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The Monk and the Gun Trailer: Pawo Choyning Dorji Returns with Bhutan’s Oscar Entry

Returning after his Oscar-nominated directorial debut Lunana: A Yak in the Classroom, Pawo Choyning Dorji's IFSN Advocate Award-shortlisted The Monk and the Gu...

Anselm Review: Wim Wenders Returns to 3D in Contemplative, Spare Portrait of an Artist

A meditation on the work of German painter and sculptor Anselm Kiefer, Wim Wenders' concise, spare 3D documentary Anselm allows us to spend time in the presenc...

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...

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...

News

Exclusive: Paul Schrader’s Next Films Involve a Pederast Professor and a Wall Street-Set Erotic Thriller

2024 Gotham Awards Nominations Unveiled

Yokohama BJ Blues Makes U.S. Theatrical Premiere on November 11 from Amnesiascope

Trailers

First Trailer for Luca Guadagnino’s Queer Follows Daniel Craig Searching for a High

Ride a Dreamlike Musical Carousel in Exclusive Trailer for Signe Birkova’s Lotus, Partly Shot on a 1920s Camera

Raoul Peck Investigates a Photographer Pioneer in First Trailer for Ernest Cole: Lost and Found

Reviews

AFI Fest Review: Robert Zemeckis’ Here Plays Like the Anti-Boyhood

AFI Fest Review: My Favourite Cake Finds an Autumnal Romance Blooming Under Iranian Authoritarianism

NYFF Review: On Becoming a Guinea Fowl is a Powerfully Enraging, Surreally Comedic Look at Zambian Tradition

Features

Tony Leung, Johnnie To, and Chiara Mastroianni Talk Cinema’s Future as the 2024 Tokyo International Film Festival Begins

New to Streaming: Trap, One False Move, Rap World, Daaaaaalí!, The Remarkable Life of Ibelin & More

NYC Weekend Watch: Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors, Candy Mountain, Chantal Akerman, Azazel Jacobs & More

Interviews

Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat Director Johan Grimonprez on a Jazz-Fueled, Kaleidoscopic Vision of Displaced Blackness

The Making of the Indian Sci-Fi Box-Office Sensation Kalki 2898 AD

“100 Clichés Move Us”: Rumours Directors Guy Maddin, Evan Johnson & Galen Johnson on Finding Humor in a World in Crisis

Podcasts

The B-Side – Vincent Price (with Gavin Mevius)

The B-Side – Tim Burton (with Maria Lewis)

The Film Stage Show Farewell Episode – Megalopolis

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