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Top Gun: Maverick Leads 2022 National Board of Review Winners

The National Board of Review have announced their 2022 winners and, in a rare occurrence, the year's top-grossing film (at least until James Cameron comes alon...

Alexander Payne and Reese Witherspoon to Reunite for Election Sequel Tracy Flick Can’t Win

Serving as a breakout for Alexander Payne following his debut Citizen Ruth, 1999's Election followed Reese Witherspoon's Tracy Flick as a high school student r...

The Best Directorial Debuts of 2022

Though we aim to discuss a wide breadth of films each year, few things give us more pleasure than the arrival of bold, new voices. It's why we venture to festi...

Infinity Pool Trailer: Alexander Skarsgård & Mia Goth Lead Brandon Cronenberg’s Sundance-Bound Horror Feature

The Cronenberg family has had quite a year. As David Cronenberg finally returned to feature filmmaking with the stellar Crimes of the Future, his daughter Cait...

Alice, Darling Trailer: Anna Kendrick Hits a Career High in TIFF Hit

One of the highlights of TIFF this past fall was Mary Nighy's thriller Alice, Darling, which finds Anna Kendrick giving one of the best performances of his car...

The B-Side – Michelle Yeoh (with Jeff Zhang)

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...

Sundance Film Festival Unveils 2023 Lineup

Setting the stage for the year in cinema, the 2023 Sundance Film Festival will take place January 19-29, both in person in Utah as well as virtual viewings kic...

Iranian Films Made by Women and Non-Binary Filmmakers Are Streaming for Free for One Month

With the horrific oppression against women, the LGBTIQ+ community, and minorities being carried out by Iran's regime, a platform has launched to shed insight i...

Mia Hansen-Løve on the Quest to Understand Life Through Filmmaking

Filmmakers are not their films, but Mia Hansen-Løve continues drawing the assumption. Her eighth feature, One Fine Morning, extends a series of semi-autobiogra...

A Masterpiece Returns in Exclusive Trailer for 4K Restoration of Bernardo Bertolucci’s The Conformist

In a decade of numerous masterpieces, one of the towering cinematic feats of the 1970s was Bernardo Bertolucci's Alberto Moravia adaptation The Conformist. Wit...

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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