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MoviePass Will Return This Labor Day Weekend

As foretold in a very peculiar but potentially promising presentation late last year, MoviePass is now officially returning. Co-founder/CEO Stacy Spikes, who t...

Jesse Eisenberg to Play a Sasquatch in Zellner Brothers’ Next Film & Direct Kieran Culkin in A Real Pain

Earlier this year saw the premiere of Jesse Eisenberg's directorial debut, When You Finish Saving the World, and while A24 has yet to set a release date for th...

The Territory Director Alex Pritz on Local Conflicts, Narrative Control, and Ethical Choices

When watching documentarian Alex Pritz’s The Territory, the conflict becomes all-consuming. The Uru-eu-wau-wau, less than 200 of them, become the clear heroes....

KVIFF Review: A Little Love Package is an Effervescent, Lightly Intoxicating Vienna Poem

In A Little Love Package, Vienna's institutions, people, buildings, and overlapping epochs make for a stiff drink: a bright, effervescent, lightly intoxicating...

Locarno Review: Lebanese Lockdown Diary Tales of the Purple House is Blandly Nourishing

In Tales of the Purple House, French-Iraqi filmmaker Abbas Fahdel and his wife, Lebanese artist Nour Ballouk, offer a collaborative video diary of the last few...

Beast Review: Idris Elba Finds a Feline Foe in Lean, Likably Earnest Creature Feature

There’s no better form of getting over a dead parent or spouse than combatting a killer animal. At least that’s the thesis of The Shallows, Crawl, and now Beas...

Exclusive: The Film Stage Presents One-Night-Only Stream of Acclaimed Brazilian Drama Private Desert on Filmatique

A highlight of last year's festival circuit, Aly Muritaba's Private Desert is the bracing story of a suspended police officer who searches for his online love,...

New to Streaming: Ken Jacobs, The Legend of Molly Johnson, Spin Me Round, The Princess & 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...

NYC Weekend Watch: Keane, Love Unto Death, Sátántangó & More

NYC Weekend Watch is our weekly round-up of repertory offerings. Film at Lincoln Center As the 4K restoration of Keane opens (read our interview with Lod...

Lodge Kerrigan on Keane, the Magnetism of Damian Lewis, Steven Soderbergh’s Cut, and the Economics of TV vs. Film

Often a re-release is granted to some long-cherished classic or cult sensation. In the case of Lodge Kerrigan’s Keane, which played the festival circuit throug...

News

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

2024 Gotham Awards Nominations Unveiled

Trailers

First Trailer for Luca Guadagnino’s Queer Follows Daniel Craig Searching for a High

Ride a Dreamlike Musical Carousel in Exclusive Trailer for Signe Birkova’s Lotus, Partly Shot on a 1920s Camera

Raoul Peck Investigates a Photographer Pioneer in First Trailer for Ernest Cole: Lost and Found

Reviews

The Graduates Review: A Melancholic Look at a Community Bonded by Tragedy

AFI Fest Review: Robert Zemeckis’ Here Plays Like the Anti-Boyhood

AFI Fest Review: My Favourite Cake Finds an Autumnal Romance Blooming Under Iranian Authoritarianism

Features

Tony Leung, Johnnie To, and Chiara Mastroianni Talk Cinema’s Future as the 2024 Tokyo International Film Festival Begins

New to Streaming: Trap, One False Move, Rap World, Daaaaaalí!, The Remarkable Life of Ibelin & More

NYC Weekend Watch: Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors, Candy Mountain, Chantal Akerman, Azazel Jacobs & 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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