Celebrating its 10th anniversary, this annual showcase of discoveries, special previews, rediscoveries, and films without distribution is handpicked by the editors of Film Comment, America’s leading magazine of film criticism. Drawn from their travels on the international film festival circuit, this year’s eclectic and cutting-edge mix has something for everyone: art-film rarities, down-and-dirty genre movies, choice revivals from Europe, Asia, and the U.S., not to mention new and classic works from Edward Yang, Raúl Ruiz, Kiyoshi Kurosawa, Patrice Chéreau, and Jean-Luc Godard, plus the mind-blowing cinema of Philippe Grandrieux. See it all here first!
Straight from Film Comment’s pages to the Walter Reade’s screen, the editors and writers of America’s leading film magazine bring you Film Comment Selects - a line-up of previews, discoveries, films without distribution, underrated classics and special showcases. With special presentations throughout the year and a two-week series each February, Film Comment Selects is your chance to see movies that may never get released in the U.S., discover up-and-coming directors, and sample from an eclectic menu where Hong Kong action and French horror rub shoulders with some of the most challenging and complex visions in contemporary cinema.
"It may not be the explicit intention of Film Comment Selects... but the program’s chief virtue is that it makes a smart, serious effort in that direction... it has an eclectic, idiosyncratic spirit reflecting the magazine that is its guiding intelligence... Film Comment, a forum for contention and debate, is dedicated to the proposition that movies are worth arguing about. And that is certainly true of the films selected this year." ~ A. O. Scott, The New York Times
“...New York cineastes must realize that nothing can be taken for granted. Don't fail, then, to commemorate the 10th birthday of Film Comment Selects… it's a precious rarity...” ~ Nick Pinkerton, The Village Voice.
Film Comment Selects is sponsored by Vice Magazine and Vice Films, Stella Artois® and 42BELOW with major support from the National Endowment for the Arts.
