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Watch: Sofia Coppola Directs Keanu Reeves in 100th Anniversary Celebration of Suntory Whisky

While Sofia Coppola is in the editing room ahead of a fall release of her Priscilla Presley drama, she's found time to complete her first book and, as recently...

Cannes Review: Perfect Days is Wim Wenders’ Strongest Fiction Feature in 20 Years

Wim Wenders is back, and he’s brought Lou Reed (still dead) with him. It’s not that Wenders hasn’t been making films. He has. It’s just that the only good ones...

Anatomy of a Fall Leads 2023 Cannes Film Festival Winners

The 76th edition of the Cannes Film Festival came to an end today at the awards ceremony, featuring prizes handed out by jury president Ruben Östlund and membe...

Cannes Review: About Dry Grasses is a Luminous Summation of Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s Soul-Stirring Cinema

The pastures in Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s luminous new film are only dry at the very end. Save for that brief summery coda, the landscape in About Dry Grasses remain...

Cannes Review: Karim Aïnouz’s Firebrand Sets Alicia Vikander and Jude Law in Engrossing Tudor Thriller

Few would have imagined that Brazilian-Algerian director Karim Aïnouz––whose The Invisible Life of Eurídice Gusmão won the top prize in Un Certain Regard four ...

Cannes Review: The Settlers is a Haunting Chilean Western Reckoning with the Bloody Sins of Colonialism

The barbaric, bloody sins of the past come to define what entities govern certain land today, carried out by conquistadors and colonizers who hide behind right...

What Would an Alfred Hitchcock Script Directed by Martin Scorsese Look Like?

With Martin Scorsese on the mind following the triumphant Cannes premiere of Killers of the Flower Moon, I've been looking to catch up on the last few unseen f...

Cannes Review: Jessica Hausner’s Cynical Drama Club Zero Leaves a Bad Taste in the Mouth

In Club Zero, the students of a radical nutrition class are taught the benefits of eating consciously––if they choose to eat at all. It's the latest film from ...

Cannes Review: Close Your Eyes is a Rewarding Late Work From Víctor Erice

One of the most prized moments of Howard Hawks’ macho manifesto Rio Bravo is when Dean Martin’s Dude kicks back, gazes lightheadedly at the ceiling, and moseys...

Cannes Review: With Last Summer, Catherine Breillat Admits That Love Conquers All

Anne (Léa Drucker) is an esteemed lawyer: as uncompromising as she is in her line of work, she is free to enjoy her private life. In her '40s she has it all, t...

News

Bertand Bonello, Takashi Miike, Nikyatu Jusu, and More Plan Next Features

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

Trailers

Billy Zane Transforms into Marlon Brando in First Trailer for Waltzing with Brando

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

Reviews

Riga Review: Dreamy Stereoscopic 3D Folk Tale Twittering Soul is One of a Kind

Riga Review: Saulė Bliuvaitė’s Locarno-Winning Toxic Will Worm Its Way Inside You

AFI Fest Review: September 5 is a Competent But Bloodless Thriller

Features

The Best Movies Now Playing in Theaters

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

Interviews

“Life Is Worth Celebrating”: Tyler Taormina on Christmas Eve in Miller’s Point

Kani Kusruti on All We Imagine as Light, Girls Will Be Girls, and Indian Moviegoing Culture

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

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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