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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

Exclusive: Altered Innocence Acquires Restoration of Srđan Karanović’s Virgina for Fall Release

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

Trailers

Barrio Triste Trailer: Bad Bunny Collaborator Stillz’s Bold Directorial Debut Arrives In July

Cemre Paksoy’s Hands Are Tied In Trailer for Georgia Bernstein’s Sinister Sundance Favorite Night Nurse

Marcello Mastroianni Yearns In Trailer for 4K Restoration of Luchino Visconti’s White Nights

Reviews

Tribeca Review: Sophia Takal’s Act One Feels Like a Lucid Nightmare

The Death of Robin Hood Review: A Portrait of the Outlaw as a Bald-Faced Lie

Tribeca Review: Here I’m Alive Is a Raw, Intimate Look at Messy New York Lives

Features

New to Streaming: Blue Film, I Am Frankelda, It’s Dorothy! & More

The Best Movies Now Playing in Theaters

NYC Weekend Watch: Douglas Sirk in 3D, The Organizer, Body Double & More

Interviews

Read This: Wonderful and Strange Peaks, the Life of Hannibal Lecter, a Century of Hitchcock, Martin Scorsese’s Filmography & More

“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

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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