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

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 ...

No mission too difficult: the progenitor of the buddy comedy (and the only film to win an Academy Award for Best Comedy Direction) The plot of Two Arabian Knights unfolds in three segments of nearly ...

Throughout Song to Song, the latest film by Terrence Malick, movie people play music people trying to act authentic and impulsive. Motivated by Malick’s late career interest in capturing life on the ...

Home truth: the director of Mountains May Depart explains why it's his most personal film yet (and analyzes its Pet Shop Boys anthem) With Mountains May Depart, Jia Zhang-ke turns his powers of social ...

Our Best Undistributed Films list, voted on by Film Comment contributors worldwide, recognizes the new films that were viewed—at festivals, or elsewhere—in 2024 but did not have U.S. distribution at ...

Read this story as part of the archived issue. It’s tempting to describe David Fincher’s stunning, mordantly funny, formally dazzling new movie Fight Club as the first film of the next century and ...

The experience of watching a Zulawski film is exponentially rewarding when you’ve had the pleasure of seeing more than one. As with all dense cinema—and much of Zulawski’s work is packed with wordy ...