Also check out our list of the Best Undistributed Films of 2024, our voters’ Individual Ballots, and our Best of 2024 ...

The results are in for our 2024 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 2024 ...

Our Best Undistributed Films list, voted on by Film Comment contributors worldwide, recognizes the new films that were viewed—at festivals, or elsewhere—in 2024 but did not have U.S. distribution at ...

“Two boys carrying a big subwoofer through a megalopolis.” For Japanese filmmaker Neo Sora, that was the foundational image for his new feature, Happyend, a standout at this year’s New York Film ...

My first-ever piece for Film Comment was a report from the South by Southwest Film Festival in 2010, the year that Lena Dunham’s Tiny Furniture premiered there. What stood out to me then was the ...

My neighbor in Carroll Gardens, Brooklyn installs an elaborate Halloween display every October, with severed heads, killer clowns, vampire bats, and even a freshly dug grave. The centerpiece of these ...

An example: a brilliant Brazilian director and friend, João Jardim, made a beautiful documentary in 2001 called Window of the Soul that he brought to me for the mix. The first scene is a close-up of a ...

As told to Manu Yáñez Murillo. This is an extended version of an article that appears the May-June issue of Film Comment. I first knew about Raúl Ruiz through my father, Luis Alarcón, who was a ...

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