Erika Balsom is a reader in film studies at King’s College London and the co-editor of Feminist Worldmaking and the Moving ...

Film Comment hosted the author Malcolm Harris for a special event celebrating the launch of his latest book, What’s Left: ...

Walks beside me: an inclusive, elastic understanding of modern queer lives emerges across Dag Johan Haugerud’s Sex/Dreams/Love trilogy ...

By David Sterritt in the July-August 2000 Issue Abbas Kiarostami deserves more credit than any other single director for fueling the recent rise of Iranian cinema, arguably the most dramatic film ...

Like many of Aki Kaurismäki’s films, Fallen Leaves is a slender tale of underclass melancholy. There’s little dialogue but plentiful music, often emanating from a jukebox. All of the furnishings seem ...

By Jordan Cronk in the January-February 2020 Issue E arly in Pedro Costa’s 2014 film Horse Money, a Cape Verdean woman named Vitalina recounts in detail the heartrending story of her late arrival to ...

By Gavin Smith in the January-February 1998 Issue The elusive search for peace, for equilibrium, has always been latent in the films of Martin Scorsese. But still, what does it mean for American ...

After the film’s screening at Cannes, Film Comment’ s Wang Muyan sat down with Yinan to discuss the meaning and appeal of crime stories, the director’s early exposure to cinema, the theme of illusory ...

“There are many ways in which Zama, [Lucrecia] Martel’s first feature in nine years, represents a departure for the Argentine writer-director,” I wrote in “When All Is Lost,” my September/October 2017 ...

This article appeared in the November 2, 2023 edition of The Film Comment Letter, our free weekly newsletter featuring original film criticism and writing. Sign up for the Letter here. Vampyr (Carl ...

It’s been 25 years since the theatrical release of Julie Dash’s Daughters of the Dust, which had a week-long run at Film Forum in 1991. Dash’s groundbreaking film follows the Peazant family in the ...

To what degree were you thinking about the many movies that have been made about a male artist and the woman who inspired him? I didn’t have to think much about that because basically we know by heart ...