Roman Polanski‘s J'accuse, which dramatizes the infamous Dreyfus Affair, premiered to great acclaim in France—but soon led to ...

Water colors: the Argentine filmmaker pens and paints a tribute to Hong Sangsoo’s latest “river film," By the Stream ...

Peter Tscherkassky will be receiving the Underground Spirit Award for “outstanding work in independent filmmaking” at the Paliç European Film Festival this month, and it’s easy to see why. Ever since ...

This article appeared in the July 18, 2025 edition of The Film Comment Letter, our free weekly newsletter featuring original film criticism and writing. Sign up for the Letter here. Trains (Maciej ...

This article appeared in the July 11, 2025 edition of The Film Comment Letter, our free weekly newsletter featuring original film criticism and writing. Sign up for the Letter here. Bebo’s Girl (Luigi ...

Legendary scholar and critic Tom Gunning has changed the way we think about film history and the future of the medium, profoundly influencing generations of academics, artists, and cinephiles. On ...

Who shall I say is calling? Two NYFF62 standouts, Philippe Lesage’s Who by Fire and Nicolás Pereda’s Lázaro at Night, masterfully play with the slippage between the real and the fictional ...

As part of this year’s Locarno Film Festival, scholars at the Università della Svizzera italiana organized a conference called Cinema and Audiovisual Futures, with a series of panels and workshops ...

For Part 2 of our Summer Rep Report, film programmer Jessica Green joins to discuss Passing You By: Impostorism on Film, a new series she’s programmed at the Brooklyn Academy of Music. The series ...

Every year, during the first weekend of March, the programming team behind Missouri’s True/False Film Festival offers something of a rarity in the often overwhelming festival scene: a concise but ...

Every January, we like to take stock of holiday multiplex titles with an episode we call “New Year, New Releases.” For the 2024 edition, we invited FC Podcast veteran Alissa Wilkinson, a staff critic ...

Shutter speed: a new series at the Museum of Modern Art showcases a staggering range of Iranian films made before the revolution of 1979, including including films by Bahram Beyzaie, Amir Naderi, and ...