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The Film Stage Show Ep. 480 – Prey (with DezBaa’)

Welcome, one and all, to the latest episode of The Film Stage Show! Today, Brian Roan, Bill Graham, and Robyn Bahr are joined by DezBaa' to discuss Dan Trachte...

Emergency Declaration Review: Song Kang-ho Leads a Suspenseful Aviation Thriller

As described at the start of Jae-rim Han's disaster film in the sky, everything is supposed to stop the moment a pilot initiates an Emergency Declaration. It a...

Exclusive Trailer for Hukkle Resurrects a Modern Classic

There's lesser-seen and then there's Hukkle. György Pálfi's bleakly amusing feature accrued various levels of cachet among the cinephile scene(s) in the 20 yea...

Recommended New Books on Filmmaking: Michael Mann Returns to Heat, Long Live Cronenberg, Exploring Fire Walk With Me & More

Summer is a time for light reading. Well, in theory. If you are a hardcore film lover it’s also a time for deep dives into complicated classics like Twin Peaks...

Locarno Review: Human Flowers of Flesh is an Entrancing Journey Through Film and Sea

Early into Helena Wittmann’s 2017 feature debut, Drift, a character recounts a Papua New Guinean tale of the world’s creation. Back when the planet was all wat...

Locarno Review: Alexander Sokurov’s Fairytale Imagines a Surreal, Staid Purgatorial Journey

All through Fairytale (aka Skazka), characters recite the opening of the Divine Comedy and Dante’s preamble to his plunge into hell. But the black-and-white wo...

U.S. Trailer for Kirill Serebrennikov’s Petrov’s Flu Takes Hallucinatory Trip Through Post-Soviet Russia

Russian director Kirill Serebrennikov has been invited to back-to-back Cannes for his latest work, premiering Petrov's Flu last year and Tchaikovsky's Wife thi...

Claydream Review: A Tale of Animation History, Art, and Commerce

There's intent in a brief snippet from an archival interview with Travis Knight. He's asked about getting the animation bug at Laika, of which he's co-owner wi...

New to Streaming: Prey, Resurrection, Licorice Pizza, Blue Island & 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...

Laura Poitras’ All the Beauty and the Bloodshed Selected as Centerpiece of 60th New York Film Festival

In a rare occurrence, a documentary feature has been deemed the Centerpiece selection at the New York Film Festival, with Laura Poitras’s All the Beauty and th...

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 Review: Vermiglio Paints a Lyrical Portrait of Desires Constrained by Catholicism

Paddington in Peru Review: Threequel Fails to Climb to Franchise Heights

Juror #2 Review: Courtroom Thriller Represents the Best from Clint Eastwood’s Late Era

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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