While this season of taking stock finds us tinkering on our lists of the best films of the year - best of the decade, even - along comes a book that throws all our efforts into humbling perspective
"The possibility of a digital, on-demand afterlife guarantees at least a theoretically universal long-tail immortality to blockbusters and curiosities alike. But this state of database nonoblivion
"The Italian political landscape frequently makes our own look flat as a Kansas cornfield. Unsurprisingly, then, that the 13th edition of San Francisco Film Society's New Italian Cinema festival finds
François Truffaut: A Winter Portrait, running Tuesdays through December 22 at the French Institute Alliance Française in New York, showcases the less-heralded work of the 1970s. "The 'efficiency' of
As I write, the city I live in, Berlin, is throwing a party for itself. As it should. Few events in the lifetimes of most of us deserve to be celebrated as heartily as the fall of the Wall. And while
Selections from the November/December 2009 issue of Film Comment have been posted along with a few online exclusives, among them, the full uncut version of Alexander Horwath's interview with Michael
It's a pretty interesting week for theatrical releases, and we'll get to those in a moment, but it's an outstanding week for Robert Ryan fans. The Chicago Reader presents a recently discovered letter
Once again, by necessity, a roundup of events in New York. "By pure serendipity, two magnificent movies about ballet - one fiction, one fact; one a restored classic, one a brand-new work making its
I haven't made a habit here of rounding up commentary on new DVD releases, but this is one exceptional week. "The grand theme of Wings of Desire, Wim Wenders's cultishly adored fantasy of overcoat
Here in Germany, where The White Ribbon has been in theaters for a couple of weeks now, Michael Haneke was on television last night. There's a strict format to Alexander Kluge's News & Stories
"Like most issues of Bright Lights, this one doesn't have a particular theme, though we wish you readers would start referring to our approach as 'serendipity' (perhaps 'charming serendipity'?) rather
We're going to get this year's New York Film Festival wrapped before Christmas. That's a promise. Today, on the occasion of Glenn Kenny's interview with Catherine Breillat: Bluebeard, which Glenn