Johan Grimonprez's Soundtrack to a Coup D'Etat is a grim, exciting history lesson that announces itself with percussive ...

Here at Film Comment, we live by Serge Daney’s motto: “Cinephilia is not only a particular relationship to cinema, it is a relationship to the world through cinema.” We love moving images because they ...

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One imagines James Baldwin would have had none of that. In his most sustained commentary on cinema, the 1976 book-length essay The Devil Finds Work, he gives voice to the suspicion and anger that many ...

The moody music and remote setting signal horrors on the horizon, though they turn out to be less spectacular in form than one might expect. In the car, a close-up observes Jeff’s hand nervously ...

“We play with the surface of things,” the Italian poet and novelist Cesare Pavese writes in Dialogues with Leucò (1947), one of the last works he published before his death by suicide in 1950. “We ...

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