Cannes Review: In La Chimera, Alice Rohrwacher’s Genius Gets Buried By Whimsy
When asked, in 2019, to explain why her first three features begin during the night, Alice Rohrwacher recalled the long drives she would ta...
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A Woman Escapes Review: Three Directors Expand the Possibilities of Experimental Filmmaking
Since Sofia Bohdanowicz introduced Deragh Campbell's Audrey Brenac in Never Eat Alone, the eye-gravitating protagonist has always been on s...
Shin Kamen Rider Review: Bedazzled by Bugmen, Japan’s Great Pop Auteur Burrows Deeper into Fandom Pastiche
Fatally, perhaps, I went into Shin Kamen Rider as a Hideaki Anno fan first and a Kamen Rider fan… not so much. I knew about it, of course: ...
Cannes Review: The Old Oak Finds Ken Loach Bidding Farewell with a Rallying Cry
In The Old Oak, an English man and a Syrian woman become unlikely friends on one side of a simmering culture war. It's the latest from Ken ...
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Jia Zhang-ke’s Next Narrative Feature is We Shall Be All, a Project Two Decades in the Making
In the five years since Ash Is Purest White, Jia Zhang-ke has directed one documentary, Swimming Out Till The Sea Turns Blue, but we've heard many rumors of an...
Lars von Trier’s The Idiots Causes Chaos with 4K Restoration Trailer
The Idiots is something like a holy grail among Lars von Trier's corpus, long out-of-print and legendary (even among his provocations) for its comic treatment ...
First Teaser for Coup de Chance Finds Woody Allen Sans Subtitles
It's a strange thing, needing subtitles for a Woody Allen film. The writer-director-your mileage surely varies has set across the world offering nothing but hi...
Blue Jean Director Georgia Oakley on Kelly Reichardt’s Simplicity and the Everyday Erosion of LGBTQ+ Acceptance
One of the year's most accomplished directorial debuts, Georgia Oakley’s deeply felt, grounded drama Blue Jean is set in 1988 England amidst Margaret Thatcher’...
Wes Anderson’s The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar Will Feature Four Stories With Actors Playing Multiple Roles
Update: We spoke with cinematographer Robert Yeoman, who shared new details on Wes Anderson's next two features. Read here.
Next week, Wes Anderson's Astero...
Cannes Review: The Old Oak Finds Ken Loach Bidding Farewell with a Rallying Cry
In The Old Oak, an English man and a Syrian woman become unlikely friends on one side of a simmering culture war. It's the latest from Ken Loach and, if report...
Cannes Review: Terrestrial Verses Finds Bureaucratic Comedy and Tragedy in Modern Iran
Iranian filmmaking’s reliance on formal restrictions and secrecy are given new variations in Terrestrial Verses, co-directed by Ali Asgari and Alireza Khatami,...
John Carpenter Has Directed a New TV Series from His Couch and Teases The Thing Sequel
Hardly anyone expected John Carpenter to get back in the director's chair and just as many have accused him of being overambitious in recent years. Which makes...
Past Lives Director Celine Song on Choosing Your Home and the Contradictions of Time
Past Lives is a human story. The debut from playwright-turned-director Celine Song, the drama encompasses 24 years of a relationship between Nora (Greta Lee) a...
15 Films to See in June
Following a number of disappointing blockbusters in May, there are a few promising ones this month (as glimpsed in our honorable mentions below), but it feels ...