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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...

New to Streaming: Babylon, Skinamarink, Black History Month, Douglas Sirk & 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...

Brandon Cronenberg on Infinity Pool, Dream Logic, and NC-17 vs. R-Rated Cuts

Brandon Cronenberg shows no fear returning to images and themes popularized by his father David. Even the literary influences apparent in his work––Phillip K. ...

12 Films to See in February

With the Sundance Film Festival now wrapped up, offering our first glimpse at the 2023 cinematic offerings, eyes are now on Berlinale, which kicks off later th...

First Look at Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s About Dry Grasses

Update: Image removed at the request of the producers. While it's been five long years since the latest film from Nuri Bilge Ceylan, we did get a recent re-...

Trailer for Fabrice du Welz’s Remastered Debut Calvaire Features the Return of a New French Extremity Staple

Although hailing from Belgium, Fabrice du Welz's debut Calvaire has been considered a staple of New French Extremity, as coined by James Quandt around the turn...

The Civil Dead Review: A Grim Yet Charming Slacker Comedy

For Clay, the man at the center of The Civil Dead, there isn’t much happening in life. Portrayed by director and co-writer Clay Tatum, he’s an unemployed LA ph...

Body Parts Review: A Scattered, Behind-the-Scenes Look at Sex in Film

The mechanics and politics of the filmed sex scene are put under a microscope in Kristy Guevara-Flanagan’s documentary Body Parts. A useful primer for thinking...

Knock at the Cabin Review: Waiting for the End of the Movie

Though adapting Paul G. Tremblay’s The Cabin at the End of the World, M. Night Shyamalan’s newest film takes a different approach. Knock at the Cabin is an exe...

Sundance Review: Fantastic Machine Offers a Sprawling History of the Moving Image with a Too-Concise Lens

The history of film is filled with fascinating symmetries, with Edison’s early kinescopes like Fred Ott’s Sneeze and The Kiss resembling the kinds of stories f...

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

The Graduates Review: A Melancholic Look at a Community Bonded by Tragedy

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

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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