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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...

Vicky Krieps on the Scientific Expedition of Acting, Imagined Worlds, and Hold Me Tight

There are few actors working today with the level of emotional intuitiveness of Vicky Krieps. Whenever she emerges onto a screen you innately feel exactly the ...

News

Bertand Bonello, Takashi Miike, Nikyatu Jusu, and More Plan Next Features

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

Trailers

The End Trailer: Tilda Swinton, Michael Shannon, and George MacKay Ring in the Apocalypse

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

Reviews

AFI Fest Review: September 5 is a Competent But Bloodless Thriller

AFI Review: Vermiglio Paints a Lyrical Portrait of Desires Constrained by Catholicism

Paddington in Peru Review: Threequel Fails to Climb to Franchise Heights

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

Kani Kusruti on All We Imagine as Light, Girls Will Be Girls, and Indian Moviegoing Culture

“Less Money, More Liberty”: Paulo Branco on a Cinematic Life with David Cronenberg, Manoel De Oliveira, and Raúl Ruiz

“Nobody Ever Gave Me Anything”: Alan Rudolph on Robert Altman, Bruce Willis, Kurt Vonnegut, and Resurrecting Breakfast of Champions

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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