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The Road to a Masterpiece: The Radical Cinema of Kijū Yoshida

There was a time when Japanese filmmaker Kijū Yoshida was a cinephile’s mark of exquisite taste. While not entirely obscure, his work has been less-discussed t...

Isabelle Huppert on How Every Performance Is Like Acting for the First Time

Isabelle Huppert is one of cinema's most fearless and compelling performers: she can be both powerfully raw and impenetrably composed at once. It is even more ...

Godzilla Minus One Review: A Sentimental, Scale-Shifting Kaiju Blockbuster

For much of Takashi Yamazaki's Godzilla Minus One, Toho Studios' 33rd film in the beloved kaiju franchise, the iconic monster exists as an abstraction. After a...

Elizabeth Olsen to Lead Todd Solondz’s Love Child, Shooting This Spring

Update: Charles Melton has joined the project, Screen Daily reports. Since 2016’s Wiener-Dog, Todd Solondz has been attempting to get his next feature Love ...

First Trailer for Bertrand Bonello’s The Beast Puts Léa Seydoux and George MacKay In a Centuries-Spanning Sci-Fi Tragedy

It's less a question if Bertrand Bonello's The Beast is a major mark on 2023 and more an issue of whether or not I'll ever, even at a microscopic level, manage...

Silent Night Review: John Woo Returns to Hollywood with a Generic Yuletide Revenge Tale

The opening minutes of Silent Night promise something fun. There’s Joel Kinnaman, dressed in a Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer sweater, sprinting in super-slow-...

Pedro Costa on Needing Your Desire and the Stevie Wonder-Like Vision Fueling The Daughters of Fire

Rarely does a short generate interest like The Daughters of Fire, an ink-to-runtime ratio that could best be explained by its status as Pedro Costa's first pro...

The Best Directorial Debuts of 2023

Though we aim to discuss a wide breadth of films each year, few things give us more pleasure than the arrival of bold, new voices. It's why we venture to festi...

The End We Start From Trailer: Jodie Comer Tries to Find Her Way Home in a Submerged London

While one of her 2023 features won't be coming out until 2024 as Jeff Nichols' The Bikeriders got delayed while a new distributor came on board, another Jodie ...

DOC NYC Review: Apolonia, Apolonia is a Meditative Exploration of Identity, Work, and Evolution

Following, in intimate detail, the making of an art star in her early days, Lea Glob’s Apolonia, Apolonia is a powerful meditation on art and evolution. At one...

News

James Gray to Direct Adam Driver, Jeremy Strong, and Anne Hathaway in Paper Tiger

Tarsem Singh, Jaume Collet-Serra, Kim Jee-woon, Paul W.S. Anderson & More Set Next Films

Metrograph Launches Print Publication with Inaugural Issue Featuring Ryusuke Hamaguchi, Clint Eastwood, Ari Aster & More

Trailers

The End Trailer: Tilda Swinton, Michael Shannon, and George MacKay Ring in the Apocalypse

Michel Gondry Returns to Animation in First Trailer for Maya, Give Me a Title

Steven Soderbergh Tells a Ghost Story in New Trailer for Presence

Reviews

AFI Review: Vermiglio Paints a Lyrical Portrait of Desires Constrained by Catholicism

Paddington in Peru Review: Threequel Fails to Climb to Franchise Heights

Juror #2 Review: Courtroom Thriller Represents the Best from Clint Eastwood’s Late Era

Features

Tokyo International Film Festival Artistic Director Ichiyama Shôzô Offers Insight Into a Growing Organization

Posterized November 2024: A Traveler’s Needs, Queer, Flow, Bird & More

New to Streaming: Catherine Breillat, The Substance, Last Things, The Apprentice, and More

Interviews

“Less Money, More Liberty”: Paulo Branco on a Cinematic Life with David Cronenberg, Manoel De Oliveira, and Raúl Ruiz

“Nobody Ever Gave Me Anything”: Alan Rudolph on Robert Altman, Bruce Willis, Kurt Vonnegut, and Resurrecting Breakfast of Champions

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

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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