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No Other Land Announced as Winner of the 2024 Indie Film Site Network Advocate Award

Each year at the Indie Film Site Network (IFSN), we're honored to highlight independent films that illuminate a humanitarian or environmental issue with a sing...

DIG! XX Trailer: Ondi Timoner’s Cult Classic Rock Doc Gets Expanded Edition This January

One of the great music documentaries of all-time has received new life. For its 20th anniversary, Ondi Timoner's DIG! has received a remastered and enhanced ve...

First Images From Andrew Ahn’s The Wedding Banquet Remake Starring Lily Gladstone, Kelly Marie Tran, Bowen Yang & More

Among our most-anticipated films of 2025 is the latest from Driveways and Fire Island director Andrew Ahn. His remake of Ang Lee’s The Wedding Banquet brings t...

Watch: Hoyte van Hoytema Follows Oppenheimer With Emotional New Volvo Short Film

After his well-deserved Oscar win for Christopher Nolan's Oppenheimer, we have to imagine cinematographer Hoyte van Hoytema will reteam with the director for h...

Listen to Three Tracks from Daniel Blumberg’s Incredible Score for The Brutalist

We're now just under a month away from Brady Corbet's staggering third feature The Brutalist and today brings a welcome tease. Daniel Blumberg composed over tw...

The Black Sea Review: A Dynamic Lead Performance Drives Familiar Fish-Out-of-Water Story

For most of its runtime, Crystal Moselle and Derrick B. Harden’s fish-out-of-water non-fiction hybrid The Black Sea teeters on the edge of being too cute. But ...

Thessaloniki Review: When the Light Breaks Showcases a Dawn-to-Dusk Tragedy with Raw Depth

Watching When the Light Breaks on a recent day in Thessaloniki, I spared a thought for anyone in the audience who might be wary of Gen-Z's famed sensitivity. F...

New to Streaming: Blitz, The Piano Lesson, Flipside, We Live in Time, Alien: Romulus & 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...

NYC Weekend Watch: Dirty Work, Shelley Duvall, Robert Frank & More

NYC Weekend Watch is our weekly round-up of repertory offerings. Roxy CinemaAn Adrian Lyne retrospective features Fatal Attraction, Jacob's Ladder, Lolita, ...

Exclusive Trailer for Ben Petrie’s The Heirloom Introduces Acclaimed Rom-Com Psychodrama

One of the highlights from International Film Festival Rotterdam earlier this year was Ben Petrie's The Heirloom, a rom-com psychodrama in which he stars along...

News

Exclusive: Roman Coppola Backs Full Short, a New Initiative to Empower Ukrainian Filmmakers

Cahiers du cinéma’s Top 10 Films of 2024 Includes Misericordia, Evil Does Not Exist, and Trap

Trailer for Palestine’s Oscar Entry From Ground Zero + Exclusive Poster Giveaway

Trailers

Exclusive U.S. Trailer for Oceans Are the Real Continents Tells a Trio of Stories in Cuba

Michael Mann’s The Keep Gets 4K Restoration in New Trailer for Vinegar Syndrome Release

Sujo Trailer: Mexico’s Oscar Entry From Identifying Features Team Arrives Next Week

Reviews

Nosferatu Review: Robert Eggers’ Haunting Vampire Tale is a Feast for the Senses

Thessaloniki Review: Holy Electricity is a Directorial Debut That Finds Substance in Unusual Places

The Black Sea Review: A Dynamic Lead Performance Drives Familiar Fish-Out-of-Water Story

Features

The Best Directorial Debuts of 2024

15 Films to See in December

NYC Weekend Watch: The Wages of Fear, Carrie & More

Interviews

“It’s All Marketing”: Ed Lachman on HDR, Maria, and Lifetime Achievement Awards

The Seed of the Sacred Fig Director Mohammad Rasoulof on Filming in Secret and the Repression of the Islamic Republic

Gaucho Gaucho Directors Michael Dweck and Gregory Kershaw on Mythology, Compositions, and Community

Podcasts

The Film Stage Show Bonus Ep. – Box Office Bonanza (July 21, 2000)

The B-Side – Ridley Scott (with Maria Lewis)

The B-Side – Gwyneth Paltrow (with Cory Everett)

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No Other Land Announced as Winner of the 2024 Indie Film Site Network Advocate Award

DIG! XX Trailer: Ondi Timoner’s Cult Classic Rock Doc Gets Expanded Edition This January

First Images From Andrew Ahn’s The Wedding Banquet Remake Starring Lily Gladstone, Kelly Marie Tran, Bowen Yang & More

Watch: Hoyte van Hoytema Follows Oppenheimer With Emotional New Volvo Short Film

Listen to Three Tracks from Daniel Blumberg’s Incredible Score for The Brutalist

The Black Sea Review: A Dynamic Lead Performance Drives Familiar Fish-Out-of-Water Story

Thessaloniki Review: When the Light Breaks Showcases a Dawn-to-Dusk Tragedy with Raw Depth

New to Streaming: Blitz, The Piano Lesson, Flipside, We Live in Time, Alien: Romulus & More

NYC Weekend Watch: Dirty Work, Shelley Duvall, Robert Frank & More

Exclusive Trailer for Ben Petrie’s The Heirloom Introduces Acclaimed Rom-Com Psychodrama