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Interview: David O. Russell
“The art of survival is a story that never ends,” notes the charismatic con artist Irving Rosenfeld (Christian Bale) late in David O. Russell’s American Hustle—a sentiment as applicable to...
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Festivals: Berlin Blog #3
Boyhood It wasn’t until the festival’s penultimate day that the Competition delivered a film truly worth raving about: Richard Linklater’s Boyhood. Shot over a period of almost 12 years, Boyhood...
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Film Comment Selects: Blood and Guts Preview
Metro Manila The genre film is a recombinatory art, experimentally joining disparate well-worn elements. It has made Frankenstein mingle with everyone from Abbott & Costello to Aaron Eckhart’s...
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Film Comment Loves You
On Valentine’s Day we asked our Twitter followers that all-important question: what movie do you show a potential romantic partner to impress them, or gauge their tastes? The prize was the chance to...
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Rep Diary: Je t’aime, je t’aime
“For flowers do not age honestly like leaves, which lose nothing of their beauty after they have died; flowers wither like old and overly made-up dowagers, and they die ridiculously on stems that...
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Review: In Secret
Desire—especially in the 19th-century novel—is never simple. Complicated by rigid social mores, relationships are rarely bilateral, and passion is frequently paired with deceit. Emile Zola’s...
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Futures and Pasts #2: The Carey Treatment
The Carey Treatment screens on 35mm on Tuesday, February 25 as part of Film Comment Selects. To get to 1972’s The Carey Treatment, Blake Edwards’s bitter goodbye to American studio filmmaking, we’ll...
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Film of the Week: Child’s Pose
Child’s Pose, last year’s winner of the Golden Bear in Berlin, begins with two elegantly dressed middle-aged women sitting smoking, as one of them complains about being mistreated by the rebellious...
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Review: Pompeii
The corporate overlords in Resident Evil: Retribution constructed CGI simulacra of major cities to test the death rate of their viruses. Pompeii could be another room in the Umbrella Corporation’s...
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Film Comment Selects: From the Source
For a complete lineup as well as showtimes and tickets, go here. We're nearing the halfway mark of Film Comment Selects, our annual roundup—hosted by the Film Society of Lincoln Center—of festival...
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Rep Diary: The City Without Jews
The 1924 Austrian silent film The City Without Jews begins with stark, documentary-like scenes of crowds picketing in the streets. Their signs protest their lack of jobs and the rising value of the...
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Interview: Hany Abu-Assad
It’s been over a decade since the filmmaker Hany Abu-Assad shifted from documentary to fiction with Rana’s Wedding (02) and then tested the boundaries between the two with Ford Transit (03), early in...
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Review: The Wind Rises
While many critics have emphasized the thematic maturity of Hayao Miyazaki’s wartime drama The Wind Rises by noting the absence of Studio Ghibli’s trademark mythic creatures, the film can’t help but...
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Christian Petzold’s “Ghosts” trilogy
Ghosts Money—who has it, who lacks it, and what those who need it are willing to do to get it—is a constant, corrosive presence in the work of German filmmaker Christian Petzold. In the three movies...
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Interview: Denis Villeneuve
Sneak-previewing as part of the closing night of Film Comment Selects, Denis Villeneuve’s new film Enemy stars Jake Gyllenhaal as a man confronted by existential conundrums and deep-seated inner-fears...
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Film of the Week: The Lunchbox
Traditional wisdom has it that the more culturally specific a story, the more likely it is to attain universal resonance. Ritesh Batra’s The Lunchbox could be used as Exhibit A to support that...
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Review: Non-Stop
Liam Neeson continues to pistol-whip his way across the globe in Non-Stop, this time on a flight from New York to London. The lantern-jawed Irish actor has unexpectedly become a modern-day Charles...
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Futures & Pasts: Darkman and The Shadow
Darkman Sam Raimi, 1990, USA Scream Factory The Shadow Russell Mulcahy, 1994, USA Shout! Factory The Fantastic Four Last week, the Internet was rocked by shockwaves on a magnitude not seen since...
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Film Comment Readers’ Poll 2013
Our ever-vigilant readers would like to make a correction: swapping the first and second slots of our Critics’ Poll, the final tally found 12 Years a Slave on top instead of Inside Llewyn Davis. Close...
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Interview: Alfonso Cuarón
This is a transcript of "An Evening with Alfonso Cuarón," which took place on February 13th and was moderated by Gavin Smith. Gravity With the advent of CGI, people become used to the idea that...
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