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Listen: Joe Hisaishi’s Full Score for Hayao Miyazaki’s The Boy and the Heron

At long last, it's the week of Hayao Miyazaki in North America as GKIDS will be giving his stunning new animation The Boy and the Heron a wide release starting...

Matthew Modine Reflects on Abel Ferrara, Stanley Kubrick, Renny Harlin, Alan Rudolph, and His Feature-Directing Debut

The mark of an actor's career, I think, is what extent their filmography can reflect the time they're working. Matthew Modine is a prime case: we can point, fi...

Sean Price Williams on Rejecting Cynicism with The Sweet East and Making Nick Pinkerton Laugh

For the past decade-and-a-half, cinematographer Sean Price Williams has been a staple of the New York indie-film scene, lensing features for (naming just a han...

NYC Weekend Watch: Kijū Yoshida, Matthew Modine, Todd Haynes, Ennio Morricone & More

NYC Weekend Watch is our weekly round-up of repertory offerings. Film at Lincoln CenterThe films of Kijū Yoshida are now playing in a massive retrospective....

New to Streaming: May December, The Holdovers, What Happens Later, Beyond Utopia, and 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...

14 Films to See in December

It's the final month of the year, which means much of our attention will be turned to sharing various best-of-2023 rundowns throughout December. The month also...

The B-Side – In Conversation with The Fugitive Director Andrew Davis

Welcome to The B-Side, from The Film Stage. Here we talk about movie directors! Not the movies that made them famous or kept them famous, but the ones that the...

La Syndicaliste Review: Isabelle Huppert-Led Procedural Works as Companion Piece to Elle

I’ll admit I didn’t expect to see an overt Vertigo homage in the middle of this rather matter-of-fact Isabelle Huppert procedural. Fixating for a second on the...

Cahiers du cinéma’s Top 10 Films of 2023 Includes Trenque Lauquen, Fallen Leaves, and Anatomy of a Fall

Established in the 1950s by André Bazin, Joseph-Marie Lo Duca, and Jacques Doniol-Valcroze, France’s Cahiers du cinéma has been a bastion for international fil...

Shayda Review: Australia’s Oscar Entry is a Well-Realized Debut Touching on a Raw Nerve of Trauma

Director Noora Niasari’s debut Shayda––and Australia’s submission for Best International Feature at next year’s Oscars––is quite literally a lifetime in the ma...

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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