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James Cameron Announces 4K HDR Theatrical Re-Release of Avatar with New Trailer

If you conceived a child on the opening night of James Cameron's Avatar they would nearly be a teenager by the time Avatar: The Way of Water opens this Decembe...

NYFF60 Adds New Restorations of Films by Claire Denis, Pedro Costa, Edward Yang, Jean Eustache & More

Following Main Slate, Spotlight, and Currents, the 60th New York Film Festival have now unveiled its final film-focused section with Revivals. Featuring brand-...

The Inspection Trailer: A Gay Black Man Navigates Military Life in Elegance Bratton’s TIFF & NYFF Selection

Quickly emerging as one of the most-anticipated fall festival premieres, Elegance Bratton's narrative debut The Inspection has locked in coveted spots at both ...

Aubrey Plaza Joins Francis Ford Coppola’s Megalopolis, Confirmed to Shoot this Fall

Update: Megalopolis has expanded by two Coppolas, the cast adding Talia Shire and Jason Schwartzman, while (per THR) Shia LaBeouf continues his (contentious) c...

Out of the Blue Review: Neil LaBute’s Noir is a Silly Exercise in Delayed Gratification

A new cinematic drinking game has arrived. It's a doozy, too, when taking a shot every time writer-director Neil LaBute uses an intertitle demarking time in Ou...

Reality is Altered in First Teaser for Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead’s Something in the Dirt

With their DYI approach to filmmaking, Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead's genre-tinged delights provided a grounded approach to the otherworldly. This is certa...

The Criterion Channel Reveal September Lineup: James Wong Howe, Sambizanga, Romy Schneider, Ang Lee & More

Cinematography retrospectives are the way to go—more than a thorough display of talent, it exposes the vast expanse a DP will travel, like an education in form...

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....

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

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

New to Streaming: Catherine Breillat, The Substance, Last Things, The Apprentice, and More

NYC Weekend Watch: “Silent” Movies, Godzilla & More

17 Films to See in November

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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