The great actor—and star of the new film Silent Friend—delves into his minimalist approach and remarkable career ...

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Toggle the menu Festival Dispatch Fairytale in the Supermarket. This year’s festival presents a cross-section of an industry ...

Colonialism has always been the subtext of the Argentine filmmaker's work. In her first documentary feature, it is the text ...

The multi-hyphenate star of The Christophers and Mother Mary reflects on what it’s like to do it all It was June 2020, three ...

Old and New Beginnings. The critic revisits his years as a Paris and London correspondent for the magazine. by Jonathan ...

“Our story deals with one of those queer tricks that Fate sometimes plays.” Buster Keaton’s 1924 seafaring silent comedy, The Navigator, opens with a title card bearing these words. The “queer trick” ...

The flight path into LAX runs east to west over the city. The planes line up around Vernon, cross the L.A. River, and skim the 405 freeway, landing just short of the beach. The passenger gets a pretty ...

The results are now in for our 2024 poll of Film Comment’s contributors! On this page, you’ll find our list of the 20 best films that were released either theatrically or virtually in 2024 in the ...

Read this story as part of the archived issue. Sirk’s extraordinary life has been marked by two abrupt and dramatic departures—at just those moments of dreamlike success that would have prompted most ...