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Ryûsuke Hamaguchi on Passion, Learning from Kiyoshi Kurosawa, and Rethinking How to Make Films

Friends meet at a restaurant for a birthday dinner in the opening scenes of Ryûsuke Hamaguchi's Passion. Everyone loves the wrong person. Tomoya (Ryuta Okamoto...

Sick of Myself Review: An Acidic Tale of Attention-Seeking Self-Obsession

From Sick of Myself’s opening scene depicting an awkward birthday dinner, the power dynamic between young couple Signe (Kristine Kujath Thorp) and Erik (Eirik ...

Margaret Qualley Dominates Christopher Abbott in First Trailer for Sanctuary

One of the highlights from last year's TIFF is finally heading to theaters this May. Director Zachary Wigon's Sanctuary, scripted by Micah Bloomberg, pairs Mar...

Jim Jarmusch Expects to Shoot New Feature This Year

Though Jim Jarmusch hasn't entirely fallen off the map––COVID knocked about a year from everybody's production timelines, and there is a new album from his exc...

The Film Stage Show Ep. 502 – John Wick: Chapter 4 (with Jonah Jeng)

Welcome, one and all, to the latest episode of The Film Stage Show! Today, Brian Roan and Bill Graham are joined by Jonah Jeng to discuss Chad Stahelski's John...

Rob Tregenza on Adventures in Cinema with Jean-Luc Godard, Filmmaking Technology, and His MoMA Retrospective

Some context might help. Between 1988 and 1997 the Baltimore-based filmmaker Rob Tregenza directed three features that amassed a small, enviable group of admir...

First Trailer for Sundance Horror Hit Talk to Me Unleashes Supernatural Terror

After finding Sundance success with previous horror features Hereditary and The Witch, A24 picked up YouTube creators Danny and Michael Philippou’s directorial...

Beau Is Afraid Review: Ari Aster’s Absurdist Epic Spins Its Wheels

There is a succinct, incredible moment of catharsis at the conclusion of Ari Aster’s feature debut Hereditary when one of its beleaguered, terrified protagonis...

Suzume Review: Makoto Shinkai’s Anime Fantasy is Bright, Noisy, and Shapeless

About a third of the way through pop-sensation anime auteur Makoto Shinkai’s Suzume (a third, at least, by my rough estimation––time is a flat circle in this s...

The Eight Mountains Trailer: Cannes Winner Tells a Story of Rekindled Friendship with Epic Scope

After dabbling in the Hollywood drama with Beautiful Boy, Felix van Groeningen is back, reteaming with frequent collaborator and partner Charlotte Vandermeersc...

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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