New scene: the incarcerated journalist shares her painstaking journey to teach herself screenwriting in prison ...

Erika Balsom is a reader in film studies at King’s College London and the co-editor of Feminist Worldmaking and the Moving ...

Walks beside me: an inclusive, elastic understanding of modern queer lives emerges across Dag Johan ...

Buckley (herself Irish) plays Rose-Lynn, a Scottish ex-con with two children, despite being still on the uphill slope of her twenties, and a country-music obsessive whose ankle monitor– concealing ...

The results are in for our 2021 poll of Film Comment’ s contributors and colleagues! Our Top 20 lists in both the Released and Undistributed categories feature original appreciations from critics, as ...

By Donald Chase in the September-October 1997 Issue Not long before she died in 1981 at age 57, Gloria Grahame, who had acted in films signed by Frank Capra, Nicholas Ray, Josef von Sternberg, ...

Ari Aster does not consider himself a horror director. He’ll have to keep explaining why, though, as his debut feature Hereditary is one of the most effective examples of the genre in recent years.

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 ...

The results are in for our 2019 poll of Film Comment's contributors and editors! Our top 20 list includes excerpts from our features, reviews, and interviews about these films from across the year, as ...

The results are in for our 2023 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 2023 ...

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 ...

A director known for his studious craftsmanship as much as his experimental approach to mainstream storytelling, Todd Haynes is among the most exacting, technical filmmakers working in American cinema ...