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Halloween Ends Review: David Gordon Green’s Finale is a Condescending Misfire

Note: The following review contains spoilers for Halloween Ends. This time last year, while doing press for his rather dreadful Halloween Kills, director Da...

Guy Maddin on Restoring Tales From the Gimli Hospital, Being Rejected by TIFF, and Luis Buñuel

Canada’s weirdest filmmaker, Guy Maddin has crafted a body of work since the 1980s that first comes off as classical-cinema homage but, looked at deeper, is ra...

All the Beauty and the Bloodshed Trailer: Laura Poitras and Nan Goldin Combat American Evil

If it quickly emerged as a consensus-favorite doc of 2022, thank Laura Poitras: sometimes it takes a real filmmaker to rejuvenate collective interest. All the ...

The B-Side – Brian De Palma (with Chadd Harbold)

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

Claire Denis on Shooting Sex, Society’s Morals, and John C. Reilly’s Cameo in Stars at Noon

Claire Denis has had a busy year. Her two films, Both Sides of the Blade and Stars at Noon, premiered at Berlinale and Cannes, respectively. Blade earned the S...

Chinonye Chukwu on Joy as Resistance, Therapy on Set, and the Vibrant Language of Till

With Clemency, Chinonye Chukwu was the first Black woman to win the U.S. Dramatic Grand Jury Prize at Sundance. Three years later she returns with another stor...

Safdies & Adam Sandler Confirmed to Reteam on New Film Shooting This Winter

Update: The film will be produced by Netflix, Deadline reports, and will likely be "set in the world of high-end card collecting." With Good Time being a ca...

Alice Diop on Saint Omer, Motherhood, and Psychodramatic Filmmaking

Alice Diop was never interested in the outcome. In 2016, the filmmaker attended the trial of Senegalese mother Fabienne Kabou, who walked to the beach in Berck...

BFI London Review: My Father’s Dragon Marks Cartoon Saloon’s First Disappointment

The films of Cartoon Saloon have an inherently folkloric quality, often feeling like tales that have been passed down through centuries—even if they are boldly...

Meet Me in the Bathroom Trailer Revisits the Birth of The Strokes, LCD Soundsystem, Yeah Yeah Yeahs & More

The birth of The Strokes, LCD Soundsystem, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Interpol, The Moldy Peaches, The Rapture, TV On The Radio, Liars, and more bands integral to the 2...

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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