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Features

3-D or Not 3-D?

By Michael Kerbel
November 1, 1980

Kubrick’s Shining

By Richard T. Jameson
July 1, 1980
In conjunction with the release of Room 237, FILM COMMENT's vintage defense of The Shining from the July/August 1980 issue

Russ Meyer interviewed by Ed Lowry and Louis Black

By Louis Black
July 1, 1980
Rednecks and Big Knockers: What's your 10-20?

Star Drek

By Terry Curtis Fox
July 7, 1977
The Star Wars War: Against

Louis Feuillade: Master of Melodrama

By Richard Roud
November 1, 1976
With Olivier Assaya’s Irma Vep deconstructing the very idea of the serial, revisit Richard Roud’s 1976 essay on Louis Feuillade, the man behind the original Les Vampires

Film Maudit Dossier: Memories of ‘Justice’

By Film Comment
July 1, 1975
In defense of Marcel Ophuls' documentary The Memory of Justice

Dream Masters I: Walt Disney

By Jonathan Rosenbaum
January 1, 1975
The Supreme Heart-crusher contains multitudes: Hugh Hefner, Leni Riefenstahl, John and Henry Ford

Max and Dave Fleischer

By Mark Langer
January 1, 1975
The inventor Max and the inventive Dave built a cartoon industry, with a little help from Ko-Ko, Betty Boop, Popeye, and the Bouncing Ball

Independents: Documentary Films

By Amos Vogel
September 1, 1974
Amos Vogel on a turn toward immediacy and verisimilitude

Outlaws, Auteurs, and Actors

By Richard Corliss, Stephen Harvey
May 1, 1974
Keith Carradine and Shelley Duvall of "Thieves Like Us" interviewed by Stephen Harvey; text by Richard Corliss