Stop that train: the recursions of a painful past preoccupied many of the best films at this year’s edition of the Czech ...

On fire: at this year’s edition of the festival devoted to rediscoveries and restorations, distinctions between high and low ...

By Grady Hendrix in the March-April 2020 Issue P erpetually out of step, Shinya Tsukamoto goes where his gut leads him, handcrafting freaked-out sci-fi nightmares from 8mm, 16mm, 35mm, digital video, ...

It’s officially summertime, and with the AC blasting in multiplexes around the globe, Film Comment Editors Clinton Krute and Devika Girish invited two fellow respite seekers, critics Alana Pockros and ...

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

“The sun is the best bullfighter,” wrote Ernest Hemingway, “and without the sun the best bullfighter is not there. He is like a man without a shadow.” In Albert Serra’s Afternoons of Solitude (2024), ...

Circuit cities: the Mumbai-based collaborative art studio CAMP experiments with media technology in playful and political ways ...

Kwaneta Harris is a former nurse, business owner, and expat, now an incarcerated journalist, from Detroit. Her writings have appeared in a wide range of publications including This American Life, ...

A man of a certain age is dying. The problem is his heart. Not only does it no longer pump as it should, but it has proven itself a failure in matters of love. Because the man still hungers for love, ...

I don’t believe in the idea of guilty pleasures because I don’t think you should feel guilty about liking anything. (My boyfriend on the other hand says he definitely feels guilty about loving B.A.P.S ...

(Bruce McDonald, Canada, 2008)Early on a frigid Valentine’s morning in some desolate village within the Ontario hinterland, talk radio DJ Grant Mazzy (Stephen McHattie) is assailed by an unidentified ...

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 ...