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Abderrahmane Sissako Will Begin Shooting The Perfumed Hill This Month

At long last, after years of development, Abderrahmane Sissako is set to embark on his first feature since 2014's Timbuktu. The Mauritanian-born Malian directo...

Venice Review: All the Beauty and the Bloodshed is an Empowering Chronicle of Activism

More than her urgently and perceptively topical subject matter, American documentarian Laura Poitras has a habit, and penchant, not solely for making work abou...

First Look at Steven Spielberg’s The Fabelmans Arrives, Along with More Plot Details

Although relatively shrouded in secrecy since its production last year, with a premiere just a few days away, we're now getting a few more details on Steven Sp...

Venice Review: Walter Hill’s Dead for a Dollar is a Sincere, Modest Western

What room is left for an honest gunslinger in a world where their tropes are repackaged ad infinitum? Have meticulous imitators like Red Dead Redemption actual...

Venice Review: Kôji Fukada Excels with Knotty, Engrossing Love Life

Love Life is one of those films that really wears its screenplay. The plot follows a mother's attempts to come to terms with the death of a child, but it's mor...

10 Must-See Short Films at TIFF 2022

The Toronto International Film Festival, like most other festivals this year, returns with a post-pandemic mindset: a primarily in-person event with an overall...

Armageddon Time Trailer: James Gray Returns Home in 1980s-Set NYC Tale

After searching for treasure in the Amazon and venturing to the far reaches of the galaxy, James Gray is returning home. Armageddon Time finds the director tel...

The B-Side Returns with a Super-Sized Teaser and Giveaway

Update: Listen to the 100th episode here or below! Summer may have come and gone, but The B-Side returns this Friday to celebrate the 100th Episode! ...

Venice Review: Don’t Worry Darling is the Movie Version of a Fake Tan

Where better to set a paradisal experimental housing development than Palm Springs? The sun is always shining and the empty desert expands as far as the eye ca...

Elaine May’s The Heartbreak Kid Has Never Looked Better

If you’ve had any desire to see one of the greatest films ever made in its proper form, you’re out of luck. Unless you’ve been able to catch one of its rare 35...

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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