This question has haunted the Berlinale since its founding in 1951; and it became newly charged two years ago, amid a call for a boycott of state-funded German cultural institutions, and certain ...

1. Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia Sam Peckinpah, 19742. Claire’s Knee Eric Rohmer, 19703. Faces John Cassavetes, 19684. Eyes Without a Face ...

Joe Swanberg’s reputation in most of the critical community—as a hack and a pseudo-philosopher whose gaze is permanently affixed to his navel and to those of the friends who play versions of ...

(Directed by Mario Monicelli; screenplay by Monicelli and Age Scarpelli; produced by Franco Cristaldi; distributed by Walter Reade-Sterling, Inc.; 226 minutes; b/w.) By Yale Udoff in the Summer 1964 ...

The big stateside breakthrough that Johnnie To’s American fans have been hoping for no longer seems possible. To is as talented an action director as Kathryn Bigelow or Michael Mann, yet he was ...

Ranked according to the time of their last feature film release ...

It’s a sign of how quickly things change in the movie business, but there was no such thing conceptually as a “reboot.” That idea didn’t exist when I came to look at Batman. That’s new terminology.

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In my 2008 book Pictures at a Revolution, I approached the dramatic changes in movie culture in the 1960s through the development, production, and reception of each of the five nominees for 1967’s ...

This article is part of Film Comment’s Best of 2023 coverage. Read all the lists here. Below are 10 film restorations, preservations, reprints, and remasters that I was able to see in 2023. These ...