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Nicole Holofcener on Fighting for Small Character Moments and the Useless Aspects of Film School

There’s a comfort witnessing characters in a Nicole Holofcener film discuss banal, everyday topics—ones largely absent in cinema. In her latest, You Hurt My Fe...

MUBI Unveils June 2023 Lineup

MUBI has announced its lineup of streaming offerings for next month, including the exclusive streaming premiere of Albert Serra's extraordinary Pacifiction, a ...

Cannes Review: Michel Gondry’s The Book of Solutions Digs into the Magic and Hardships of the Filmmaking Process

When the film you’ve always wanted to make gets shut down by unconvinced producers, you have two choices: you still try to make it, or you make it. This is the...

Cannes Review: Justine Triet’s Anatomy of a Fall is a Black Comic Legal Procedural

The ensuing days after a romantic breakup, even if it isn’t a cataclysmic one, are an uncanny time. Perhaps once the spell of verbal conflict and sparring's ce...

Cannes Review: How to Have Sex Examines the Ambiguities of Girlhood

Touching down in Heraklion, on the Greek island of Crete, marks the beginning of summer holidays for Tara (Mia McKenna-Bruce), Skye (Lara Peake), and Em (Enva ...

Sofia Coppola Will Release Her First Book This Fall Alongside Her New Film Priscilla

While there has not been a shortage of books about Sofia Coppola, the filmmaker has now completed her first book. A career-spanning summation, Sofia Coppola Ar...

The Criterion Channel Announce June Lineup: Method Acting, Marilyn Monroe, Louis Garrel & More

Just in time for Succession's end, let's look at method acting. The Criterion Channel are highlighting the controversial practice in a 27-film series centered ...

Cannes Review: With May December, Todd Haynes Finds a Mercurial, Humorous Perspective on a Scandal

It would be one thing for someone to have their life portrayed onscreen by an A-list actor, and another to invite that actor into their home for accuracy, to m...

Cannes Review: Joanna Arnow’s The Feeling That the Time for Doing Something Has Passed Marks a Singular Debut

In The Feeling That the Time for Doing Something Has Passed, Ann, a lugubrious New Yorker, sleepwalks through her daily life––colorless job, perennially disapp...

Watch: Martin Scorsese & Cast Discuss Crafting Killers of the Flower Moon, Taking Risks, and Collaborating with the Osage Nation

Martin Scorsese's highly-anticipated Killers of the Flower Moon has finally entered the world, and the wait was worth it. While there most certainly will be a ...

News

Jia Zhang-ke Reveals He’s Working on an AI Short Film

Daniel Day-Lewis Ends Retirement for Anemone Co-Written with and Directed By Son Ronan Day-Lewis

Exclusive Premiere of Sean Henry’s “In Heaven” Video Reworks a Classic David Lynch Tune

Trailers

Nicholas Hoult Faces Justice In Trailer for Clint Eastwood’s Juror #2

Babygirl Trailer: Nicole Kidman and Harris Dickinson Play Erotic Games

Robert Eggers Brings the Gothic Horror in New Trailer for Nosferatu

Reviews

NYFF Review: Nickel Boys Finds Miraculous Beauty in the Horrors of the World

NYFF Review: The Friend Amply Portrays Grief with an Admirable Naomi Watts Performance

NYFF Review: Afternoons of Solitude is a Hypnotic Take on Bullfighting from Albert Serra

Features

NYC Weekend Watch: Samuel L. Jackson, Akerman-Duras, Compensation & More

Posterized October 2024: Rumours, Woman of the Hour, La Cocina & More

New to Streaming: Evil Does Not Exist, Powell and Pressburger, Red Rooms, It’s What’s Inside & More

Interviews

It’s What’s Inside Director Greg Jardin on Manifesting Anxiety, Giallo Lighting, and the Road to Success

“I Made It So I Could Breathe”: Tarsem on Restoring The Fall, Distribution Woes, and the Next Chapter

The Substance Director Coralie Fargeat on Playing By Her Own Rules and the Strong Weapon of Humor

Podcasts

The B-Side – Barbra Streisand (with Chris Feil)

The Film Stage Show Ep. 549 – Beetlejuice Beetlejuice (with Trace Sauveur)

The Film Stage Show Ep. 548 – Janet Planet (with George W. Myers)

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