Film Comment Selects

Past programs

2014

• Opening Night: Me and You
• Closing Night: Our Sunhi
• Betrayal
• Blood Glacier
• Cannibal
• Cherchez Hortense
• City of Pirates
• Enemy
• Fat Shaker
• Felony
• Flesh of My Flesh
• The Hypnotist
• Intruders
• Metro Manila
• The Sacrament
• Top of the Lake
• The Weight

  Focus on Christian Petzold

• Ghosts
• Wolfsburg

  Healthcare Mayhem Double Feature

• The Carey Treatment
• "The Hospital"

  2013

• Opening Night: Simon Killer
• Closing Night: The We and the I
• "3"
• A Borrowed Life
• Call Girl
• Dormant Beauty
• Electra Glide in Blue
• "From the Life of the Marionettes"
• "Gebo and the Shadow"
• "Here Comes the Devil"
• Hearts of the West
• In the Fog
• Miss Lovely
• Motorway
• Nights with Theodore
• Penance
• Sightseers
• Slither
• Stemple Pass
• Wish You Were Here
• White Epilepsy

  2012

• All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace
• Almayer's Folly
• "Alps"
• Altered States
• Despair
• Face to Face
• Faust
• "The Forgiveness of Blood"
• "Headhunters"
• "I Wish"
• Land Passion War of the Dead Christ Worlds
• Le Sauvage
• Life is Sweet
• Man at Sea
• Margaret
• "Mortem"
• My Crasy Life
• My Own Private River
• ""
• "Poto and Cabengo"
• "Rebellion"
• "Routine Pleasures"
• "Silent House"
• "Sleepwalk"
• "Snowtown"
• "A Stoker"
• "Target"
• "Transfer"
• "Wanderlust"
• "We Have a Pope"
• "Whore's Glory"

  2011

• Opening Night: Bas-fonds, I Wish I Knew"
• Closing Night: Burke and Hare, "Insidious"
• "Cave of Forgotten Dreams"
• City of Life and Death
• Domaine
• El Sicario, Room 164
• I Only Want You To Love Me
• Robbery
• "The Silence"
• Sodankyla Forever
• Submarino
• Charly
• Demi-Tariff
• The Karski Report, with "A Visitor from the Living"
• "Sobibor"
• Wundkanal
• The Velvet Underground in Boston''
• "The Velvet Underground and Nico"
• "Straight to Hell Returns"
• "Cold Fish"
• "I Saw the Devil"
• "Legend of the Fist: The Return of Chen Zhen"

  2010

• Opening Night: Over the Edge
• Closing Night: The Time That Remains
• Accident
• Air Doll
• Applause
• Be Good
• A Brighter Summer Day
• Les derniers jours du monde
• Godard Rarities: A choice selection of odds and ends from the extended oeuvre of Jean-Luc Godard, including material from his American escapades and TV appearances, curated with the help of Jake Perlin.
• Kinatay
• The Land of Madness
• Like You Know It All
• Morphia
• Nucingen House
• Perfect Life
• Persecution
• Survival of the Dead
• Tales from the Golden Age
• The Victors

  2009

• Opening Night: Paradise
• Closing Night: The Hurt Locker
• A l’aventure
• Adam Resurrected
• Better Things
• The Chaser
• Frontier of Dawn
• Jerichow
• Revanche
• The Tiger's Tail
• A Week Alone
• A Woman in Berlin

  Special Retrospectives

• The Killing of Sister George
• Ladies and Gentlemen, the Fabulous Stains

  Double Trouble: Joel DeMott and Jeff Kreines

• Demon Lover Diary
• Seventeen

  Guy Debord

• In girum imus nocte et consumimur igni
• The Society of the Spectacle screened with Réfutation de tous les judgements, tant élogieux qu’hostiles, qui ont été jusq’ici portés sur le film ‘La société du spectacle’
• Hurlements en faveur de Sade screened with On the Passage of a Few Persons Through a Rather Brief Unity of Time and Critique de la separation

  2008

• Opening Night: The Duchess of Langeais
• Closing Night: Alex Cox in Person: Walker and Searchers 2.0
• Special Late Night Preview: George Romero’s Diary of the Dead
• The Banishment
• Before I Forget
• Boarding Gate
• Chop Shop
• Container
• Dark Matter
• Dust
• The Edge of Heaven
• Ex Drummer
• Flash Point
• Frontière
• Import Export
• Inside
• Joy Division
• Schindler’s Houses
• Wolfsbergen
• A Wonderful World

  Spotlight on Richard Fleischer

• Mandingo
• 10 Rillington Place

  Mondo Packard

• Reflections of Evil
• Damon Packard’s Greatest Hits: trailers for Apple, Untitled Star Wars Mockumentary, Reflections of Evil, The Early 70’s Horror Trailer ; Rollerboogie III ; Chad’s Wedding Video; Chemtrails ; Al’s Techno Bar ; Lost in the Thinking ; Dawn of an Evil Millennium

  Other special programs

• Crispin Glover in person: Rubin and Ed
• A new look at Philippe Garrel: J’entends plus la guitare

  2007

• Opening Night: Exterminating Angels
• Closing Night: An Evening with Paul Verhoeven: Black Book
• Bardo
• Colossal Youth
• Exiled
• James Benning: Two Films: Ten Skies and 13 Lakes
• Lights in the Dusk
• Longing
• Play It as It Lays
• Retribution
• Summer ’04
• Summer Palace
• Tachigui: The Amazing Lives of the Fast Food Grifters
• These Encounters of Theirs
• Twilight's Last Gleaming
• The Wedding Director
• The Yacoubian Building

  2006

• Ce Jour-là
• Everlasting Regret
• Stranded in Canton
• Battle in Heaven
• La Domaine perdu
• Shanghai Dreams
• One Night
• Eli, Eli, Lema Sabachtani?
• Diás de Campo
• Saratan
• Workingman’s Death
• Isolation
• Kinetta
• Bashing
• Digital Short Films by Three Filmmakers: Haze ; Magician ; Worldly Desires
• The Forsaken Land
• Loft

• Focus on Elaine May

• A New Leaf
• The Heartbreak Kid
• Mikey and Nicky
• Ishtar

  2005

• Oldboy
• Clean
• At Five in the Afternoon
• Vital
• Downfall
• Izo
• Le Pont des Arts
• Turtles Can Fly
• The Ister
• Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance
• Secret File
• Ma mère
• Archival prints of Fixed Bayonet and Steel Helmet
• Los muertos
• Route 181: Fragments of a Journey in Palestine-Israel
• Memories of Murder

  Bulle Ogier Tribute

• The Salamander
• Le Pont du Nord
• Two
• Mistress
• The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie

  2004

• Greendale
• All Tomorrow’s Parties
• No Rest for the Brave
• Los Angeles Plays Itself
• The World's Greatest Sinner
• Bright Future
• Strayed
• The Story of Marie and Julien
• The Magic Gloves
• Playing “In the Company of Men”
• Ripley’s Game
• Gambling, Gods and LSD
• Shanghai Picnic
• Welcome to Destination Shanghai
• The Five Obstructions

  2003

• 11'09"01
• Happy Here and Now
• demonlover
• The Road
• Combat d’amour en songe
• Seafood
• Path to War
• Seven Days in May
• Two films by Chris Marker and Société pour le lancement des Oeuvres Nouvelles : The Battle of the Ten Million and 2084
• The Secret Lives of Dentists
• La Nouvelle vie
• Remembrance of Things to Come screened with Embassy
• Ken Park
• Blissfully Yours
• Monrak Transistor
• Brief Crossing
• Shadow Kill''
• JUON:the grudge 2 2003

• 2002

• Martha… Martha
• The Mission
• Investigating Sex
• Trouble Every Day
• The Sleepy Time Gal
• The Piano Teacher
• The Entity screened with Outer Space and Dream Work
• Forever Mine
• Merci pour le chocolat

  Focus on New Japanese Cinema

• Barren Illusion
• Not Forgotten
• Ring
• Ichi the Killer
• H-Story
• Pulse
• Harmful Insect

  March 2000

Top of the World: Film Comment Magazine Selects the Most Important Films and Filmmakers of the Nineties

• Dead Man
• Unforgiven
• JLG/JLG
• The Puppetmaster
• Schindler's List
• Pulp Fiction
• Miller's Crossing
• The Age of Innocence
• The Idiots
• Inquiétude
• The Wind Will Carry Us

  Special events

• Pink Floyd The Wall, followed by prog-rock afterparty with music by the DJs of Viva Radio—October 13, 2009
• The Last Days of Disco, followed by a late disco dance party with DJs Jeremy Campbell and Dan Selzer —August 27, 2009
• Thirst, with Park Chan-wook in person—July 20, 2009
• The Friends of Eddie Coyle —May 26, 2009
• ', followed by an after-party with music provided by Viva Radio—May 4, 2009
• A Tribute to Pierre Clémenti; the USA premiere of Les Idoles —November 25, 2008
• The Changeling —October 31, 2008
• Che! —October 28, 2008
• The Last Winter —September 17, 2007
• The Executioner's Song, followed by a Q&A with Lawrence Schiller and Rosanna Arquette—August 5, 2007
• Them —August 2, 2007
• Norman Mailer on Film: Tough Guys Don't Dance and Maidstone, with Mailer in conversation—July 22, 2007
• Preview screening of Joshua, followed by a Q&A with George Ratliff, producer Johnathan Dorfman, and cast members—July 2, 2007
• Hot Fuzz screened with Electra Glide in Blue, with Edgar Wright, Simon Pegg, and Nick Frost in person—April 10, 2007
• An Evening with Charles Grodin, with a screening of Midnight Run, followed by an onstage conversation with Charles Grodin—December 13, 2006
• Sneak Preview of The Descent, with Neil Marshall in attendance—July 24, 2006
• Pine Flat, with Sharon Lockhart in person—May 25, 2006
• An Evening with Anton Corbijn, Jonathan Glazer, Mark Romanek, and Stéphane Sednaoui, featuring all four directors in a roundtable Q&A and Michel Gondry as MC—September 13, 2005
• 2046, with Wong Kar-wai in person—June 15, 2005
• We Jam Econo: The Story of the Minutemen, followed by a Q&A with Tim Irwin and producer Keith Schieron—May 24, 2005'''