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The avant-garde (from French, "advance guard" or "vanguard", literally "fore-guard") are people or works that are experimental, radical, or unorthodox, with respect to art, culture, and society.

It may be characterized by nontraditional, aesthetic innovation and initial unacceptability, and it may offer a critique of the relationship between producer and consumer.

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.

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.

The magazine's editorial team also hosts the annual Film Comment Selects at the Film Society of Lincoln Center.

An art film is typically a serious, independent film aimed at a niche market rather than a mass market audience.

An art film is "intended to be a serious artistic work, often experimental and not designed for mass appeal"; they are "made primarily for aesthetic reasons rather than commercial profit", and they contain "unconventional or highly symbolic content".

A feature film is a film (also called a movie, motion picture or just film) with a running time long enough to be considered the principal or sole film to fill a program.

The notion of how long this should be has varied according to time and place.

According to the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, the American Film Institute, and the British Film Institute, a feature film runs for 40 minutes or longer, while the Screen Actors Guild states that it is 80 minutes or longer.

Film criticism is the analysis and evaluation of films and the film medium.

In general, film criticism can be divided into two categories: journalistic criticism found regularly in newspapers, magazines and other popular mass-media outlets; and academic criticism by film scholars who are informed by film theory and are published in academic journals.