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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 2006

Christopher Guest’s For Your Consideration, Walerian Borowczyk, Claude Chabrol, on location in Hong Kong with Olivier Assayas, Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan, Martin Scorsese’s The Departed by Jean-Pierre Gorin, Eugène Green

September-October 2006

Sofia Coppola’s Marie Antoinette, Kelly Reichardt’s Old Joy, Paul Schrader’s film canon, Lino Brocka’s Insiang, Miklós Jancsó, Paul Arthur on Iraq war docs

July-August 2006

Includes Peter Whitehead by Henry K. Miller, 15 pages of Cannes, a eulogy for Shohei Imamura llumination by Chuck Stephens, Satyajit Ray by Philip Brophy, Godard at the Pompidou Center by Amy Taubin, Elaine May and Mike Nichols in conversation, Terrence Malick's The New World in Japanese smell-o-vision

May-June 2006

Robert Altman's Prairie Home Companion, The Death of Mr. Lazarescu plus Cristi Puiu interviewed, Guy Debord, Paul Greengrass on United 93, directing actors by Charles Grodin, reviews of The Road to Guantanamo, Lady Vengeance, The Proposition, Twelve and Holding

March-April 2006

Terrence Malick's The New World, David Mamet on likeability, Elaine May by Chuck Stephens, Terry Zwigoff by Howard Hampton, Readers' Poll Rants & Raves, Claude Chabrol's Comedy of Power, Maggie Cheung and Nick Nolte in Clean, Sundance 2005

January-February 2006

Lars von Trier and Claire Denis interviewed, Distributor Wanted: Regular Lovers, Best of 2004 Critics' Poll, the Catalunyan cinema scene, Carlos Reygadas's Battle in Heaven, Steven Soderbergh's Bubble, Woody Allen's Match Point, Slavoj Žižek's guilty pleasures, on the set of Richard Kelly's Southland Tales