Milestones: a new book republishes a free-flowing conversation between the noted French critic and the American filmmaker ...

Scenes from the class struggle: a new repertory series at MoMA asks its viewers to connect Portugal’s political revolution to ...

Johan Grimonprez's Soundtrack to a Coup D'Etat is a grim, exciting history lesson that announces itself with percussive ...

I had the last of my six colposcopy surgeries—a procedure that cuts out cancerous cells from a cervix—in December 2020. To ...

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Here at Film Comment, we live by Serge Daney’s motto: “Cinephilia is not only a particular relationship to cinema, it is a relationship to the world through cinema.” We love moving images because they ...

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Within moments of meeting a woman on a train, Norman Oppenheimer offers—unsolicited— to introduce her to three prominent people. That’s how Norman operates: he’s a “fixer,” a seemingly well-connected ...

The past is full of surprises. It was news to me—bracingly delivered by Northern Lights (1978)—that more than a century ago, North Dakota birthed a socialist-inspired farm-labor movement that sought ...

In the early 1920s, masses of people sought comfort in spiritualism, consulting mediums to communicate with the dearly departed. God and the afterlife were still in play, and most families had ...