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

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 ...

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

“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” ...

I’ve spent the last decade staying away from the films of M. Night Shyamalan. I loved his early ones, even the much-maligned The Village, with its insane double twist and loopy ...

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 ...

Home truth: the director of Mountains May Depart explains why it's his most personal film yet (and analyzes its Pet Shop Boys anthem) With Mountains May Depart, Jia Zhang-ke turns his powers of social ...

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Read this story as part of the archived issue. This story is part of the July-August 2019 issue of Film Comment.

Read this story as part of the archived issue. This story is part of the July-August 2019 issue of Film Comment.

Although he made one movie about mad love—The Curious Case of Benjamin Button—David Fincher never seemed a director deeply concerned with intimate relationships between women and men. His primary ...