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Karlovy Vary 2025: Protest Songs, Sexual Politics, and Lisbon-Set Rohmerian Delights

As someone who’s always admired the look of the Czech embassy in Berlin––an array of nicotine-hued trapezoids that sits on the corner of Wilhelm Strasse––I was...

The Baltimorons Trailer: Jay Duplass Returns with Christmas Eve-Set Charmer

After a flurry of features directing with his brother Mark Duplass from 2005's The Puffy Chair to 2012's The Do-Deca-Pentathlon, Jay Duplass is now helming his...

Exclusive Trailer for Megan Griffiths’ Year of the Fox Finds a Teenager Navigating Privilege and Predation

Following her acclaimed features I'll Show You Mine, Lucky Them, Eden, and Sadie, filmmaker Megan Griffiths returned this year with the Eliza Flug-scripted Yea...

TIFF 2025 Adds Films by Benny Safdie, Gus Van Sant, Guillermo del Toro, Baz Luhrmann, Mark Jenkin & More

Celebrating its 50th edition this year, the Toronto International Film Festival will take place September 4–14. The festival has now unveiled its Galas & S...

Lee Kang-sheng Observes in U.S. Trailer for Yeo Siew Hua’s Stranger Eyes

After landing on our radar with his Golden Leopard-winning feature A Land Imagined, Singaporean director Yeo Siew Hua returned to the festival circuit last fal...

New to Streaming: Apocalypse in the Tropics, No Sleep Till, Queens of Drama & More

Each week we highlight the noteworthy titles that have recently hit streaming platforms in the United States. Check out this week’s selections below and past r...

Suspended Time Trailer: Olivier Assayas’ Personal Drama Finally Arrives Next Month

It's been such a long wait for Olivier Assayas' Suspended Time, which premiered back at the 2024 Berlinale Film Festival, that the director has already shot an...

NYC Weekend Watch: Kurosawa, Kiarostami, Koyaanisqatsi & More

NYC Weekend Watch is our weekly round-up of repertory offerings. Film ForumA number of Akira Kurosawa's most seminal films play in new 4K restorations, whil...

August on the Criterion Channel Includes Maurice Pialat, Michael Roemer, Sammo Hung & More

Intended or not, the Criterion Channel's programming of Maurice Pialat and Michael Roemer pairs two auteurs who spoke the same death-riddled language. August's...

Exclusive Trailer for Hong Sangsoo’s By the Stream Finds a Day In True Love

While effectively every Hong Sangsoo film nabs nice responses from those who seek it out, By the Stream has carried a tad more weight––the sense that, after a ...

News

Japan Cuts Announces 2026 Slate Featuring Hirokazu Kore-eda, Gakuryu Ishii, Yoji Yamada & More

Alice Rohrwacher to Direct The Baron in the Trees; Next Film to Be Primarily Silent

Cristian Mungiu’s Fjord Wins Palme d’Or: See Full List of Cannes 2026 Winners

Trailers

Marcello Mastroianni Yearns In Trailer for 4K Restoration of Luchino Visconti’s White Nights

Exclusive Trailer for Greg Vrotsos’ Feature Debut Situations Follows a Journey of Love and Ambition in Los Angeles

Reviews

Cemre Paksoy’s Hands Are Tied In Trailer for Georgia Bernstein’s Sinister Sundance Favorite Night Nurse

Tribeca Review: Here I’m Alive Is a Raw, Intimate Look at Messy New York Lives

I Am Frankelda Review: Mexico’s First Stop-Motion Feature Speaks Truth to Power

Features

The Film Stage’s 2026 Tribeca Festival Portrait Gallery

NYC Weekend Watch: Italian History, Universal Westerns, Black Cops & More

Posterized June 2026: Maddie’s Secret, The Furious, Drunken Noodles & More

Interviews

“The Hard Work Is In the Screenwriting”: John Sayles on Resourceful Filmmaking, James Cameron, and His TIFF Retrospective

The Currents Director Milagros Mumenthaler on Sensory Filmmaking, Motherhood, and Capturing an Internal State

“Making Movies Should Be a Pleasure”: Olivier Assayas on The Wizard of the Kremlin

Podcasts

The B-Sides of Goldie Hawn with Jen Johans

The B-Sides of Laurence Fishburne with Mitchell Beaupre

The B-Sides of Eddie Murphy with Nicholas Gray and Alvin Keith

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