Train tracks: the Austrian experimental filmmaker discusses using found footage to interrogate and play with the past ...

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, ...

The results are in for our 2023 poll of Film Comment’s contributors! On this page, you’ll find our list of the best films that were released either theatrically or virtually in 2023 in the United ...

The results are in for our 2022 poll of Film Comment’s contributors! Our Top 20 lists in both the Released and Undistributed categories feature original appreciations from our critics, as well as ...

On the edge: this year’s competition featured new work from Petzold, Porumboiu, and Hong, as well as new voices from around the world ...

Ever since Park Chan-wook’s 2003 Cannes Grand Prix winner Oldboy —a film that epitomized the New Korean Cinema and turned the hammer-wielding Choi Min-sik into an icon—he has maintained a reputation ...

Art of the Real selection Manakamana screens Saturday, April 12th at the Film Society of Lincoln Center. Harvard’s Sensory Ethnography Lab (SEL) continues to impress. The intersection of serious ...

Premised on illusion and promising endless reanimation, cinema is often called the ghostliest of mediums. Ghosts are themselves cinematic in essence, automatic disruptions in space and time. Movies ...

Michael Sragow is a contributing editor to Film Comment and writes its Deep Focus column. He is a member of the National Society of Film Critics and the Los Angeles Film Critics Association. He also ...

This interview begins a series with influential cinematographers who attended the 2016 Camerimage International Film Festival of the Art of Cinematography in Bydgoszcz, Poland, in November. To ...