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Jean-Luc Godard Reportedly Directed “Several” Films Before His Passing

In the six months since cinema lost its greatest pioneer, there has been much speculation as to the films Jean-Luc Godard left behind. Earlier this month there...

ND/NF Review: Chile ’76 is a Strong Debut Examining Turbulent History with a Narrow Focus

Manuela Martelli’s debut film opens with a sequence that perfectly captures the tone and themes Chile ‘76 will explore. Carmen (played by Aline Kuppenheim) is ...

Martin Scorsese’s Killers of the Flower Moon Officially Set for October Theatrical Release

With production kicking off just about two years ago in Oklahoma, the wait has been a long one for Martin Scorsese's western epic Killers of the Flower Moon. N...

SXSW Review: Americana Plays Like a Cover Album of B-Movie Greatest Hits

Sometimes it can be fun to watch a skillful band cover songs. Tony Tost’s Americana is precisely that: an ode to the drive-in B-movie which in turn influenced ...

SXSW Review: The Date Movie Goes to Space in the Sweet, Fluffy Comedy If You Were the Last

The old saying goes you shouldn’t marry anyone you can’t stand to be with for a three-day train ride. This is perhaps the basis for most of Richard Linklater’s...

SXSW Review: Angel Applicant is a Generous, Beautifully Crafted Self-Portrait

Building empathy through imagery, Ken August Myer’s documentary self-portrait Angel Applicant follows the filmmaker-subject as he attempts making sense of his ...

Brady Corbet’s The Brutalist Heads into Production with New Cast

Update: Joe Alwyn, Raffey Cassidy, Isaach De Bankolé, Alessandro Nivola, Stacy Martin, Jonathan Hyde, and Peter Polycarpou have also joined the cast. Follow...

Francis Ford Coppola’s Megalopolis to Get 2024 Release; Graphic Novel Tie-in Announced

With Francis Ford Coppola's decades-in-development passion project Megalopolis recently wrapped after a smooth production, there's been some speculation that t...

SXSW Review: Joy Ride is a Hilarious, Touching, and High Energy Girls Trip Across Asia

Often hilarious and moving, Adele Lim’s anticipated directorial debut Joy Ride takes the girls-trip formula (see: Bridesmaids and, of course, Girls Trip) in bo...

SXSW Review: Only the Good Survive Sets Sidney Flanigan in a Retro Horror in the Age of QAnon

For movie nerds like yours truly who grew up in the late 90s and early 2000s on films like Gregg Araki’s The Doom Generation and Rob Schmidt’s Crime and Punish...

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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