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.
Martha Coolidge’s Rambling Rose, Frank Borzage’s Lucky Star, Claude Chabrol, Citizen Kane: can anyone be trusted?, spiritual collegiate encounters with Bresson, Sidney M. Goldin and Aubrey Scotto’s Uncle Moses, festival beat, Marcel Carné interviewed, Life with Video, Henri-Georges Clouzot’s The Wages of Fear, on the set of David Lynch’s Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me
Cannes 1991, Gus Van Sant, David Lean, Mike Leigh, the Coen Brothers, Don Siegel by Andrew Sarris and Clint Eastwood, taking auteur theory to task, Nicholas Ray on Nicholas Ray, Sean Penn interviewed, Terry Gilliam’s Guilty Pleasures, Life with Video
Milos Forman, Andrew Sarris on Billy Wilder, David Thomson on Graham Greene, Thelma & Louise, Marlon Brando, Danny Aiello interview, Nestor Almendros on Sergei Eisenstein, Hanna Schygulla, Jacques Demy
Mike Nichols interviewed, Xavier Koller’s Journey of Hope, Wendell B. Harris Jr.’s Chameleon Street, film censorship, Jaime Humberto Hermosillo’s The Summer of Miss Forbes, Bernardo Bertolucci and Paul Bowles, Michael Curtiz’s Casablanca, introducing Life with Video, Oliver Stone, John Huston’s The List of Adrian Messenger, Brian DePalma
An appreciation of Audrey Hepburn by Molly Haskell, Oscar predix, George Sluizer’s The Vanishing, Republic Pictures, Albert Brooks interviewed, Richard Corliss on literary adaptations, remembering Irene Dunne, Joan Bennett, Stanley Kubrick’s Spartacus, Zhang Yimou, Eric Bogosian’s Sex, Drugs, Rock & Roll, Robert Aldrich’s Ulzana’s Raid
Jonathan Demme’s The Silence of the Lambs, E. Elias Merhige’s Begotten, a career appreciation of Robert Altman, James Naremore on the FBI vs. Orson Welles, Jodie Foster’s Little Man Tate, Mark Robson’s My Foolish Heart, the New York Film Festival
