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Bullet Train Review: Brad Pitt’s Charm Can’t Save Self-Indulgent Actioner

For a film filled with piles of dead bodies, generational family trauma, and a general bad-luck vibe, David Leitch’s Bullet Train lacks any sense of authentici...

Noah Baumbach’s White Noise Will Open the 60th New York Film Festival

In what feels like no time at all are we again looking towards the New York Film Festival, which launches on September 30 with some major buzz, drone, hiss, bu...

Intermission Ep. 13 – The Vanishing (with Susannah Gruder)

Welcome to the return of Intermission, a spin-off podcast from The Film Stage Show. Led by yours truly, Michael Snydel, I invite a guest to discuss an arthouse...

Jean-Luc Godard Transforms an Indian Village in Exclusive Trailer for Amartya Bhattacharyya’s Adieu Godard

It's accepted wisdom that the films of Jean-Luc Godard have transformed the very craft of cinema as we know it today, and filmmakers are continuing to find way...

Bodies Bodies Bodies Review: A Self-Aware Parody of Vapid Lives

Nine years into its existence, A24—the once-indie production and distribution label behind modern greats like Under the Skin (2013), Moonlight (2016), and Uncu...

GAIFF Review: Cyril Schäublin’s Unrest is a Quiet Film of Loud Ideas

The best word to describe Unrest is "clever." It isn't on the level of the artisans and thinkers it lovingly portrays—all the graphers (geo, carto, photo) and ...

Fantasia Review: Inu-oh Presents an Anachronistic Rock Opera to Breathe New Life into Ancient History

Director Masaaki Yuasa and screenwriter Akiko Nogi's adaptation of Hideo Furukawa's novel The Tale of the Heike: The Inu-oh Chapters finishes with a couple scr...

Fantasia Review: Missing is a Crime-Thriller That Flips the Father-Daughter Dynamic

Santoshi Harada (Jirô Satô) has a plan. It concerns a three-million-yen reward for helping capture the infamous serial killer known as "No-Name" (Hiroya Shimiz...

Fantasia Review: Country Gold Captures a Generational Clash with Absurdist Segues

The cost of fame sits in the living room wondering aloud whether dad will be home for Christmas. Why these two young boys' voices have been deepened to sound l...

Martin Scorsese and Leonardo DiCaprio to Reunite Again for The Wager

Only a few days after learning the highly anticipated Killers of the Flower Moon will likely not see a release this year, Martin Scorsese and Leonardo DiCaprio...

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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