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.
Elia Kazan’s America, Stockholm journal, Elia Kazan interview, Ernst Lubitsch’s Thirties films, Penelope Gilliatt interview, special midsection on cameramen, Carl Dreyer, Jacques Tourneur, Douglas Sirk’s Imitation of Life
Paul Schrader on film noir, Robert Aldrich interview, Cuban cinema, Klute, Dziga Vertov midsection, George Cukor interview
Jean Cocteau, Stanley Kubrick interview, paranoia in Hollywood, Jacques Demy, Ernst Lubitsch in the Thirties, lost films, Alice Adams, Happiness, Robin Wood
John Ford’s late films, Alexander Dovzhenko, Roger Corman interview, Willard Maas interview, Monkey Business, Love Affair and An Affair to Remember, Jean-Luc Godard, Jean-Pierre Gorin, and Gérard Martin’s Wind from the East
André Bazin and long takes, special sections on F.W. Murnau, Orson Welles, and Max Ophuls
Yasujiro Ozu, François Truffaut, Bruce Baillie, visual anthropology, Margaret Mead, Tim Asch, James Whale, Andrew Sarris on The Searchers
Special issue on screenwriting, Borden Chase interview, James Poe interview, Anita Loos, Ben Hecht, Dudley Nichols, Preston Sturges in the Thirties
Andrew Sarris on the auteur theory in 1970, Ken Russell interview, Milos Forman interview, David Bordwell on The Circus, Paul Jensen on Frankenstein, Richard Koszarski on Trouble In Paradise, Molly Haskell on Stage Fright, Stephen Farber on Lilith, William Pechter on The Wild Bunch, Bette Davis and William Wyler
Special issue on film in Sweden, Ingmar Bergman on his filmmaking process, Greta Garbo, Duet for Cannibals, Victor Sjostrom
Arthur Barron, Boris Karloff, Ingmar Bergman and E.T.A. Hoffman, young German film, Ernst Lubitsch
2001: A Space Odyssey, Bruce Conner, Sidney Poitier, Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner, For Love of Ivy, Charlie Chaplin’s Monsieur Verdoux, John Schlesinger, student films, an appreciation of Max Ophüls, reviews of Pauline Kael’s Kiss Kiss Bang Bang and Andrew Sarris’s The American Cinema, Directors and Directions 1929-1968
Film preservation at the Musem of Modern Art, Eadweard Muybridge’s contribution to the motion picture, the serious business of being funny, student film production, Warrendale, Titicut Follies, television breaks a new art form, Bergamo festival
Film in China, Uzbek documentaries, the works of and interview with Susumu Hani, Vietnam War films and documentary photography
Roman Polanski, Jerzy Skolimowski, a tribute to Boris Barnet, building Soviet movie theaters, Serge Parajanov on Shadows of our Forgotten Ancestors, Evelyn Gerstein on Ivan the Terrible, Czechoslovakian cinema, Istvan Szabo interview
Extensive Satyajit Ray interview, The Face of a Genius, experimental film, the history of the National Legion of Decency, a debate on the controversial Catholic school documentary Every Seventh Child
Kennedy and Warren Commission documentaries, A Time for Burning, Troublemakers, Gerald Temaner and Gordon Quinn’s Home for Life, Ingmar Bergman’s Persona, interview with Bergman, interviews with Jean Rouch, direct cinema, Japanese underground film
Propaganda films about the war in Vietnam, Viet Cong Films, Why Vietnam?, The Rising Storm, While Brave Men Die, Dziga Vertov, Eliza Kazan and HUAC, Cannes, Carl Theodor Dreyer interview, Federico Fellini interview, review of Chaplin’s autobiography
Special section on Pier Paolo Pasolini, The Gospel According to St. Matthew, Peter Watkins interview, the Hollywood Blacklist, pornography in film
Ralph Nelson interview, Otto Preminger, Francois Truffaut, Tokyo Olympiad, editing cinéma vérité, the film lectures of Slavko Vorkapich, civil liberties, La Peau Douce, Une Femme Mariée, Le Bonheur
Robert Rossen, Michael Roemer, Robert Young, Richard Leacock interview, Willard Van Dyke interview, Letters from The River, Jacques Demy’s The Umbrellas of Cherbourg, Ingmar Bergman
Extensive consideration of Leni Riefenstahl, contemporary German film, Hiroshi Teshigahara’s Woman in the Dunes, Michelangelo Antonioni’s Red Desert, Michael Roemer’s Nothing but a Man
The second New York Film Festival by Andrew Sarris, Roberto Rossellini, the BFI, the Maysles Brothers discuss Cinéma Vérité, the Spanish film scene, Venice Film Festival, Bruce Baillie, Gregory Markopoulos, film censorship and exhibitors
Anniversary awards winners, Ernest Pintoff, Moravia on Italian Film, the death of Mickey Mouse, Carl Foreman in Israel, toward visual cinema, Věra Chytilová’s Something Different, Mario Monicelli’s The Organiser, Ingmar Bergman’s The Silence, Nelson Perreira Dos Santos’s Vidas Secas, Jacques Demy’s The Umbrellas of Cherbourg, François Truffat’s The Soft Skin
Exploitation films, children’s film, the Maysles brothers and “direct cinema,” Cannes, interview with Shirley Clarke, cinematic politics, filmmaking in Bulgaria, film censorship in the nation’s capital
