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Cannes Review: Takeshi Kitano’s Sleek Filmmaking Rescues Kubi From Knotty Plot

For all their grisly mayhem, the earliest films by Takeshi Kitano all demonstrated a keen grasp of negation. Violence was an omnipresent fixture of his first c...

Nicole Holofcener on Fighting for Small Character Moments and the Useless Aspects of Film School

There’s a comfort witnessing characters in a Nicole Holofcener film discuss banal, everyday topics—ones largely absent in cinema. In her latest, You Hurt My Fe...

MUBI Unveils June 2023 Lineup

MUBI has announced its lineup of streaming offerings for next month, including the exclusive streaming premiere of Albert Serra's extraordinary Pacifiction, a ...

Cannes Review: Michel Gondry’s The Book of Solutions Digs into the Magic and Hardships of the Filmmaking Process

When the film you’ve always wanted to make gets shut down by unconvinced producers, you have two choices: you still try to make it, or you make it. This is the...

Cannes Review: Justine Triet’s Anatomy of a Fall is a Black Comic Legal Procedural

The ensuing days after a romantic breakup, even if it isn’t a cataclysmic one, are an uncanny time. Perhaps once the spell of verbal conflict and sparring's ce...

Cannes Review: How to Have Sex Examines the Ambiguities of Girlhood

Touching down in Heraklion, on the Greek island of Crete, marks the beginning of summer holidays for Tara (Mia McKenna-Bruce), Skye (Lara Peake), and Em (Enva ...

Sofia Coppola Will Release Her First Book This Fall Alongside Her New Film Priscilla

While there has not been a shortage of books about Sofia Coppola, the filmmaker has now completed her first book. A career-spanning summation, Sofia Coppola Ar...

The Criterion Channel Announce June Lineup: Method Acting, Marilyn Monroe, Louis Garrel & More

Just in time for Succession's end, let's look at method acting. The Criterion Channel are highlighting the controversial practice in a 27-film series centered ...

Cannes Review: With May December, Todd Haynes Finds a Mercurial, Humorous Perspective on a Scandal

It would be one thing for someone to have their life portrayed onscreen by an A-list actor, and another to invite that actor into their home for accuracy, to m...

Cannes Review: Joanna Arnow’s The Feeling That the Time for Doing Something Has Passed Marks a Singular Debut

In The Feeling That the Time for Doing Something Has Passed, Ann, a lugubrious New Yorker, sleepwalks through her daily life––colorless job, perennially disapp...

News

Exclusive: Marianne Jean-Baptiste is Unraveling in New Artwork for Mike Leigh’s Hard Truths

Exclusive: Cannes and ND/NF Selection Lost Country Acquired by Altered Innocence

The Way of the Wind is the “Most Important Film” to Terrence Malick

Trailers

Vulgar Auteurism Lives with Trailer for Paul W.S. Anderson’s George R.R. Martin Adaptation In the Lost Lands

Barry Keoghan and Christopher Abbott Clash in First Trailer for Bring Them Down

AI Technology Resurrects Life After Death in Exclusive Trailer for Eternal You

Reviews

From Ground Zero Review: Palestine’s Oscar Entry Is a Sobering Anthology Capturing Life During Wartime

Santosh Review: U.K.’s Oscar Entry is a Taut Exploration of Gender Politics and Police Corruption

Laceno D’Oro Review: Pastoral Hybrid Doc Savanna and the Mountain Confronts An Urgent Struggle with Humor and Charm

Features

Joshua Bogatin’s Top 10 Films of 2024

Oliver Weir’s Top 10 Films of 2024

Jared Mobarak’s Top 10 Films of 2024

Interviews

Adrien Brody on Pulling Personal History into The Brutalist, Overlooked Performances, and Acting with Beyoncé

“It Was Worth the Hassle”: The Brutalist Editor Dávid Jancsó on Deliberate Pacing, Multiple Formats, and Crying at Venice

The Brutalist Cinematographer Lol Crawley on VistaVision, the 70mm Experience, and Brady Corbet’s Flexibility

Podcasts

The B-Side – Al Pacino (with Mitchell Beaupre)

The B-Side – Jack Lemmon (with Mitchell Beaupre)

The Film Stage Show Bonus Ep. – Box Office Bonanza (July 21, 2000)

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