Catching Fire: The Story of Anita Pallenberg Review: Scarlett Johansson Gives Voice to Redemption Story
You can’t always get what you want, unless you are a Rolling Stones fan hungering for documentary deep-dives into the band’s storied histor...
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The Contestant Review: A Breezy Look at a Baffling Reality Show Challenge
The tagline of Clair Titley’s The Contestant is “The naked truth about the world’s first reality star.” The show referred to is Susunu! Den...
VdR Review: Ruth Beckermann’s Favoriten Captures Laughs and Levity of an Austrian Primary School
It can be a fine line between goodbye and good riddance. Carlo Chatrian might have breathed a sigh of relief when his tenure as Berlinale's...
Nowhere Special Review: Uberto Pasolini Crafts an Understated, Joyful Tearjerker
There's not a lot of time left, but the adoption agency working with John (James Norton) is doing their best to maintain his belief that th...
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Léa Seydoux, Vincent Lindon, and Louis Garrel Hit Their Marks In Trailer for Quentin Dupieux’s Cannes Opener The Second Act
Cannes begins, against all reason, two weeks from today, and with it comes the trailer for this year's opening-night selection. (Arriving in French theaters th...
Ryûsuke Hamaguchi on Evil Does Not Exist, Being in Harmony with Nature, and Why the Ending is Realistic
On a bright summer day in a tent on top of the sultry clay courts that give the Tennis Club Venezia its name, writer-director Ryûsuke Hamaguchi––known for his ...
Christian Petzold Sets Next Feature Miroirs No. 3 Starring Paula Beer
On a streak like few other directors working today, Christian Petzold's mesmerizing, humorous Rohmer-esque drama Afire was the finest film of last year. The Ge...
17 Films to See in May
A month so staggering in quality new releases that a new Mad Max film from George Miller barely cracked the top five, May kicks off the summer movie season wit...
First Look at Francis Ford Coppola’s Megalopolis: Adam Driver and Nathalie Emmanuel Have Grand Ambitions
Now that Francis Ford Coppola has unveiled his long-in-the-works epic Megalopolis to buyers and the industry, we're just a few weeks away from its official pre...
The Beatles’ Swan Song Breathes New Life In Trailer for Let It Be Restoration
It's been four years since Disney and Peter Jackson announced intent to restore Michael Lindsay-Hogg's Let It Be––long enough (and with enough baggage) to thin...
“All Great DPs Become Alcoholics”: Rob Tregenza on Shooting Béla Tarr’s Werckmeister Harmonies
I was very gratified by the response to last year's interview with Rob Tregenza, a Zelig-like figure of modern cinema. Our very long, multi-Zoom conversation c...
VdR Review: Ruth Beckermann’s Favoriten Captures Laughs and Levity of an Austrian Primary School
It can be a fine line between goodbye and good riddance. Carlo Chatrian might have breathed a sigh of relief when his tenure as Berlinale's creative director c...
Exclusive Trailer Debut for Hiroshi Shimizu Retrospective, Starting May 4, Sheds Light on a Japanese Master
However hard it is to expand the canon, legwork must always be done. In my own time I've seen the understanding of mid-century Japanese cinema expand, however ...
Listen to Thom Yorke’s Score for Confidenza, His First Since Suspiria
It's only fitting that on the day the score drops for Challengers, composed by Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross, Thom Yorke's first score since Luca Guadagnino's ...