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Venice Review: Walter Salles’ I’m Still Here Shows a Blissful Family Fractured Under Brazilian Dictatorship

The Motorcycle Diaries director Walter Salles developed I’m Still Here for seven years before it premiered as part of Venice's Main Competition this year. That...

11 Must-See Short Films at TIFF 2024

With the Toronto International Film Festival starting, there’s plenty to look forward to on the feature front. There’s also much room for discovery among Short...

Venice Review: No Sleep Till Takes an Existential Look Inside Florida’s Hurricane Season

A hurricane is coming and Atlantic Beach, Florida is directly in its path. The tourists have already left. Most residents remain. Why? Because this is hurrican...

Venice Review: Wolfs Makes Little of a Reunion for George Clooney and Brad Pitt

It’s been nine years since Jon Watts made a feature film that wasn’t about Spider-Man––long enough that for the past three years his MCU entries have outnumber...

Venice Review: Brady Corbet’s The Brutalist is an Ecstatic Reminder of What Cinema Does Best

When The Childhood of a Leader premiered at the 2015 Venice Film Festival, you had to wonder where Brady Corbet could possibly go next. There was just somethin...

Venice Review: Cloud Finds Kiyoshi Kurosawa in Unstoppable Shape

Kiyoshi Kurosawa is having quite the year. Chime, a mid-length chiller, was a standout at the Berlinale. A French-language remake of his own Serpent’s Path wil...

Nicolas Winding Refn to Shoot New Feature In Japan

Nicolas Winding Refn's produced so much material these last ten years––Copenhagen Cowboy's five hours are slim compared with Too Old to Die Young, which I susp...

Venice Review: Halina Reijn’s Babygirl Marks a New Era of the Erotic Movie

Boosted by Locarno-awarded debut Instinct, Dutch actor-director Halina Reijn fit nicely in the A24 canon with her satirical thriller Bodies Bodies Bodies. Yet ...

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...

News

Tilda Swinton Says The Room Next Door May Be Her Last Film as New Trailer Arrives

Martin Scorsese Praises I Saw the TV Glow, Reveals Plans for Next Films

First Look at Lynne Ramsay’s Die, My Love Featuring Jennifer Lawrence and Robert Pattinson

Trailers

Pamela Anderson is The Last Showgirl in First Trailer for Gia Coppola’s Drama

Exclusive U.S. Trailer for Endless Summer Syndrome Unveils Provocative French Drama

Beatles ’64 Trailer: Martin Scorsese Captures the Band’s First Visit to America

Reviews

Allen Sunshine Review: A Tranquil Debut Feature with a World of Feeling

Gladiator II Review: Ridley Scott’s Sequel Bests Predecessor By Going Dumb

Riga Review: Dreamy Stereoscopic 3D Folk Tale Twittering Soul is One of a Kind

Features

New to Streaming: Megalopolis, Rumours, Look Into My Eyes, An Almost Christmas Story, and More

The Best Movies Now Playing in Theaters

The Film Stage’s 2024 Holiday Gift Guide

Interviews

Payal Kapadia on All We Imagine as Light, Impermanence, Magical Realism, and Trilogy Plans

Barry Keoghan on Young Fatherhood, Loving La La Land, and the Movement of Andrea Arnold’s Bird

NYC Weekend Watch: Ken Kelsch, Il Grido, Flesh for Frankenstein 3D & More

Podcasts

The B-Side – Gwyneth Paltrow (with Cory Everett)

The B-Side – Vincent Price (with Gavin Mevius)

The B-Side – Tim Burton (with Maria Lewis)

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