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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 2002

Interview with Brian De Palma; features on Adaptation, Michael Moore, Fassbinder, and John Frankenheimer; coverage of the 40th New York Film Fesival and Toronto International Film Festival; special on Mexican cinema by Jose Luís Rodriguez

September-October 2002

Todd Haynes and Far from Heaven, Winona Ryder, Yasazu Masumura, Jia Zhangke, Paul Greengrass’s Bloody Sunday, Alexander Sokurov’s Russian Ark, 40th New York Film Festival, Shabana Azmi, Russ Meyer

July-August 2002

George Lucas interviewed, Serge Daney, Bruce Conner, Biggie & TupacMinority Report, Jacques Tourneur, Dirty Harry, Cannes 2002, Fernando Meirelles, Australian cinema journal, Michael Winterbottom’s 24 Hour Party People, Hou Hsiao-hsien’s Millenium Mambo

May-June 2002

John Sayles's Sunshine State, Christopher Nolan's Insomnia, Chris Marker, Bollywood midsection, Alexander Dovzhenko, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Juan Carlos Fresnadillo, Italian cinema scene, Pedro Almodóvar's Talk to Her, Tacita Dean, Takeshi Miike's Ichi the Killer

March-April 2002

Michael Haneke's The Piano Teacher, Francis Ford Coppola, The Godfather, Joris Ivens, Vanilla Sky, Sundance and Rotterdam 2002, Gregory Crewdson, Olivier Assays's guilty pleasures

January-February 2002

Moshen Makhmalbaf's Kandahar, Alexander Sokurov's Spiritual Voices, Ridley Scott's Black Hawk Down, Will Smith and Michael Mann's Ali, new Japanese cinema, Andrzej Munk, Jean-Luc Godard's In Praise of Love, Nanni Moretti, Gus Van Sant's Gerry