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Trivial Top 20: Best Actor/Director Collaborations

By Film Comment
August 22, 2013

1. Marlene Dietrich & Josef von Sternberg

2. Lillian Gish & D.W. Griffith

3. John Wayne & John Ford

4.…

Elmore Leonard interviewed by Patrick McGilligan

By Film Comment
August 21, 2013
Abridged excerpts from an interview by Patrick McGilligan, circa Jackie Brown.

Trivial Top 20: Best Directorial Debuts by Screenwriters

By Film Comment
June 28, 2013

1. Badlands Terrence Malick (1973)

2. The Maltese Falcon John Huston (1941)

3. The Great McGinty Preston Sturges (1940)

4. Story of a…

Cannes Roundtable Two

By Film Comment
May 25, 2013
Gavin Smith, Alexander Horwath, Todd McCarthy, Jonathan Romney, Marco Grosoli, and Joumane Chahine discuss the bias towards lesbian sex scenes, potential d'Or winners, and the 75 percent effort syndrome

Cannes Roundtable One

By Film Comment
May 21, 2013
Amy Taubin, Gavin Smith, Kent Jones, and Marco Grosoli gather at the halfway point of Cannes 2013 to suss out the good, the bad, and the ugly

Trivial Top 20: Oldest Directors

By Film Comment
May 2, 2013
Ranked according to the time of their last feature film release

Overheard: Steven Soderbergh

By Film Comment
April 30, 2013
Steven Soderbergh's SFIFF56 State of Cinema Address, now available for your listening or reading pleasure

Trailer: Paradise: Hope

By Film Comment
April 25, 2013
Take another little piece of my heart: the translated trailer for the final installment of Ulrich Seidl's Paradise Trilogy

Trivial Top 20 (expanded to 40): The Best Very, Very Long Films

By Film Comment
April 17, 2013

1. The Mother and the Whore Jean Eustache (217 minutes)

2. Sátántangó Béla Tarr (450)

3. Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles Chantal Akerman (201)…

Trivial Top 20 (Expanded to 50): Best One-Word-Title Films (Pre-1960)

By Film Comment
April 1, 2013

1. Vertigo Alfred Hitchcock, 1958

2. Ordet Carl Theodor Dreyer, 1955

3. Pickpocket Robert Bresson, 1959

4. M Fritz Lang,…

Trailer: Michel Gondry’s Mood Indigo

By Film Comment
March 15, 2013
A marriage made in heaven: Michel Gondry's adaptation of Boris Vian's L'Écume des Jours

2012 Readers’ Poll: Your Comments

By Film Comment
March 12, 2013
What was important/funny/infuriating/sad about the films of 2012? Find out!

Trivial Top 20: Longest Movie Titles

By Film Comment
March 11, 2013
No abbrevs allowed

2012 Readers’ Poll Results

By Film Comment
March 9, 2013
The Last Word

Last Ten Films: Park Chan-wook

By Film Comment
February 21, 2013
In anticipation of his new film Stoker, the director of Oldboy goes public with his viewing log

Participate in Film Comment’s 2012 Readers’ Poll

By Film Comment
January 29, 2013
Are you thoughtless in your remarks?

Terra Incognita 2012

By Film Comment
January 10, 2013
Unknown Pleasures from Around the World

50 Best Films of 2012

By Film Comment
December 13, 2012
The critics speak! The expanded results of our annual poll

50 Best Undistributed Films of 2012

By Film Comment
December 13, 2012
The best movies you probably haven't seen this year

Miguel Gomes’s Last Ten Films

By Film Comment
December 3, 2012
The director of Tabu, which opens later this month, reveals his filmic consumption