In addition to premieres in the main Crystal Globe competition and the more experimental Proxima section (about which, more ...

A handful of films won multiple awards over the weekend as the 2016 Sundance Film Festival came to a close. Nate Parker’s The Birth of a Nation—the story of Nat Turner and the 1831 slave ...

Perhaps best known as the host of Ways of Seeing, the 1972 BBC program that introduced a generation to the ideological analysis of visual art, John Berger was one of the most important writers of the ...

Clarissa (Arie Esiri and Chuko Esiri, 2026). Courtesy of Neon. It’s not unusual for the Cannes Film Festival to open amidst controversy; Festival Director Thierry Frémaux alone can usually be relied ...

Cannes 2026 is nearing its close, but the Film Comment crew has not slowed down one bit as we continue to cut through the noise with dispatches, interviews, Podcasts, a special Cannes Critics’ Grid, ...

This year on the Croisette, it’s easy to lose count of the number of logos that precede a film’s opening credits, representing money patchworked together from across multiple countries, each ...

Cannes 2026 is in full swing and the Film Comment crew is on the ground, cutting through the noise with dispatches, interviews, Podcasts, a special Cannes Critics’ Grid, and much more. This year’s ...

Invigorated as I was by the conceptual prowess of Jane Schoenbrun’s Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma, my one major reservation is that I simply didn’t have that much fun—at least not as much as I ...

What would it mean for a film to meet the moment, especially a moment as calamitous as ours? To be honest, the very thought rings alarm bells: many recent movies that are said to have accomplished ...

1. Eighties New Wave: the late Seventies and early Eighties saw a huge influx of talent into Hong Kong from filmmakers who, for the most part, had studied overseas, and then returned to Hong Kong ...

Where do they all belong? The first time (though hardly the first time) these questions were posed, the “Her” and “Him” were a forlorn spinster interred without mourners and a clergyman whose ...

Proud to be an American: the director of NYFF selection Stray Dog and Winter's Bone discusses the changing face of the Ozarks and the heartland With Stray Dog, a kind of documentary follow-up to the ...