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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...

Locarno Review: It Is Night in America is a Rebellious Paean to Animals and Images on the Brink of Extinction

The few people bobbing up in Ana Vaz’s It Is Night in America are anonymous ciphers, their faces scarcely (if at all) visible, protruding limbs or silhouettes ...

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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