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The Film Stage Show Ep. 547 – Horizon: An American Saga – Chapter 1 (with Jen Johans)

Welcome to a new episode of The Film Stage Show! Brian Roan and Robyn Bahr are joined by Jen Johans to discuss Kevin Costner's Horizon: An American Saga – Chap...

Venice Review: Pedro Almodóvar’s The Room Next Door Faces Death with a Light, Succinct Touch

In life and in cinema, Pedro Almodóvar likes to talk about death. When people aren't losing their faculties in his films––like going blind (Folle... folle... f...

Venice Review: Walter Salles’ I’m Still Here Shows a Blissful Family Fractured Under Brazilian Dictatorship

The Motorcycle Diaries director Walter Salles developed I’m Still Here for seven years before it premiered as part of Venice's Main Competition this year. That...

11 Must-See Short Films at TIFF 2024

With the Toronto International Film Festival starting, there’s plenty to look forward to on the feature front. There’s also much room for discovery among Short...

Venice Review: No Sleep Till Takes an Existential Look Inside Florida’s Hurricane Season

A hurricane is coming and Atlantic Beach, Florida is directly in its path. The tourists have already left. Most residents remain. Why? Because this is hurrican...

Venice Review: Wolfs Makes Little of a Reunion for George Clooney and Brad Pitt

It’s been nine years since Jon Watts made a feature film that wasn’t about Spider-Man––long enough that for the past three years his MCU entries have outnumber...

Venice Review: Brady Corbet’s The Brutalist is an Ecstatic Reminder of What Cinema Does Best

When The Childhood of a Leader premiered at the 2015 Venice Film Festival, you had to wonder where Brady Corbet could possibly go next. There was just somethin...

Venice Review: Cloud Finds Kiyoshi Kurosawa in Unstoppable Shape

Kiyoshi Kurosawa is having quite the year. Chime, a mid-length chiller, was a standout at the Berlinale. A French-language remake of his own Serpent’s Path wil...

Nicolas Winding Refn to Shoot New Feature In Japan

Nicolas Winding Refn's produced so much material these last ten years––Copenhagen Cowboy's five hours are slim compared with Too Old to Die Young, which I susp...

Venice Review: Halina Reijn’s Babygirl Marks a New Era of the Erotic Movie

Boosted by Locarno-awarded debut Instinct, Dutch actor-director Halina Reijn fit nicely in the A24 canon with her satirical thriller Bodies Bodies Bodies. Yet ...

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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