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Founded in 1962 and originally released as a quarterly, Film Comment features reviews and analysis of mainstream, art-house, and avant-garde filmmaking from around the world.

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November-December 2004

Pedro Almodóvar interview, New York Film Festival 2004 coverage, special section on Korean film, Russ Meyer obituary, A Very Long EngagementCaché

September-October 2004

I Heart Huckabees plus an online-only interview with David O. Russell, Peter Kubelka, Ingmar Bergman’s Saraband, the Shaw Brothers, David Gordon Green and Undertow, Mike Leigh’s Vera Drake, Marlon Brando, Gregory Markopoulos, The Flaherty Seminar, Catherine Breillat’s Anatomy of Hell, Hong Kong cinema scene, Paul Giamatti interviewed

July-August 2004

Michael Moore's Fahrenheit 9/11, Cannes 2004 coverage by Kent Jones and Gavin Smith; Spike Lee's She Hate Me, Stepford Wives

May-June 2004

The Big Red One restored, midsection on the films of Maurice Pialat, The Passion of the Christ, Before Sunset, Peter Watkins, Rome cinema journal, Shaun of the Dead, Berlin, New Directors/New Films

March-April 2004

Michael Caine profiled, features on Sundance and Rotterdam 2004, Charlie Kaufman’s Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Joseph Losey, Marco Bellocchio, Nigerian videofilm culture, Guy Maddin’s The Saddest Music in the World, Barry Gifford on Lost Highway the opera, Hou Hsiao-Hsien’s Café Lumière

January-February 2004

The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, Best of 2003, The Battle of Algiers, Jean-Claude Brisseau, Timothy Carey, William A. Wellman, Gregory Markopoulos’s  The Temenos