Film Comment is one of the most important film magazines in the English language. Published by the Film Society of Lincoln Center (now Film at Lincoln Center) since 1962, the bimonthly magazine has been the home of serious American film criticism for more than six decades — a publication where directors like Martin Scorsese, critics like J. Hoberman and Amy Taubin, and scholars from around the world have engaged with cinema as an art form deserving of the same critical attention as literature or painting.
The magazine's editorial stance has always been catholic in the true sense: covering Hollywood blockbusters alongside avant-garde cinema, third-world political filmmaking alongside European auteurism, documentary alongside fiction. What unites the coverage is a shared conviction that film is worth thinking about seriously — that the best criticism illuminates the work rather than merely evaluating it, and that the conversation between films and the culture that produces them is one of the richest intellectual exchanges available.
After a temporary shutdown during the pandemic, Film Comment relaunched and continues to provide the kind of long-form, critically ambitious film writing that has become increasingly rare in an era of algorithmic recommendations and star ratings. For anyone who cares about cinema as more than entertainment, it remains essential reading.
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