Divine Rapture: The Films of Werner Schroeter
By Ulrike Sieglohr
The sublime, intensely stylized “total cinema” of Werner Schroeter, the flamboyant dandy who was the New German cinema’s best-kept secret
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Discomfort Zone
By Laura Kern
The Films of Bobcat Goldthwait
With God Bless America, comedian-turned auteur Bobcat Goldthwait continues to refine the art of turning bad taste into serious fun
Review: The Color Wheel
By Dan Sullivan
(Alex Ross Perry, U.S., 2011)
Sibling rivalry, social immobility, and schadenfreude
Hot Property: Donoma
By Nicolas Rapold
Cri de Coeur
The savvy, spontaneous digressions of Djinn Carrénard
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Welcome to the New Film Comment Online
By on 5.17.2012
Forget everything you thought you knew about this website...
Foundas on Film: The Avengers and Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
By Scott Foundas on 5.4.2012
Cinema for the age of the super PAC
Interview: Indonesian director Edwin on Postcards from the Zoo
By Nicolas Rapold on 4.30.2012
A magical realist second feature from Edwin, at the Tribeca Film Festival
Together at Last: The Whitney Biennial 2012 Film & Video Program
By R. Emmet Sweeney on 4.23.2012
Film and video of all shapes and sizes converge and converse in the main exhibition this year
Cannes Market Watch: Bergman & Magnani: The War of the Volcanoes
By Robert Koehler on 5.20.2012
What went down when Roberto Rossellini made Stromboli next door to his ex-lover
Cannes Market Watch: A Monkey on My Shoulder
By Robert Koehler on 5.19.2012
Juliette Binoche and Edgar Ramirez as a lusty, ludicrous couple
Review: Lovely Molly
By Sophie Blum on 5.18.2012
Blair Witch Project co-director Eduardo Sanchez returns to the big screen with little fanfare and lazy misogyny
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The Cliché Expert’s Guide to the Cinema
By Gilbert Adair
Gilbert Adair's taxonomy of late Seventies film-crit idées reçues
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