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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...

Jeff Nichols to Direct Tom Hardy, Jodie Comer & Austin Butler in The Bikeriders

Update: Michael Shannon, Boyd Holbrook, and Damon Herriman have also joined the ensemble, Deadline reports. See the original story below. After a prolific s...

Posterized August 2022: Funny Pages, El Gran Movimiento, Free Chol Soo Lee & More

It's a quiet month for studio blockbusters. Sony has Bullet Train (August 5) and The Invitation (August 26); Universal has Beast (August 19). Not to sp...

NYC Weekend Watch: King Vidor, Warhol, Cold Water, 70mm & More

NYC Weekend Watch is our weekly round-up of repertory offerings. Film at Lincoln Center As a restoration of Three Colors: White begins its run, a massive...

The Banshees of Inisherin Trailer: Martin McDonagh Reunites with Colin Farrell & Brendan Gleeson

After Seven Psychopaths and Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri brought him to America to a divisive reaction, British-Irish filmmaker Martin McDonagh re...

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

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

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

“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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