The 20 Best Film Comment Covers

Highlights: Le Joli Mai Luchino Visconti Michael Cacoyannis Austin Lamont on the 9th Flaherty Seminar Twice a Man Purchase a digital or print copy

1. Fall 1963

Highlights: Rocky IV Martin Ritt, Paul Mazursky, Krzysztof Zanussi & John Bright interviews theater adaptations by Armond White Terrence Rafferty on Another World Orson Welles obit Red Time Purchase a digital or print copy

2. January/February 1986

Highlights: Face to Face F.W. Murnau Manny Farber & Patricia Patterson on Taxi Driver Family Plot Autobiographical sketch by Chuck Jones James M. Cain interview Purchase a digital or print copy

3. May/June 1976

Highlights: Ken Russell’s Mahler Rainer Werner Fassbinder by Manny Farber & Patricia Patterson Fassbinder & Marguerite Duras interviews Douglas Sirk Purchase a digital or print copy

4. November/December 1975

Highlights: Carrie Robert Altman, Robert Benton & Alan Rudolph Dino De Laurentiis, Samuel Fuller & Elia Kazan interviews Censorship & In the Realm of the Senses Rocky Shadow of a Doubt Purchase a digital or print copy

5. January/February 1977

Highlights: The Mother and the Whore King Vidor (Pt. II) Leo McCarey Advice to critics by Otis Ferguson “Good Dumb Films & Bad Smart Films” Purchase a digital or print copy

6. September/October 1973

Highlights: Reds Reds and Ragtime Jon Jost Jean Eustache Peter Greenaway Special section on art directors including Alexandre Trauner, Ken Adam, Richard Sylbert & Jack Fisk interviews Purchase a digital or print copy

7. January/February 1982

Highlights: Mulholland Drive Waking Life Béla Tarr Kiyoshi Kurosawa Va Savoir Donnie Darko 50 years of Cahiers du cinéma The Lady and the Duke Chris Norris on Rock Star Michael Koresky reviews Cassavetes on Cassavetes DeMane Davis and Khari Streeter’s Lift Purchase a digital or print copy

8. September/October 2001

Highlights: Raging Bull “Why Sports Movies Don’t Work” by Andrew Sarris Hollywood glamour portraits 3-D film Akira Kurosawa and Richard Rush interviews Making It — James Toback, Claudia Weill, & Michael Mann Purchase a digital or print copy

9. November/December 1980

Highlights: Film noir family tree Fritz Lang Raymond Chandler Alexander Kluge interview Max Ophuls John Calley Purchase a digital or print copy

10. November/December 1974

Highlights: Anselm Duarte’s The Given Word USIA Film Program Director George Stevens Jr. & Ron Rice interviews L’Imitation du Cinéma by Gregory Markopoulos Mr. Arkadin by Peter Bogdanovich Purchase a digital or print copy

11. 1962: Vol. 1, Number 3

Highlights: Taxi Driver First annual Grosses Gloss Paul Schrader interview Salò & Pier Paolo Pasolini’s final days Barry Lyndon Lina Wertmüller Purchase a digital or print copy

12. March/April 1976

Highlights: Hollywood Cameramen issue Elia Kazan interview Jacques Tourneur Penelope Gilliatt Purchase a digital or print copy

13. Summer 1972

Highlights: Gremlins Dante interview Hitchcock Stop Making Sense Paris, Texas diary Comers Midsection: The USC connection Ron Howard interview Eighties Comedy including John Hughes Footloose Purchase a digital or print copy

14. May/June 1984

Highlights: The Shining Bad movies by J. Hoberman New German Cinema Ronald Reagan Michael Caine interview Adapting best-selling novels Redneck movies including Ebert on Beyond the Valley of the Dolls & Russ Meyer interview Purchase a digital or print copy

15. July/August 1980

Highlights: The Road Warrior Blade Runner Ridley Scott & George Miller interviews Seventies comedy Richard Pryor Tron & The Secret of NIMH Rocky IIIMichael Sragow reviews On Movies by Dwight MacDonald Producers Midsection Purchase a digital or print copy

16. July/August 1982

Highlights: Russ Meyer by Roger Ebert Meyer & Radley Metzger interviews Raymond Durgnat on Vixen & Venus in Furs Brendan Gill on porn Noel Carroll on The World Viewed by Stanley Cavell Paul Arthur reviews The Brakhage Lectures Purchase a digital or print copy

17. January/February 1973

Highlights: Heaven’s Gate Isabelle Huppert, Jonathan Demme & Carlos Diegues interviews Mon Oncle d’Amérique Raymond Durgnat on The Western The Zoom Lens by John Belton and “Lyle Tector” (nom de plume of Richard T. Jameson) Pauline Kael Peter Sellers Krzysztof Zanussi Purchase a digital or print copy

18. September/October 1980

Highlights: Michael Caine Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind Joseph Losey She’s One of Us Marco Bellocchio Café Lumière Purchase a digital or print copy

19. March/April 2004

Highlights: François Truffaut & Jean Renoir Truffaut interviewed by Todd McCarthy & Joseph McBride Alan J. Pakula & Satyajit Ray interviews Tony Rayns on In the Realm of the Senses Patrick McGilligan interviews two film financiers Duelle Purchase a digital or print copy

20. September/October 1976