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Owen Kline on Funny Pages, Favorite Comics, and the Tragic Lives of Cartoonists

Rather than a dark comedy, Owen Kline’s directorial debut Funny Pages is perhaps more akin to slowly unfolding tragedy with a number of gut-busting gags. The s...

NYC Weekend Watch: Three Colors: Red, High and Low, Bitter Moon & More

NYC Weekend Watch is our weekly round-up of repertory offerings. Film at Lincoln Center The Three Colors: Red restoration debuts as Three Colors: Blue an...

White Noise Teaser: Adam Driver & Greta Gerwig’s World is Crumbling in Noah Baumbach’s Don DeLillo Adaptation

The first feature to open both the Venice and New York Film Festival, Noah Baumbach's adaptation of the Don DeLillo masterwork White Noise arrives with much an...

Cate Blanchett is a Musical Force in the New Trailer for Todd Field’s TÁR

Following 2001's In the Bedroom and 2006's Little Children, writer-director Todd Field will finally return with the long-awaited TÁR, a drama set in the world ...

Shia LaBeouf is Saintly in First Trailer & Clip for Abel Ferrara’s Padre Pio

Continuing his prolific, run-and-gun style of filmmaking, we reported about a year ago that Abel Ferrara was following his pandemic thriller Zeros and Ones wit...

Athena Trailer: Romain Gavras’ Venice-Bound Drama Finds Siblings at War

While making his name with his striking music videos for the likes of M.I.A., Jay-Z & Kanye West, Jamie xx, and more, French director Romain Gavras has als...

Olivia Colman Believes in the Power of Cinema in First Teaser for Sam Mendes’ Empire of Light

Following up his World War I epic 1917, director Sam Mendes is jumping about 70 years in the future for Empire of Light, a 1980s-set tale about the power of ci...

Goodnight Mommy Trailer: Naomi Watts Stars in Matt Sobel’s Remake of the Austrian Horror

Naomi Watts certainly has a predilection for leading English-language remakes of Austrian psychological horror hits. After starring in Michael Haneke's remake ...

Spice Up Your Summer with Exclusive U.S. Trailer for Erotic Brazilian Drama The Book of Delights

If one is looking for a bit of erotic romance to spice up your cinematic offerings as we approach the tail end of summer, look no further than Marcela Lordy’s ...

Mona Lisa and the Blood Moon Trailer: Ana Lily Amirpour’s Thriller Arrives This September

As we gear up for another Venice Film Festival, a project premiering at last year's edition will finally get a release next month. A Girl Walks Home Alone At N...

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

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

“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

Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat Director Johan Grimonprez on a Jazz-Fueled, Kaleidoscopic Vision of Displaced Blackness

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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