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Louis Garrel on The Innocent, Making the Audience Happy, and How to Be a Good Cinephile

That English-language cinema has no parallel for the Garrel family is equal testament to their legacy and our shallow, piddling culture. While Philippe Garrel'...

Cauleen Smith on Restoring Drylongso, the Mundanity of Violence and Scotch Tape Filmmaking

In Drylongso, Pica (Toby Smith) coughs her way through each day. She goes to photography class at the local college, works nights putting up posters for variou...

Berlinale Review: Hong Sangsoo Further Distills His Cinema with the Radically Focused In Water

As years pass by and films rack up, it's only natural to associate directors with certain things. And none more so than Hong Sangsoo, for whom a new release us...

Exclusive Trailer for Helena Wittmann’s Human Flowers of Flesh Embarks on a Transporting Seaside Voyage

One of the most exciting directorial debuts of recent years is Helena Wittmann's 2017 feature Drift, a formally audacious aquatic journey. The German filmmaker...

A24 to Restore Jonathan Demme’s Stop Making Sense in 4K for Worldwide Theatrical Release

While David Byrne didn't nab his second Oscar due to the powerhouse that was RRR, one imagines he's in good spirits being part of a film that swept the ceremon...

Boston Strangler Review: Keira Knightley Shines in Workmanlike Procedural

In the early 1960s, 13 women were murdered around the Boston area. Most were strangled with their own nylon stockings, leading the press to dub the murderer th...

First Trailer for Matt Johnson’s BlackBerry Restages the Birth of the First Smartphone

In the hands of anyone else, a movie about the birth of a technological innovation that reshaped culture may seem like a simple knockoff of The Social Network ...

The Innocent Review: Louis Garrel Crafts a Charming Rom-Com Caper

Eternally the rebellious loverboy of the Sarkozy era, Louis Garrel, now at 40, is seemingly easing into an elder statesman role. No longer too brooding a prese...

SXSW Review: Down Low is a Forced and Mismatched Gay Sex Comedy

Down Low desperately wants to be funny and push boundaries. You can see it straining from the very beginning, when Cameron (Lukas Gage), a gay and Gen-Z masseu...

Full River Red Review: Zhang Yimou’s Breezy Blockbuster Blends Comedy and Suspense

Named after one of China's most famous poems––one the film says the nation can still recite by memory today––Zhang Yimou's Full River Red takes us back to the ...

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

The End Trailer: Tilda Swinton, Michael Shannon, and George MacKay Ring in the Apocalypse

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

Reviews

AFI Review: Vermiglio Paints a Lyrical Portrait of Desires Constrained by Catholicism

Paddington in Peru Review: Threequel Fails to Climb to Franchise Heights

Juror #2 Review: Courtroom Thriller Represents the Best from Clint Eastwood’s Late Era

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

“Less Money, More Liberty”: Paulo Branco on a Cinematic Life with David Cronenberg, Manoel De Oliveira, and Raúl Ruiz

“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

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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