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A Compassionate Spy Review: Steve James Crafts a Slippery Examination of Noble Betrayal

The latest film from acclaimed documentarian Steve James, A Compassionate Spy, comes with a fascinating subject: the spy who leaked nuclear information from th...

Klondike Director Maryna Er Gorbach on the State of the Russia-Ukraine War and Being Inspired by Maya Deren

If nothing else, Ukrainian director Maryna Er Gorbach’s first solo-helmed feature Klondike can be credited with uncanny timing. A vivid look at an ordinary far...

13 Films to See in August

While the fall movie lineup continues to shift due to studios adamantly deciding not to fairly pay the writers and actors responsible for them being in busines...

TIFF 2023 Adds New Films by Harmony Korine, Tarsem, Larry Charles, Patricia Arquette & More

The Toronto International Film Festival lineup keeps rolling in, with Midnight Madness, Discovery, and Platform programs being unveiled this week. Leading the ...

Exclusive Trailer for Astrakan Introduces an Enigmatic, Stunning Coming-of-Age Tale

A standout among feature-length directorial debuts this year, David Depesseville's Astrakan is one of the most piercing, enigmatic coming-of-age stories, provi...

The B-Side – In Conversation with Carl Franklin

Welcome to The B-Side, from The Film Stage. Here we talk about movie directors! Not the movies that made them famous or kept them famous, but the ones that the...

Our Body Review: A Deeply Felt, Poetic Hospital Visit

Claire Simon cites Frederick Wiseman’s Hospital (1970) and Near Death (1989) as key inspirations for her latest film, and for much of its 168-minute runtime Ou...

U.S. Trailer for Kōji Fukada’s Love Life Stirs Up the Past

Emerging as one of the most accomplished Japanese directors of the last decade, Harmonium and A Girl Missing director Kōji Fukada is back with his next feature...

U.S. Trailer for Kamila Andini’s Berlinale Winner Before, Now & Then

After Rory O'Connor reviewed Kamila Andini's Before, Now & Then some 18 months ago at Berlinale, where it picked up the Silver Bear for Best Supporting Per...

First Trailer and Clip for Roman Polanski’s The Palace Arrives Before Venice Premiere

Odds are low we'll watch Roman Polanski's The Palace through strictly legal means in the United States, those of us who maintain interest instead waiting for T...

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

The End Trailer: Tilda Swinton, Michael Shannon, and George MacKay Ring in the Apocalypse

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

Reviews

AFI Review: Vermiglio Paints a Lyrical Portrait of Desires Constrained by Catholicism

Paddington in Peru Review: Threequel Fails to Climb to Franchise Heights

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

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

“Less Money, More Liberty”: Paulo Branco on a Cinematic Life with David Cronenberg, Manoel De Oliveira, and Raúl Ruiz

“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

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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