Frank Falisi

Frederick Elmes on John Cassavetes’ Infectious Confidence, Imitating Sven Nykvist, and Ang Lee’s Hulk

Before we can even get on the record, before that most familiar robot warning of “This meeting is being recorded," Frederick Elmes is swapping stories about Al...

Ken Loach on The Old Oak, Why Every Film is a Documentary, and Artistic Solidarity

An expectation of finality has followed Ken Loach’s The Old Oak since its premiere at the 2023 Cannes Film Festival. “When you’re doing it, you’re doing it, yo...

Deborah Stratman on Capturing 4.5 Million Years of Planetary History in Last Things

“One molecule could say yes to another molecule and life was born" –– talking with Deborah Stratman about Last Things (2023) Deborah Stratman on Robi...

New Trailer for 4K Restoration of David Schickele’s Widely Unseen Bushman

What’s the border between ‘unseen’ and ‘underseen’? As a canister of images and a time capsule of the eyes that saw them get into the can, David Schickele’s Bu...

New Updates on Next Films by Wes Anderson, Jonathan Glazer, Ira Sachs, Jordan Peele, S. Craig Zahler, Danny Boyle & More

On the heels of a certain Paper of Record’s basically inscrutable insistence that January is actually a good month, it is perhaps tempting to double-down on de...

Desire and Expectations in Edward Yang’s A Confucian Confusion and Mahjong

What splits the fine line between desire and expectations? Is it a thing you can see? Is it a thing you can film? Film at Lincoln Center's new retrospective...

Jean-Luc Godard: Reckoning with the Cinematic Corpus of a Medium-Defining Artist

With a title that invokes both the specific (cinema of Godard) and the universal (cinema is Godard), Cyril Leuthy’s Godard Cinema finds itself in conversation ...

Tilda Swinton Confirms Future Projects with Pedro Almodóvar and Apichatpong Weerasethakul

No working actor better articulates acting an act of authorship than Tilda Swinton. Beyond her work with Lynne Ramsay, Wes Anderson, and a constellation of dis...

Benny Safdie Sets Solo Directing Effort with The Smashing Machine Starring Dwayne Johnson

Who was it who said ‘never tell me the odds’? And was it uttered in some distant galaxy’s asteroid hail, or just the butt of a colonoscopy joke? The great gamb...

Darren Aronofsky to Direct Elon Musk Biopic for A24

In my time working at a bookstore in Princeton, NJ, I weathered three Walter Isaacson releases: “Do we have more Musk downstairs?” These glossy bricks appeared...

News

Quentin Tarantino Cancels The Movie Critic

The Criterion Channel’s May Lineup Includes Michael Roemer, Obayashi, Sara Driver & More

Martin Scorsese Hopes to Resurrect Sinatra Biopic with Leonardo DiCaprio and Jennifer Lawrence; Steven Spielberg Plots UFO Film

Trailers

Exclusive Trailer Debut for Ann Hui’s July Rhapsody Restores a Hong Kong Classic

Sean Penn Takes Dakota Johnson for a Ride in First Trailer for Daddio

Solo Trailer: Théodore Pellerin Takes the Stage in Sophie Dupuis’s TIFF Winner

Reviews

Challengers Review: Non-Stop Lurid Entertainment Rides the Charisma of Its Stars

Omen Review: An Assured Debut That Never Falters in Ambition or Surprise

The People’s Joker Review: Superhero-Skewering Satire is Miraculous in Multiple Ways

Features

NYC Weekend Watch: Amnesiascope, Alain Delon, James Dean & More

New to Streaming: Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy, Coup de Chance, Goodbye, Dragon Inn, Suzume, Ennio & More

The Best Movies Now Playing in Theaters

Interviews

Frederick Elmes on John Cassavetes’ Infectious Confidence, Imitating Sven Nykvist, and Ang Lee’s Hulk

Becoming the Beast: George MacKay on Fighting for Bertrand Bonello’s Film, Learning French, and Modern Incel Culture

“I’m Not an Actor”: Léa Seydoux on Her Creative Self and False Public Perception

Podcasts

The Film Stage Show Ep. 534 – Monkey Man (with Jenny Nulf)

The B-Side – In Conversation with Larry Fessenden

The Film Stage Show Ep. 533 – Love Lies Bleeding (with Lily Marotta)

Frank Falisi

Frederick Elmes on John Cassavetes’ Infectious Confidence, Imitating Sven Nykvist, and Ang Lee’s Hulk

Ken Loach on The Old Oak, Why Every Film is a Documentary, and Artistic Solidarity

Deborah Stratman on Capturing 4.5 Million Years of Planetary History in Last Things

New Trailer for 4K Restoration of David Schickele’s Widely Unseen Bushman

New Updates on Next Films by Wes Anderson, Jonathan Glazer, Ira Sachs, Jordan Peele, S. Craig Zahler, Danny Boyle & More

Desire and Expectations in Edward Yang’s A Confucian Confusion and Mahjong

Jean-Luc Godard: Reckoning with the Cinematic Corpus of a Medium-Defining Artist

Tilda Swinton Confirms Future Projects with Pedro Almodóvar and Apichatpong Weerasethakul

Benny Safdie Sets Solo Directing Effort with The Smashing Machine Starring Dwayne Johnson

Darren Aronofsky to Direct Elon Musk Biopic for A24

Frank Falisi