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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...

Trenque Lauquen Director Laura Citarella on Crafting an Ever-Changing Epic and Being Inspired by Agnès Varda

Argentinian writer-director Laura Citarella, part of the film collective El Pampero Cine responsible for such monumental work as La Flor, presented her third f...

The Film Stage & Bleeding Edge Present the Toronto Premiere of Bertrand Bonello’s Coma This May

Few––I mean one or two––films from last year were equal to Bertrand Bonello's Coma. It also never got a theatrical release. Though I'd try offering some explan...

Cannes Directors’ Fortnight 2023 Features New Films by Hong Sangsoo, Michel Gondry, Sean Price Williams & More

After Cannes Film Festival announced its main lineup last week, the Directors' Fortnight and Critics' Week sidebars have unveiled their slates. Now in its 55th...

The Film Stage Show Ep. 503 – The Super Mario Bros. Movie (with Valerie Ettenhofer)

Welcome, one and all, to the latest episode of The Film Stage Show! Today, The B-Side host Conor O'Donnell joins Robyn Bahr, Bill Graham, and special guest Val...

The Starling Girl Trailer: Eliza Scanlen Seeks Escape From a Fundamentalist Christian Community

After breaking out in Babyteeth and Little Women, Eliza Scanlen finds an impressive new starring role with The Starling Girl. The directorial debut of Laurel P...

Renfield Review: A Hilarious Concept Caged by an Uninspired Action Plot

Suffering from genre dysphoria, Renfield has all elements in place for a hilarious comedy but ultimately takes itself just a little too seriously for its conce...

The Criterion Collection’s July Lineup Includes After Hours, Breathlesss, and Budd Boetticher in 4K

How many movies are roundly better than Martin Scorsese's After Hours? Whatever the number (seriously: six?) it is now surely among the greatest in the Criteri...

NYC Weekend Watch: Freddy Got Fingered, Ryûsuke Hamaguchi, For the Plasma & More

Life WorldFilm Stage contributor Matthew Danger Lippman hosts a screening of Tom Green's masterpiece Freddy Got Fingered this Friday, with tickets for $5 at th...

Sick of Myself Director Kristoffer Borgli on Narcissism, Body Horror in Comedies, and Art World Competitiveness

Sick of Myself, the sickly comedy from Norwegian director Kristoffer Borgli, begins with a measure of artistic innocence. Two struggling artists steal a bott...

News

James Gray to Direct Adam Driver, Jeremy Strong, and Anne Hathaway in Paper Tiger

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

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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