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Posterized September 2023: Rotting in the Sun, Fair Play, Perpetrator & More

There are a lot of generic looking poster this month. I guess that's what happens when the big names are all existing IP whether it be Robert McCall, H...

New to Streaming: Astrakan, Perpetrator, Domino, The Last Voyage of the Demeter & 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...

Venice Review: Luc Besson’s Dogman Never Lives Up to Trashy, Deranged Potential

Whatever one may think of Luc Besson’s oeuvre, his films work best when they live up to their trashy potential. The director’s cinema is littered with all-out ...

MUBI Unveils September 2023 Lineup

MUBI has announced its lineup of streaming offerings for September, including the exclusive streaming premieres for Rebecca Zlotowski's Other People's Children...

12 Films to See in September

While our massive, 60-film fall movie preview gives a hint at what to expect this season, it's time to dive deeper into September. With films from Ethan Coen, ...

Fremont Director Babak Jalali on Finding Humor in Editing and His Love of the Hangover Trilogy

To characters in Babak Jalali’s Fremont, memories both serve an artistic purpose and function as nuisance to be dealt with. Unresolved experiences while servin...

SFF Review: Blackbird Blackbird Blackberry is a Revelatory Film with One of the Performances of the Year

Georgian cinema continues to show thriving signs of life in Blackbird Blackbird Blackberry, a film about a contently independent woman who is faced with the th...

A Mother-Stepson Relationship Forms In English-Subtitled Teaser for Catherine Breillat’s Last Summer

Playing at Cannes to nice notices and perhaps little else––no awards, alas!––Catherine Breillat's Last Summer nevertheless yields interest above much competiti...

U.S. Teaser for Fallen Leaves Promises Another Aki Kaurismäki Pleasure

Fallen Leaves, Aki Kaurismäki's first film since 2017’s The Other Side of Hope, took home the Jury Prize from this year's Cannes while charming critics more th...

A Master Gets Their Due In Trailer for Janus Films’ Ousmane Sembène Retrospective

Bearing talent equal to the totemic filmmakers of his time hasn't, all these decades hence, helped Ousmane Sembène achieve their cultural, academic, cinephilic...

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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