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NYC Weekend Watch: Rohmer Shorts, The Stranger and the Fog, Phantom Thread on 70mm & More

NYC Weekend Watch is our weekly round-up of repertory offerings. Brooklyn Center for Theatre ResearchMy screening series Amnesiascope partners again with Ro...

James Ivory and Stephen Soucy on Merchant Ivory’s Legacy, Life-Long Collaboration, and Their Best Film

James Ivory has made so many films. And of the forty-plus he’s made––nearly everything under the Merchant Ivory Productions banner––many are masterpieces. Trul...

Memoir of a Snail Trailer: Mary & Max Director Adam Elliot Returns With First Claymation Feature in 15 Years

Recently featured on our fall movie preview, Memoir of a Snail marks the long-awaited return to feature filmmaking from Adam Elliot, director of 2009's Mary &a...

New to Streaming: Trap, Lee Chang-dong, Kinds of Kindness, Napoleon: Director’s Cut & More

Each week we highlight the noteworthy titles that have recently hit streaming platforms in the United States. Check out this week’s selections below and past r...

The Film Stage Show Bonus Ep. – Box Office Bonanza (January 14, 2005)

Welcome to a new episode from The Film Stage! It’s not The Film Stage Show. It’s not The B-Side! It’s something else! It’s a Box Office Bonanza from The Film S...

Venice Review: Pablo Larraín’s Sparse But Admirable Maria Paints a Tragic Portrait

After the detour of El Conde, Pablo Larraín returns with a study of opera singer Maria Callas, thus closing out a triptych of films on glamorous women, gilded ...

Martin Scorsese on Marlon Brando’s One-Eyed Jacks: “It Cries Back to the End of the Westerns”

Whatever pedigree ought to be established as the sole film directed by Marlon Brando, One-Eyed Jacks spent so much time in obscure status and degraded states t...

“I Hate Her”: Zia Anger on the Thorny Self-Portrait My First Film

Zia Anger's name has not broken into the mainstream; it's instead been a kind of totem for underground film artistry, to whatever extent that even exists anymo...

The Telluride Film Festival’s 2024 Lineup Includes Alfonso Cuarón, Guy Maddin, Alain Guiraudie & More

Unless you're a major studio or willing to pay for a rent-spiked ski lodge––and even then––few festivals ring more exclusive than Telluride, which has the dist...

The Falling Star Review: Jacques Tati-Esque Noir Falls Just Short of Absurdist Ambitions

What if Jacques Tati made a film noir? The Falling Star offers a commendable answer to this question, though the final result does not quite live up to such ex...

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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