Sleight of hand: the recipient of Film at Lincoln Center’s 51st Chaplin Award has consistently performed a magic trick in ...

In character: the recipient of the 51st Chaplin Award discusses key roles, his approach to his craft, and the vision of the ...

If Satyajit Ray was the suitable boy of Indian art cinema—unthreatening, career-oriented, reliably tasteful—Ritwik Ghatak, his contemporary and principal rival, was its problem child. Where Ray’s ...

ROGER CORMAN: I started originally as a mes­senger at Fox. I came out of Stanford as an engi­neer, worked four days and quit. The only way I could get into the business was a messenger. I worked ...

Since Ross McElwee’s 1985 breakthrough Sherman’s March, in which he narrated his bumbling search for a girlfriend alongside reflections on the modern American South, the documentarian has honed a wry, ...

Michael Koresky is the senior curator of film at the Museum of the Moving Image, and a member of the National Society of Film Critics. He frequently writes for the Criterion Collection, and hosts and ...

The results are in for our 2025 poll of Film Comment’s contributors and colleagues! On this page you’ll find a selection of the individual ballots submitted by our voters for the Best Films of 2025 ...

The results are now in for our 2025 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 2025 in the ...

In the summer of 1961, struggling filmmaker and painter Ken Jacobs was hitchhiking north from New York to look for work at a resort. Unable to land a job, he continued to Provincetown, Massachusetts, ...

When you’re at the Locarno Film Festival and you mention that your mother grew up in these parts, and still owns your grandmother’s small, inconvenient, mosquitoey house up in the hills, people look ...

A lot happens in Hong Sangsoo’s latest, By the Stream. After a few features in which his plots seem to have been reduced to the barest minimum—like the beautiful sister-films In Water (2023) and In ...

Oliver Laxe’s fourth feature, Sirât, is the French-born Galician director’s first film to premiere in Competition at Cannes, where it’s been a highlight of the 2025 festival’s first week. A singular ...