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DOC NYC Review: Merchant Ivory is a Nifty Chronicle of Independent Pioneers

The best moments of Merchant Ivory––a documentary directed by Stephen Soucy concerning the legendary production company––feel like their most-successful pictur...

A Still Small Voice Director Luke Lorentzen on Access, Honest Moments, and Patient Filmmaking

There are so many scenes in A Still Small Voice that will stay with viewers. Or at least it feels that way. In truth, the 90-minute documentary mostly consists...

Daisy Ridley Contemplates Mortality in First Trailer for Sometimes I Think About Dying

Whether you are shutting down inane audience "questions" or using your clout to get indie films financed, most involved in the new generation of Star Wars are ...

Watch Paul Thomas Anderson’s New Music Video for The Smile’s “Wall of Eyes”

After many film and music collaborations between Paul Thomas Anderson, Thom Yorke, and Jonny Greenwood, they've once again teamed for a new project. Following ...

Darren Aronofsky to Direct Elon Musk Biopic for A24

In my time working at a bookstore in Princeton, NJ, I weathered three Walter Isaacson releases: “Do we have more Musk downstairs?” These glossy bricks appeared...

New to Streaming: The Killer, The Curse, The Eternal Memory, Dicks: The Musical, Scrapper & 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...

The Film Stage Show Ep. 519 – Priscilla (with Katarina Docalovich)

Welcome to a new episode of The Film Stage Show! On a new episode, Brian Roan and Robyn Bahr are joined by special guest Katarina Docalovich to discuss Sofia C...

NYC Weekend Watch: 35 Shots of Rum, ’50s Hitchcock, Surrealist Marxism & More

NYC Weekend Watch is our weekly round-up of repertory offerings. Museum of the Moving ImageReverse Shot celebrates its 20th anniversary with a months-l...

Wim Wenders Soundtracks Fiction’s Ritual in U.S. Trailer for Perfect Days

The power of Lou Reed’s “Perfect Day” stems from its restraint: a piano’s torch song, nearly Sinatra-like; the singer’s nasal-mush baritone, divinely. Strings ...

“I Don’t Think Directors Should Be Amenable”: Erik Messerschmidt on Shooting The Killer and David Fincher’s Simple Process

One of my most-read pieces last year revolved around two films that hadn't shown a single frame. Strange except for the fact that it was a conversation with Er...

News

Léa Seydoux, Lee Kang-sheng, Margaret Qualley, Steven Yeun, Natalie Portman, Armie Hammer & More Set Next Roles

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

2024 Gotham Awards Nominations Unveiled

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

The Graduates Review: A Melancholic Look at a Community Bonded by Tragedy

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

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

“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

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

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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