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Fantasia Review: Booger Charts a Self-Destructive Journey to Find a Missing Cat

Unable to come to terms with her best friend and roommate Izzy’s death, Anna (Grace Glowicki) does everything possible to avoid that which she cannot fix by fo...

Venice Film Festival 2023 Line-Up Unveiled

On the heels of yesterday's TIFF announcement, the first major fall festival of the season––Venice International Film Festival––is unveiling its lineup. Taking...

TIFF 2023 Unveils New Films from Bertrand Bonello, Richard Linklater, Alexander Payne & More

After unveiling a few titles, the Toronto International Film Festival has now dropped the initial 60 films taking part in their Galas and Special Presentations...

Sympathy for the Devil Review: Nicolas Cage Gets Satanic in Psychological Thriller

D (Joel Kinnaman) is never late. For anything. He couldn’t let someone down even if he tried. So there’s no reason to worry when he learns his wife has gone in...

Fantasia Review: Zach Clark’s The Becomers is a Comically Warped Satire

As the narrator (Sparks' Russell Mael) tells his story of star-crossed love many moons away, we watch as violence (awkwardly comical, violent all the same) is ...

King Coal Trailer Takes a Lyrical Look at Lives in Central Appalachia

One of the most impressive films at Sundance Film earlier this year was the latest work from Emmy-winning and Oscar-nominated filmmaker Elaine McMIllion Sheldo...

French Trailer Arrives for Philippe Garrel’s The Plough, Still Seeking U.S. Distribution

One of the most puzzling (non-) happenings in international cinema this year is the lack of U.S. distribution for Philippe Garrel's stellar new drama The Ploug...

NYC Weekend Watch: Irma Vep, Sex Scenes, Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence & More

NYC Weekend Watch is our weekly round-up of repertory offerings. Museum of Modern ArtFilms by Olivier Assayas, Jacques Rivette, Park Chan-wook, and Bon...

The 2023 Venice Classics Lineup Includes New Cuts of One from the Heart and Andrei Rublev, a Rare Orson Welles Film Restored & More

At a certain point you care less about world premieres and fixate mostly on a festival's repertory slate. And even by the high standards set with Cannes Classi...

The B-Side – Kathy Bates (with Billy Ray Brewton)

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

News

Exclusive: Paul Schrader’s Next Films Involve a Pederast Professor and a Wall Street-Set Erotic Thriller

2024 Gotham Awards Nominations Unveiled

Yokohama BJ Blues Makes U.S. Theatrical Premiere on November 11 from Amnesiascope

Trailers

First Trailer for Luca Guadagnino’s Queer Follows Daniel Craig Searching for a High

Ride a Dreamlike Musical Carousel in Exclusive Trailer for Signe Birkova’s Lotus, Partly Shot on a 1920s Camera

Raoul Peck Investigates a Photographer Pioneer in First Trailer for Ernest Cole: Lost and Found

Reviews

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

AFI Fest Review: My Favourite Cake Finds an Autumnal Romance Blooming Under Iranian Authoritarianism

NYFF Review: On Becoming a Guinea Fowl is a Powerfully Enraging, Surreally Comedic Look at Zambian Tradition

Features

Tony Leung, Johnnie To, and Chiara Mastroianni Talk Cinema’s Future as the 2024 Tokyo International Film Festival Begins

New to Streaming: Trap, One False Move, Rap World, Daaaaaalí!, The Remarkable Life of Ibelin & More

NYC Weekend Watch: Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors, Candy Mountain, Chantal Akerman, Azazel Jacobs & More

Interviews

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

“100 Clichés Move Us”: Rumours Directors Guy Maddin, Evan Johnson & Galen Johnson on Finding Humor in a World in Crisis

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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