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New Directors/New Films Unveils 2025 Lineup

After showcasing work from the likes of Ryûsuke Hamaguchi, Hou Hsiao-hsien, Kelly Reichardt, Pedro Almodóvar, Souleymane Cissé, Jia Zhangke, Spike Lee, Lynne R...

Matías Piñeiro on You Burn Me, Departing Shakespeare, and Hong Sangsoo’s Constant Reinvention

"Focus the text" commands a translation app pop-up at the mid-point of Matías Piñeiro’s new experimental essay film You Burn Me. It’s a mantra that the Argenti...

X-Rated Trailer for Bruce LaBruce’s The Visitor Offers Up an Explicit Game of Seduction

After making a splash with his uncompromising incest drama Saint-Narcisse, underground Canadian filmmaker Bruce LaBruce returned to Berlinale last year with Th...

Exclusive U.S. Trailer for Acclaimed French Thriller The Temple Woods Gang, Coming to NYC on March 12

Named one of the 10 best films of Cahiers du Cinéma back in 2023, Rabah Ameur-Zaïmeche's crime thriller The Temple Woods Gang is finally getting a proper U.S. ...

The Rule of Jenny Pen Review: John Lithgow Torments Geoffrey Rush in Depraved Psychological Horror

Three decades on from Brian De Palma’s gleefully unhinged psychological thriller Raising Cain, John Lithgow has once again found a cinematic role to showcase h...

Paris’ La Clef Revival Comes to New York for Week of Film Screenings; Watch Appreciations from Martin Scorsese and John Carpenter

Wherever you call home, it's hard to be invested in cinephile culture without a mind towards its health. It was hardly some casual choice when Sean Baker took ...

There’s Still Tomorrow Director Paola Cortellesi on Domestic Violence, Global Success, and Drawing From Italian Neorealism

After decades of celebrated performances in Italian cinema and television, Paola Cortellesi made her directorial debut with There's Still Tomorrow, a 1940s-set...

News

Japan Cuts Announces 2026 Slate Featuring Hirokazu Kore-eda, Gakuryu Ishii, Yoji Yamada & More

Alice Rohrwacher to Direct The Baron in the Trees; Next Film to Be Primarily Silent

Cristian Mungiu’s Fjord Wins Palme d’Or: See Full List of Cannes 2026 Winners

Trailers

Exclusive Trailer for Greg Vrotsos’ Feature Debut Situations Follows a Journey of Love and Ambition in Los Angeles

I Want Your Sex Trailer: Gregg Araki Returns with Olivia Wilde and Cooper Hoffman

Reviews

I Am Frankelda Review: Mexico’s First Stop-Motion Feature Speaks Truth to Power

The Gas Station Attendant Review: A Compelling If Formally Unsure Immigrant Story

It’s Dorothy! Review: Documenting 125 Years of Joy

Features

The Film Stage’s 2026 Tribeca Festival Portrait Gallery

NYC Weekend Watch: Italian History, Universal Westerns, Black Cops & More

Posterized June 2026: Maddie’s Secret, The Furious, Drunken Noodles & More

Interviews

“The Hard Work Is In the Screenwriting”: John Sayles on Resourceful Filmmaking, James Cameron, and His TIFF Retrospective

The Currents Director Milagros Mumenthaler on Sensory Filmmaking, Motherhood, and Capturing an Internal State

“Making Movies Should Be a Pleasure”: Olivier Assayas on The Wizard of the Kremlin

Podcasts

The B-Sides of Goldie Hawn with Jen Johans

The B-Sides of Laurence Fishburne with Mitchell Beaupre

The B-Sides of Eddie Murphy with Nicholas Gray and Alvin Keith

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