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If Satyajit Ray was the suitable boy of Indian art cinema—unthreatening, career-oriented, reliably tasteful—Ritwik Ghatak, his contemporary and principal rival, was its problem child. Where Ray’s ...

ROGER CORMAN: I started originally as a mes­senger at Fox. I came out of Stanford as an engi­neer, worked four days and quit. The only way I could get into the business was a messenger. I worked ...

The story of Third World Cinema Corporation—a fledging production house founded by Black and Latino artists in 1971—is at once inspirational and heartbreaking. An earnest “for us, by us” effort to ...

Michael Koresky is the senior curator of film at the Museum of the Moving Image, and a member of the National Society of Film Critics. He frequently writes for the Criterion Collection, and hosts and ...

The results are in for our 2025 poll of Film Comment’s contributors and colleagues! On this page you’ll find a selection of the individual ballots submitted by our voters for the Best Films of 2025 ...

The results are now in for our 2025 poll of Film Comment’s contributors! On this page, you’ll find our list of the 20 best films that were released either theatrically or virtually in 2025 in the ...

Monteiro died February 8, 2003, at the age of 64. It came as a shock because his career had only started to take off relatively recently, first with his sort-of breakthrough, Recollections of the ...

There’s something strangely sedating about being at the Venice Film Festival. The annual Mostra Internazionale d’Arte Cinematografica takes place not in Venice proper, but on a tiny island called Lido ...

The lay of the land, in the Seventies film, is that there are two types of structure being practiced: dispersal and shallow-boxed space. RAMEAU’S NEPHEW, McCABE AND MRS. MILLER, CELINE AND JULIE GO ...

Oliver Laxe’s fourth feature, Sirât, is the French-born Galician director’s first film to premiere in Competition at Cannes, where it’s been a highlight of the 2025 festival’s first week. A singular ...