Brooke Adams on the Enduring Beauty of Days of Heaven and Terrence Malick’s Method
Among the most enduring films––not only from the furtive creative period of the 1970s, but all of cinema history––Terrence Malick's second feature Days of Heav...
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U.S. Trailer for Chile’s Oscar Submission The Settlers Shows Beauty and Brutality on the Western Front
Felipe Gálvez's The Settlers has carved a strong path: the western nabbed a MUBI acquisition on the heels of its Cannes premiere, earned Un Certain Regard's FI...
Inside the Yellow Cocoon Shell Trailer: Phạm Thiên Ân’s Cannes Winner Arrives in January
One of the most shocking debut features I saw this year––in the sense that it was more accomplished than most other films of 2023––was that of Phạm Thiên Ân, w...
John Waters’ Top 10 Films of 2023 Includes Beau Is Afraid, Master Gardener, and Oppenheimer
One of our favorite traditions in best-of-the-year festivities is a lineup that tends to find a more interesting path than any guilds or critics groups. The wo...
Killers of the Flower Moon Sweeps the National Board of Review 2023 Winners
The National Board of Review has unveiled its 2023 award winners, led by Martin Scorsese's Killers of the Flower Moon, which picked up Best Film, Best Director...
Sundance Film Festival Unveils 2024 Lineup
Providing our first glimpse at the next year in cinema, the 2024 Sundance Film Festival has unveiled its lineup of 82 films, eight episodic titles, and New Fro...
Anatomy of a Career: Sandra Hüller on Collaborating with Justine Triet and Jonathan Glazer
With her starring turns in two of the year’s most audacious films, Sandra Hüller has cemented her place as Europe’s leading––and perhaps most fearless––actress...
The Best Cinematography of 2023
"A cinematographer is a visual psychiatrist–moving an audience through a movie making them think the way you want them to think, painting pictures in the dark...
Thessaloniki Review: The Animal Kingdom is an Uneven Beast of a Sci-Tale
In The Animal Kingdom, an Un Certain Regard-selected science-fiction romp from France, human-animal mutations are the new norm. Director Thomas Cailley begins ...
The Film Stage Show Ep. 522 – May December (with Kyle Turner)
Welcome to a new episode of The Film Stage Show! On a new episode, Brian Roan and Robyn Bahr are joined by special guest Kyle Turner to discuss Todd Haynes' Ma...