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Fremont Trailer: Sundance Favorite Tells a Jarmuschian Tale of Identity

A highlight at Sundance Film Festival earlier this year Babak Jalali’s Jarmuschian tale of assimilation and identity, Fremont, is now gearing up for a release ...

Ira Sachs on Passages: “I Wanted to Make a Horny Film”

Tomas (Franz Rogowski) seems to have it all: a career as a director, marriage to Martin (Ben Whishaw), and the freedom to pursue his desires as he wishes. In P...

Carpet Cowboys Exclusive Trailer: John Wilson-Backed Documentary Examines the Carpet Capital of the World

While How to with John Wilson is closing out its brilliant, three-season run, its creator has boarded a new project that shares his passion for looking at the ...

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem Review: A Likable Adventure Too Beholden to the Moment

Four teenage boys run through the streets of New York City. They go to their local bodega, pick up pizzas, watch a movie in the park, and head back home later ...

The 1990 Producer Lockout Exemplifies the Tense History of Hollywood’s Labor Relations

The following article is written by Michael Lee Nirenberg, author of the forthcoming oral history Cinematic Immunity. In light of recent labor actions by ...

Dreamin’ Wild Review: A Kind, Slight Look At Dreams Lost, Then Found

Dreams are hard. Most of us wake up. And what a sad thing that is. Dreamin' Wild, written and directed by Bill Pohlad and based on the article "Fruitland" by S...

Jim Jarmusch Will Never See a Star Wars Film: “I Resent That I Know So Much About Them”

Jim Jarmusch has undoubtedly been the most visible peripheral filmmaker of the last thirty years. Since his jagged rise to fame in the mid-1980s, he has worked...

Richard Kelly on Creative Heartbreak, Political Cinema, and Future Projects

First things first: I was kindly told not to ask Richard Kelly about any forthcoming projects. It will soon be 14 years since his much-better-than-you-remember...

The Film Stage Show Ep. 516 – Oppenheimer (with Inkoo Kang)

Welcome, one and all, to the latest episode of The Film Stage Show! Today, Brian Roan, Bill Graham, and Robyn Bahr are joined by Inkoo Kang to discuss Ch...

First Look at Harmony Korine’s Infrared Action Film Aggro Dr1ft Starring Travis Scott

It was just a few weeks ago we exclusively shared the news that Harmony Korine had completed his next project, an action-oriented feature shot entirely in infr...

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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