Film Comment

Film Comment

Cover of the May/June 2010 edition, celebrating the 50th year anniversary of Jean-Luc Godard's Breathless (1960)
Editor Nicolas Rapold
Categories Film
Frequency Bimonthly
Publisher Film Society of Lincoln Center
First issue 1962
Country United States
Based in New York City
Website www.filmcomment.com
ISSN 0015-119X

Film Comment is an arts and culture magazine now published by the Film Society of Lincoln Center, of which it is the official publication. Film Comment features reviews and analysis of mainstream, art-house, and avant-garde filmmaking from around the world.[1] Founded in 1962 and originally released as a quarterly, Film Comment began publishing on a bi-monthly basis with the Nov/Dec issue of 1972. In 2007, the magazine was awarded the Utne Independent Press Award for Best Arts Coverage.[2] The magazine's editorial team also hosts the annual Film Comment Selects at the Film Society of Lincoln Center.

History

Origins

Film Comment was founded during the boom years of the international art-house circuit and the so-called New American Cinema, an umbrella term for the era's independently produced documentaries and narrative features as well experimental and underground works.[3] By way of a mission statement, founder publisher Joseph Blanco wrote in the inaugural issue: "With the increasing interest in the motion picture as an art form, and with the rise of the New American cinema, [Film Comment] takes its place as a publication for the independent film maker and those who share a sincere interest in the unlimited scope of the motion picture."[4]

Gordon Hitchens editorship, 1962–1970

Richard Corliss, 1970–1982

Harlan Jacobson editorship, 1982–1990

Richard Jameson, 1990–2000

Gavin Smith, 2000–present

Notable contributors

Critics

Others

References

  1. A. O. Scott (February 20, 2009). "Recovering Treasures From Below the Radar". The New York Times.
  2. Winners of the 2007 Utne Independent Press Awards
  3. The New American Cinema should not to be confused with the New Hollywood era, though it did precede and strongly the influence that movement. For an insightful gloss on the New American Cinema, see "American Independent Narrative Cinema of the 1960s" in Bright Lights Film Journal.
  4. Joseph Blanco in Vision: A Journal of Film Comment (1:1, Spring 1962): page 2.
  5. A. O. Scott (February 12, 2004). "Critics notebook". The New York Times.

External links

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