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TIFF Review: Godland is Old-Fashioned, Muscular Moviemaking

Featuring onscreen text explaining how the film was inspired by left-behind photos taken by a Danish priest while visiting Iceland in the late 1800s (as oppose...

TIFF Review: The Inspection is a Work of Emotional Maturity

Positioned as a work of autobiography from first-time director Elegance Bratton, The Inspection is a flawed, if highly compelling promise of a new talented dra...

The B-Side – 100th Episode Celebration

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...

Venice Review: Andrew Dominik’s Blonde is a Blunt, Sometimes Dazzling Deconstruction of Marilyn Monroe’s Life

How much dramatic license is excessive? Do artists have a responsibility to create positive representations around public figures, especially if they’re belove...

Venice Review: Goliath is a Compelling Yet Unsurprising Biblically Inspired Drama

If a local village warlord discovers he's in a movie titled Goliath, he better watch his back. It doesn't matter what his origin story is—and Poshaev (Daniyar ...

Hold Me Tight Review: Mathieu Amalric’s Restless Portrait of a Woman Grieving

The narrative action of Mathieu Amalric’s latest directorial feature, Hold Me Tight, adapted from a play which was never staged, takes place in a kind of suspe...

Diego Calva, Margot Robbie & Brad Pitt Lead a Life of Excess in First Images from Damien Chazelle’s Babylon

Despite the misstep that was his ersatz musical La La Land, Damien Chazelle showed quite a bit of promise with Whiplash and First Man, qualities that hopefully...

New to Streaming: Murina, The Cathedral, Elaine May, Beast, Venice 2022 Shorts & 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...

Venice Review: Dogborn is a Suspenseful Examination of the Complexity of Victimhood

The twins (Silvana Imam's Sister and Philip Oros' Brother) have nothing since their mother passed away. No house. No jobs. No money. Brother doesn't even have ...

NYC Weekend Watch: Remember My Name, Girl 6, Miloš Forman & More

NYC Weekend Watch is our weekly round-up of repertory offerings. Roxy Cinema The series “Woman as Witch” offers 35mm prints of von Sternberg's Disho...

News

Metrograph Launches Print Publication with Inaugural Issue Featuring Ryusuke Hamaguchi, Clint Eastwood, Ari Aster & More

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

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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