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Jazzy Trailer: Morrisa Maltz’s The Unknown Country Expansion Arrives in February

Expanding the cinematic universe of her first feature The Unknown Country, Morrisa Maltz’s Jazzy premiered at last year's Tribeca Festival and will now arrive ...

Sundance Review: The Ballad of Wallis Island Strums a Charming Story of Moving On

You know when you hear a song and it transports you back to an era or a memory or a moment? It’s this involuntary mental reflex that can be marvelous, painful,...

Sundance Review: Sunfish (& Other Stories on Green Lake) Captures a Bittersweet Longing

Filmmaker Sierra Falconer's Sunfish (& Other Stories on Green Lake) captures a bittersweet feeling. That feeling of endings and beginnings, happening a...

Sundance Review: Two Women Flips the Sex Comedy Script with Hilarious, Refreshing Frankness

If, by and large, American cinema has taken a puritanical view on sex, leave it to our neighbors up north to craft a refreshingly frank, hilarious comedy o...

Sundance Review: OBEX is an Inventive, Lo-Fi, and Otherworldly Adventure

While the likes of David Cronenberg’s Videodrome and Steven Lisberger’s TRON have examined the thrills and fears of humanity’s relationship with screens since ...

Paul Thomas Anderson’s One Battle After Another Test Screens, Confirmed to Be Modern Update on Vineland

“I need to start figuring out what the f— to say,” Paul Thomas Anderson recently said when it came to his biggest project yet, a $115 million Warner Bros. summ...

Sundance Review: Cinderella Gets a Gruesome, Empathetic Body Horror Twist with The Ugly Stepsister

If the disheartening lack of creativity in Disney’s live-action remakes leaves one thinking these timeless stories have, in fact, run their course, leave it to...

NYC Weekend Watch: Michael Roemer, Wandering Women, David Lynch & More

NYC Weekend Watch is our weekly round-up of repertory offerings. Film ForumMichael Roemer's Dying and Pilgrim, Farewell, screen (watch our exclusive trailer...

Flight Risk Review: Mel Gibson’s Claustrophobic Thriller is Never as Campy as It Should Be

It’s more than a little odd when a director’s follow-up film to an Oscar-nominated hit is being offloaded onto theaters in the frozen tundra that is "dumpuary....

New to Streaming: Nosferatu, Oh, Canada, The Girl with the Needle & 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...

News

Mamoru Oshii Expresses Hopes for Ghost in the Shell 3

The Criterion Collection’s June Lineup Features Mishima, Sorcerer, and Brazil on 4K

Leonardo DiCaprio Will Lead Martin Scorsese’s Home; Apple and Todd Field to Produce

Trailers

David Cronenberg Finds Connection After Death in New Trailer for The Shrouds

Exclusive Trailer and Poster for Love Hotel Restores Shinji Somai’s Pinku Classic

Sex Work in 1970s Japan Gets the Spotlight in Exclusive Trailer for Noboru Tanaka’s Newly Restored The Oldest Profession

Reviews

Pet Shop Days Review: An Admirably Abrasive Film With a Blistering Hero at the Helm

The Actor Review: André Holland is Terrific in Duke Johnson’s Surreal Solo Directorial Debut

SXSW Review: Death of a Unicorn is a Mythical, Predictable Genre Mash-Up

Features

New to Streaming: I’m Still Here, All We Imagine as Light, Trap, Every Little Thing & More

NYC Weekend Watch: Scorsese Selects, Nightshift, Lou Ye & More

The Best Movies Now Playing in Theaters

Interviews

Duke Johnson on Charlie Kaufman’s Advice and the Philosophies of Identity That Guide The Actor

Andrew Davis on His New Novel Disturbing the Bones, Remembering Gene Hackman, and the Difficulties of Trying to Get Movies Made Today

Philippe Lesage on Who by Fire, the Importance of Imperfection, and What TV Can Never Steal From Cinema

Podcasts

The B-Side – Amy Irving and Peter Riegert on Crossing Delancey

The Film Stage Presents Emulsion: Episode One

The B-Side – 2025 Oscars Special (with Joe Reid & Chris Feil)

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