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You’re Invited to Cinephile Game Night Live at Alamo Drafthouse Brooklyn with Special Guests We Hate Movies

To celebrate the release of My First Movie: Vol. 1, we’re bringing Cinephile Game Night back to the Alamo Drafthouse Brooklyn this month and you’re invited! Th...

Sundance Review: Maite Alberdi’s The Eternal Memory is a Love Story for the Ages

Filmmaker Maite Alberdi seems keen to remind us non-fiction cinema can belong to different genres rather than reinforce some notion that they are a genre unto ...

Sundance Review: In Mamacruz, Religious and Sexual Ecstasy are Two Sides of the Same Coin

Not since Madonna got on her knees in the “Like a Prayer” video in 1989 has anyone been as horny for a saint as the heroine of Mamacruz, a housewife in her 70s...

Sundance Review: Fancy Dance is an Indigenous Family Drama That Examines Life in the Margins

The narrative feature debut of Erica Tremblay traverses much of the same ground as other films set on and around reservations, highlighting poverty, a spirit t...

Guillermo del Toro, Tarsem Singh, Justin Kurzel, Nathan Silver & More Set New Films

With his long-in-development passion project Pinocchio now out in the world, director Guillermo del Toro has set his next stop-motion animation: an adaptation ...

Palm Trees and Power Lines Trailer: Jamie Dack’s Acclaimed Four-Time Indie Spirit Award Nominee Arrives in March

While this year's Sundance Film Festival recently concluded, one of the most acclaimed films out of last year's edition will now be arriving in just under a mo...

Sundance Review: The Eight Mountains is a Frustrating Portrait of Masculinity Captured with Great Beauty

There must have been something in the air at the 2022 Cannes Film Festival, where two of the top prizes went to Belgian films about the impossible standards se...

Posterized February 2023: Consecration, Sharper, Jethica & More

2023 is in full swing with chaos (Cocaine Bear opens February 24) and sequels (Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania opens February 17; Magic Mike's Last D...

Sundance Review: Talk To Me is a Chilling, Franchise-Building Supernatural Thriller

Featuring a great premise from which to build a franchise, YouTube creators Danny and Michael Philippou's directorial debut Talk To Me is a refreshing retread,...

NYC Weekend Watch: Seijun Suzuki, Sara Driver, Claudia Cardinale & More

NYC Weekend Watch is our weekly round-up of repertory offerings. Japan SocietyA series celebrating Seijun Suzuki's centennial begins with imported 35mm prin...

News

Exclusive: Paul Schrader’s Next Films Involve a Pederast Professor and a Wall Street-Set Erotic Thriller

2024 Gotham Awards Nominations Unveiled

Yokohama BJ Blues Makes U.S. Theatrical Premiere on November 11 from Amnesiascope

Trailers

First Trailer for Luca Guadagnino’s Queer Follows Daniel Craig Searching for a High

Ride a Dreamlike Musical Carousel in Exclusive Trailer for Signe Birkova’s Lotus, Partly Shot on a 1920s Camera

Raoul Peck Investigates a Photographer Pioneer in First Trailer for Ernest Cole: Lost and Found

Reviews

AFI Fest Review: Robert Zemeckis’ Here Plays Like the Anti-Boyhood

AFI Fest Review: My Favourite Cake Finds an Autumnal Romance Blooming Under Iranian Authoritarianism

NYFF Review: On Becoming a Guinea Fowl is a Powerfully Enraging, Surreally Comedic Look at Zambian Tradition

Features

Tony Leung, Johnnie To, and Chiara Mastroianni Talk Cinema’s Future as the 2024 Tokyo International Film Festival Begins

New to Streaming: Trap, One False Move, Rap World, Daaaaaalí!, The Remarkable Life of Ibelin & More

NYC Weekend Watch: Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors, Candy Mountain, Chantal Akerman, Azazel Jacobs & More

Interviews

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

“100 Clichés Move Us”: Rumours Directors Guy Maddin, Evan Johnson & Galen Johnson on Finding Humor in a World in Crisis

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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