkerton

Pop-Pop-Pop-Popular by Nick Pinkerton

Decker by Nick Pinkerton

D.W. Griffith’s America by Nick Pinkerton

Posthumous Performance by Nick Pinkerton

Notes on the Vanity Film by Nick Pinkerton

Deep Focus

by Michael Sragow

Avengers: Age of Ultron by Michael Sragow

Ex Machina by Michael Sragow

Tangerines by Michael Sragow

Clouds of Sils Maria by Michael Sragow

Furious 7 by Michael Sragow

White God by Michael Sragow

The Gunman by Michael Sragow

Cinderella by Michael Sragow

The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel by Michael Sragow

Director Interview

George Armitage by Nick Pinkerton

Robert Redford by Beverly Walker

Naji Abu Nowar by Yonca Talu

Laura Citarella & Verónica Llinás by Alejandro Veciana

Nick Broomfield by Margaret Barton-Fumo

Tsai Ming-liang by Huei-Yin Chen

James B. Harris by Nick Pinkerton

ND/NF Bill & Turner Ross by Steven Mears

Larry Clark (Part Two) by Nick Pinkerton

Bill Pankow by Violet Lucca

Lisandro Alonso by Nicolas Rapold

Larry Clark (Part One) by Nick Pinkerton

Benjamin Crotty by Paul Dallas

ND/NF Yohei Suzuki by Julian Ross

ND/NF Kornél Mundruczó by Yonca Talu

Jessica Hausner by David Gregory Lawson

ND/NF Virgil Vernier by Nicholas Elliott

ND/NF Marielle Heller by Emma Myers

Eugène Green by Violet Lucca

Michael Almereyda by Steven Mears

Benoît Jacquot by Steven Mears

Jean Paul Civeyrac by Nicholas Elliott

Miguel Llansó and Yohannes Feleke by Tina Poglajen

Cristián Jiménez by Alejandro Veciana

ND/NF Joel Potrykus by Jordan Osterer

Essay

The Soderbergh Variations: 2001, Recut by Jackson Arn

Festivals: L’immagine e la parola at Locarno by José Teodoro

Kitchen Sink Cinema: Artist-Run Film Laboratories by Genevieve Yue

Exactly Two Questions With: Viggo Mortensen by Nicolas Rapold

Back Home: Les Blank’s A Poem Is a Naked Person by Daniel Eagan

Kaiju Shakedown

by Grady Hendrix

Kuei Chih-hung by Grady Hendrix

The Ramsays of Bollywood by Grady Hendrix

Story of Sorrow and Sadness by Grady Hendrix

Festival Dispatch

Art of the Real: Edgardo Cozarinsky by Max Nelson

Art of the Real: Edvard Munch by Peter Watkins by Max Nelson

Art of the Real: City Ways by Jackson Arn

Festivals: Punto de Vista by Jay Kuehner

Festivals: Rotterdam 2015 by Giovanni Vimercati

Festivals: Sundance by Vicki Robinson

Video Column

by Violet Lucca

Video Essay: Walerian Borowczyk by Violet Lucca

Film Review

Films of the Week: Kumiko & Jauja by Jonathan Romney

Films of the Week: Two from Rendez-Vous by Jonathan Romney

Review: The Lesson by Hans Morgenstern

Notebook

by Eugene Hernandez

The Future of Film by Eugene Hernandez

Announcement

by Film Comment

The New Issue: March/April 2015 by Film Comment

Year in Review

by Film Comment

Readers’ Poll: Your Comments by Film Comment