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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...

Memoir of a Snail Trailer: Mary & Max Director Adam Elliot Returns With First Claymation Feature in 15 Years

Recently featured on our fall movie preview, Memoir of a Snail marks the long-awaited return to feature filmmaking from Adam Elliot, director of 2009's Mary &a...

New to Streaming: Trap, Lee Chang-dong, Kinds of Kindness, Napoleon: Director’s Cut & 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 Film Stage Show Bonus Ep. – Box Office Bonanza (January 14, 2005)

Welcome to a new episode from The Film Stage! It’s not The Film Stage Show. It’s not The B-Side! It’s something else! It’s a Box Office Bonanza from The Film S...

Venice Review: Pablo Larraín’s Sparse But Admirable Maria Paints a Tragic Portrait

After the detour of El Conde, Pablo Larraín returns with a study of opera singer Maria Callas, thus closing out a triptych of films on glamorous women, gilded ...

Martin Scorsese on Marlon Brando’s One-Eyed Jacks: “It Cries Back to the End of the Westerns”

Whatever pedigree ought to be established as the sole film directed by Marlon Brando, One-Eyed Jacks spent so much time in obscure status and degraded states t...

“I Hate Her”: Zia Anger on the Thorny Self-Portrait My First Film

Zia Anger's name has not broken into the mainstream; it's instead been a kind of totem for underground film artistry, to whatever extent that even exists anymo...

News

MUBI’s December 2024 Lineup Includes Dahomey, Bird, The People’s Joker & More

No Other Land Announced as Winner of the 2024 Indie Film Site Network Advocate Award

First Images From Andrew Ahn’s The Wedding Banquet Remake Starring Lily Gladstone, Kelly Marie Tran, Bowen Yang & More

Trailers

DIG! XX Trailer: Ondi Timoner’s Cult Classic Rock Doc Gets Expanded Edition This January

Exclusive Trailer for Ben Petrie’s The Heirloom Introduces Acclaimed Rom-Com Psychodrama

First Trailer for Paolo Sorrentino’s Parthenope Offers Up Romance in Naples

Reviews

The Black Sea Review: A Dynamic Lead Performance Drives Familiar Fish-Out-of-Water Story

Thessaloniki Review: When the Light Breaks Showcases a Dawn-to-Dusk Tragedy with Raw Depth

Wicked: Part I Review: Wizard of Oz Prequel Is Stale as Blockbusters Can Be

Features

New to Streaming: Blitz, The Piano Lesson, Flipside, We Live in Time, Alien: Romulus & More

NYC Weekend Watch: Dirty Work, Shelley Duvall, Robert Frank & More

The Best Movies Now Playing in Theaters

Interviews

Flow Director Gints Zilbalodis on Animating Animals, Allegories, and Cinema vs. Videogames

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

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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