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Francis Ford Coppola Plans Two New Films, Including Long-Gestating Distant Vision

Contra what feels like all known odds, Francis Ford Coppola's Megalopolis––40 years after he completed an initial draft––opens in one month and one day. Thus a...

Matt and Mara Trailer: Deragh Campbell and Matt Johnson Lead Berlinale Standout

A standout at the 2024 Berlinale Film Festival, Canadian director Kazik Radwanski's Matt and Mara reunited him with his Anne at 13,000 ft star Deragh Campbell,...

C. Mason Wells on the Complex Creation of Between the Temples

Those who've followed Nathan Silver and Chris "C. Mason" Wells' careers might find themselves bewildered in recent months. Compelling enough that their latest ...

NYC Weekend Watch: The Spook Who Sat By the Door, Greed, The Holy Girl, Vertigo on 70mm & More

NYC Weekend Watch is our weekly round-up of repertory offerings. BAMThe controversial, remarkable The Spook Who Sat By the Door plays in a new restoration. ...

New to Streaming: Evil Does Not Exist, Longlegs, Green Border, Hell Hole & 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...

A Crisis of Faith: Between the Temples Director Nathan Silver on Jason Schwartzman’s Inspiration and Shooting on 16mm

Nathan Silver’s Between the Temples takes a stock story––a lonely middle-aged man finds unexpected love––and places it in an unfamiliar context. For ...

First Trailer for Matthew Rankin’s Cannes Standout Universal Language

Following his Guy Maddin-influenced debut The Twentieth Century, Matthew Rankin has returned five years later with his follow-up. Universal Language, which pre...

NYFF62 Adds New Restorations of Films by Robert Bresson, Chantal Akerman, Ousmane Sembène, Clive Barker & More

Following their intial announcements, the 62nd New York Film Festival has now unveiled its final film section: Revivals, featuring significant works from renow...

Locarno Review: By the Stream Sees Hong Sangsoo Excelling in a More Narrative-Driven Mode

The death of the author is the birth of the reader, as we know from post-structuralist thought; then again, there are Hong Sangsoo’s public remarks. A charming...

Blink Twice Review: Zoë Kravitz’s Derivative Debut Can’t Escape the Shadow of its Influences

Over a close-up of a turtle, ominous sound design builds at such a deep frequency that the walls of a press-screening room in Beverly Hills began rattling. Onc...

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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