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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...

New to Streaming: One Fine Morning, No Bears, The Plains, Linoleum, Emily & 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...

Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman Review: Haruki Murakami Anthology Gets an Eerie, Alien-Like Animated Adaptation

The short stories of Haruki Murakami are becoming an increasing fixture on the big screen––it may have taken considerably more time since their initial publica...

A Life on the Farm Review: Portrait of Experimental Filmmaker & Farmer Harvests Judgemental Cruelty

A Life on the Farm is centered on the story of Charles Carson, a farmer who made experimental, absurdist home movies in his spare time. This information is imm...

Saint Laurent Launches Production Company to Develop Films By David Cronenberg, Abel Ferrara, Wong Kar-wai, Jim Jarmusch, and More

In a development that confirms our long-held beliefs (fashion is fake but movies are real), Saint Laurent's artistic director Anthony Vaccarello has launched S...

Bob Dylan’s Concert Film Shadow Kingdom Arriving In June; Listen to the First Track

Your local Bob Dylan obsessive has surely mentioned Shadow Kingdom, the 2021 concert film that saw him rework an assortment of earlier songs––some established ...

Helena Wittmann on Human Flowers of Flesh, the Constant Evolution of Claire Denis, and Underwater Cinematography

With only two feature films, German director Helena Wittmann has established herself as one of the most distinctive voices in international cinema. Her 2017 de...

Exclusive Trailer for Giving Birth to a Butterfly Captures a Surreal, Dreamlike Road Trip, Shot on 16mm

One of the highlights we caught at Fantasia International Film Festival in 2021 now has a home and it's arriving sooner than expected. Theodore Schaefer’s debu...

Cannes Film Festival 2023 Lineup Features Jonathan Glazer, Todd Haynes, Nuri Bilge Ceylan, Wes Anderson & More

It's Christmas morning for cinephiles. As per tradition, the Cannes Film Festival unveiled its 2023 selections in a press conference early this morning––at lea...

One of Japan’s Greatest Directors Gets Restored In Trailer for Rites of Passage: The Films of Shinji Somai

A certain type of cinephile weeb (hello) holds maybe no post-New Wave Japanese director more highly than Shinji Somai, but it's the nature of such fandom that ...

News

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

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

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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