Beyond the frame: films by Anocha Suwichakornpong, Ross McElwee, and Bani Khoshnoudi open lines of flight into the shared social and historical world to which they—and we—belong ...

Gone fishing: the documentarian talks about his first feature in over a decade, an emotionally devastating and intricately ...

This list is actively updated. Showing art-house, indie, and/or repertory films, ordered by state and then city. Where applicable, parent film organizations are also listed, and * denotes nonprofit. Did ...

Two temptations present themselves to any modern reappraisal of Erich von Stroheim’s work; one of them is fatal, the other all but impossible to act upon. The fatal temptation would be to concentrate ...

If Level Five, originally released in 1996, could be reduced to essentials, the pungent, bracing ingredients of its perfect Crème de la Chris Marker recipe would include: virtual realities and the ...

The blindingly blonde fifties no-good-girl Beverly Michaels may have started young (she was a child model at age 9), but to watch her in her greatest films—post-noir low-rent masterworks like Hugo ...

“I don’t know if you’re a detective or a pervert,” remarks Sandy (Laura Derm) to Jeffrey (Kyle MacLachlan) at a crucial juncture in the harrowing new David Lynch picture, Blue Velvet. We never are ...

After the film’s screening at Cannes, Film Comment’s Wang Muyan sat down with Yinan to discuss the meaning and appeal of crime stories, the director’s early exposure to cinema, the theme of illusory ...

As ranked by our contributors, a list of the greatest films never made. The criteria for this survey is that the projects were all at one time planned or attempted by one or many directors. This is ...

Chris Rock finds his crackling identity as a moviemaker in his third film, Top Five, the way he found his incendiary personality as a standup in his 1996 HBO special, Feel the Pain. Whippet thin and ...

Adapted by Dee Rees from her award-winning 2007 short, Pariah is one of a handful of contemporary coming-of-age features that depict the transformative experiences of adolescent African-American women ...

There’s a moment in Still Alice when Julianne Moore, looking at herself in the mirror, slathers her face with cream. Piles it on, not to cleanse or beautify, but to erase. To us it still looks ...