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The Criterion Channel Reveals May Lineup: Jennifer Jason Leigh, Seijun Suzuki, Demonlover, Infernal Affairs & More

A couple months after spotlighting the world's greatest actress, the Criterion Channel have taken a logical next step towards America's greatest actress. May (...

Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret Review: Kelly Fremon Craig’s Adaptation of Beloved Judy Blume Classic Stays True to Itself

Like Judy Blume’s treasured young adult classic, Kelly Fremon Craig’s Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret begins in 1970 with 11-year-old Margaret Simon (Abby...

Jake Gyllenhaal and Dar Salim on Guy Ritchie’s The Covenant and Learning from Jarhead

Twenty-three years into this new millennium, the war film genre feels at once antiquated and freshly-evolving. Guy Ritchie's The Covenant plays like a bridge b...

The B-Side – In Conversation with Richard Dreyfuss

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...

Penélope Cruz Guides Her Trans Son in U.S. Trailer for Acclaimed Drama L’immensità

A selection at Venice Film Festival and Sundance Film Festival, Emanuele Crialese's 1970s-set drama L’immensità follows Clara (Penélope Cruz) and her emotional...

To Catch a Killer Review: Damian Szifron’s Crime Procedural is Torn Between Genre Requirements and Loftier Aspirations

To Catch a Killer’s logline is about as familiar as its title: a rookie cop with a detective's intelligence and drive, Eleanor Falco (Shailene Woodley) finds h...

Nathan Lane on His Interpretation of Beau Is Afraid, Disagreeing with Ari Aster, and Making Joaquin Phoenix Laugh

Among the strange cast of characters Beau (Joaquin Phoenix) meets on his nightmarish journey through the mind of Ari Aster, perhaps the most memorable is Natha...

György Fehér’s Twilight, a Hungarian Noir Masterpiece, Gets Restored

Upon completing duties as a debut screenwriter, Friedrich Dürrenmatt celebrated a job well done by promptly rewriting the whole thing. The Swiss playwright and...

U.S. Trailer for Ashley McKenzie’s Acclaimed Queer Coming-of-Age Drama Queens of the Qing Dynasty

One of the films we hoped would get distribution at the start of the year was Ashley McKenzie's Werewolf follow-up Queens of the Qing Dynasty, a selection at B...

Guy Ritchie’s The Covenant Review: Dar Salim Shines in Military Action Throwback

What can one say about the career of Guy Ritchie? The guy was nearly as essential to the rejuvenation of the British film scene in the '90s as Danny Boyle. His...

News

Metrograph Launches Print Publication with Inaugural Issue Featuring Ryusuke Hamaguchi, Clint Eastwood, Ari Aster & More

Léa Seydoux, Lee Kang-sheng, Margaret Qualley, Steven Yeun, Natalie Portman, Armie Hammer & More Set Next Roles

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

Trailers

Michel Gondry Returns to Animation in First Trailer for Maya, Give Me a Title

Steven Soderbergh Tells a Ghost Story in New Trailer for Presence

Exclusive Trailer for Jōhatsu, a Lithuanian Thriller Exploring a Japanese Phenomenon

Reviews

Juror #2 Review: Courtroom Thriller Represents the Best from Clint Eastwood’s Late Era

The Graduates Review: A Melancholic Look at a Community Bonded by Tragedy

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

Features

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

New to Streaming: Catherine Breillat, The Substance, Last Things, The Apprentice, and More

Interviews

“Nobody Ever Gave Me Anything”: Alan Rudolph on Robert Altman, Bruce Willis, Kurt Vonnegut, and Resurrecting Breakfast of Champions

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

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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