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Exclusive Alternate Poster for C.J. “Fiery” Obasi’s West Afrikan Folklore Mami Wata, Arriving This Month

One of the most visually ravishing movies I saw at Sundance Film Festival early this year was C.J. “Fiery” Obasi’s Mami Wata, "A West Afrikan Folklore," as our...

Bi Gan to Direct Sci-Fi Detective Movie Resurrection Starring Shu Qi and Jackson Yee

With his astounding debut Kaili Blues (2015) and the equally impressive 3D odyssey Long Day’s Journey Into Night (2018), Chinese director B...

Venice Review: Sofia Coppola’s Brilliant Priscilla is a Breezy, Crushing Biopic

Raised in tow of a military stepfather, 14-year-old Priscilla Beaulieu lives in a West German US Air Force base when we meet her in 1959––the year she meets El...

10 Must-See Short Films Premiering at TIFF 2023

With 42 short films across six programmes representing 23 countries, this year’s Short Cuts lineup at the Toronto International Film Festival continues its tra...

Telluride Review: Jeff Nichols’ The Bikeriders is a Muddled Chronicle of the Midwest’s Most Clean-Cut Biker Gang

Using photographer Danny Lyon’s iconic The Bikeriders’ imagery as a jumping-off point, Jeff Nichols’ latest feature imagines a fictionalized Chicago motorcycle...

Venice Review: The Beast is a Spellbinding, Time-Shifting Coup for Bertrand Bonello

Where to begin with Bertrand Bonello’s wonderful The Beast? It’s been so gratifying to see the initial reaction to the French filmmaker’s tenth feature, after ...

Watch: Cinephile Summer Season Finale Features The Film Stage vs. Bright Wall/Dark Room

Cinephile Game Night has returned with Cinephile Summer, a brand new season featuring your favorite podcasters and filmmakers going head-to-head to see who is ...

Yorgos Lanthimos and Emma Stone Secretly Shot Their Fifth Movie Together

Shaping up to be one of the most fruitful director-actor pairings of the last few years, Greek director Yorgos Lanthimos and Emma Stone collaborated for the fi...

Venice Review: Evil Does Not Exist Finds Ryusuke Hamaguchi Returning with Mystery and Snow-Capped Melodrama

Amongst a typically raucous lineup at this year's Venice Film Festival comes Evil Does Not Exist, a work in which tensions rise over little more than the place...

Venice Review: Harmony Korine Finds New Ways to Provoke in Aggro Dr1ft, a GTA Fever Dream of a Movie

Is it possible to leave your enfance without losing your terrible? The one-and-only Harmony Korine, now 50 years young, returns with Aggro Dr1ft, a premiere ou...

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

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

Exclusive Trailer for Jōhatsu, a Lithuanian Thriller Exploring a Japanese Phenomenon

Reviews

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

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

AFI Fest Review: Robert Zemeckis’ Here Plays Like the Anti-Boyhood

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

“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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