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Sundance 2023 Winners Include A Thousand and One, Going to Mars, Scrapper & The Eternal Memory

While our Sundance Film Festival 2023 coverage continues to roll in, the respective juries at Park City have doled out their winners, with Grand Jury Prizes aw...

NYC Weekend Watch: Preston Sturges, Todd Solondz, Douglas Sirk & More

NYC Weekend Watch is our weekly round-up of repertory offerings. Film ForumA Preston Sturges retrospective continues, with The Palm Beach Story, T...

Sundance Review: Scrapper is a Remarkably Assured Debut

It feels serendipitous that Scrapper, a somber slice-of-life British melodrama, screened at the Sundance Film Festival just days after hysterical reporting on ...

Sundance Review: The Accidental Getaway Driver is a Kidnapping Thriller That Works Best in Low Gear

The premise is simple; it promises a comical, stranger-than-fiction thrill-ride. Late at night, an elderly Vietnamese cab driver begrudgingly agrees to a routi...

Sundance Review: Against the Tide Examines Shifting Ideals in a Bombay Fishing Community

At first glance, the two friends in Against the Tide couldn’t be more different. Both Koli fishermen, their similarities seem to stop at the generality of thei...

The B-Side – Michelle Pfeiffer (with Veronica Fitzpatrick)

Welcome to The B-Side, from The Film Stage. Here we talk about movie stars! Not the movies that made them famous or kept them famous, but the ones they made in...

New to Streaming: TÁR, Happening, M3GAN, When You Finish Saving the World & 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 Criterion Channel Announce February Lineup: Black History, Derek Jarman, Douglas Sirk, Yo La Tengo & More

February, marking both Black History Month and Valentine's Day, is the kind of stretch from which a programmer can mine plenty. Accordingly the Criterion Chann...

Sundance Review: All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt is a Profoundly Stunning, Impressionistic Voyage of Time

Raven Jackson’s directorial debut All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt is a distillation of cinema to its purest form, a stunning patchwork of experience and memory. D...

Sundance Review: Passages is a Radiantly Sexual Exploration of the Thorniness of Love

Taking the Scorsese wisdom of “more than 90% of directing a picture is the right casting” to heart, Ira Sachs’ radiantly sexual three-hander Passages couldn’t ...

News

Léa Seydoux, Lee Kang-sheng, Margaret Qualley, Steven Yeun, Natalie Portman, Armie Hammer & More Set Next Roles

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

2024 Gotham Awards Nominations Unveiled

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

“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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