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Tribeca Review: Subject Turns its Lens Inwards to Interrogate Documentary Ethics

The relationship between documentary subject and documentarian has been fraught with conflict since the genre’s evolution beyond “actualities” and into a narra...

The Film Stage Show Interview – The Drone Team Behind Michael Bay’s Ambulance

Welcome, one and all, to a special episode of The Film Stage Show. We welcome special guest host Conor O'Donnell (of our podcast The B-Side) to chat with the d...

Beba Review: An Intimate, Introspective Exploration of a Filmmaker’s Life and Ancestry

Writer-director-subject Rebeca Huntt worries aloud whether her family will ever speak to her again after watching her feature debut Beba. It’s a real concern: ...

Pablo Larraín Begins Shooting Next Film El Conde, Arriving on Netflix in 2023

Continuing his trend of bouncing back and forth between English-language projects and Chilean features, Pablo Larraín is following Spencer with El Conde, backe...

New to Streaming: Crimes of the Future, Flux Gourmet, Happening, Watcher & 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...

Tribeca Review: Dreaming Walls: Inside the Chelsea Hotel Solemnly Binds the Past and Present

The Chelsea Hotel has a storied history of artistry, creativity, and death. Coming to fame as a place for bohemians to find cheap rent, it grew in notoriety wi...

Tribeca Review: Don’t Make Me Go is a Down-the-Middle Road Trip Movie

Don’t Make Me Go matches John Cho with Mia Isaac for a father-daughter road trip across the states. From director Hannah Marks and screenwriter Vera Herbert, t...

NYC Weekend Watch: Lost Highway, Marie Antoinette, Discreet Charm & More

NYC Weekend Watch is our weekly round-up of repertory offerings. Film at Lincoln Center The 4K Lost Highway restoration begins its run as a 20-film ...

Lena Dunham Returns with First Red Band Trailer for Sharp Stick

Marking her first feature since Tiny Furniture (now more than a decade old), Lena Dunham's Sharp Stick debuted at Sundance to an expectedly divisive response. ...

Peter Strickland on Flux Gourmet, Bowel Issues, Social Anxiety, Taboo Breaking, and Sonic Atmosphere

Peter Strickland wants to break taboos. The man behind films about giallo sound technicians (Berberian Sound Studio), BDSM-practicing lepidopterists (The Duke ...

News

Exclusive: Paul Schrader’s Next Films Involve a Pederast Professor and a Wall Street-Set Erotic Thriller

2024 Gotham Awards Nominations Unveiled

Yokohama BJ Blues Makes U.S. Theatrical Premiere on November 11 from Amnesiascope

Trailers

First Trailer for Luca Guadagnino’s Queer Follows Daniel Craig Searching for a High

Ride a Dreamlike Musical Carousel in Exclusive Trailer for Signe Birkova’s Lotus, Partly Shot on a 1920s Camera

Raoul Peck Investigates a Photographer Pioneer in First Trailer for Ernest Cole: Lost and Found

Reviews

AFI Fest Review: Robert Zemeckis’ Here Plays Like the Anti-Boyhood

AFI Fest Review: My Favourite Cake Finds an Autumnal Romance Blooming Under Iranian Authoritarianism

NYFF Review: On Becoming a Guinea Fowl is a Powerfully Enraging, Surreally Comedic Look at Zambian Tradition

Features

Tony Leung, Johnnie To, and Chiara Mastroianni Talk Cinema’s Future as the 2024 Tokyo International Film Festival Begins

New to Streaming: Trap, One False Move, Rap World, Daaaaaalí!, The Remarkable Life of Ibelin & More

NYC Weekend Watch: Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors, Candy Mountain, Chantal Akerman, Azazel Jacobs & More

Interviews

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

“100 Clichés Move Us”: Rumours Directors Guy Maddin, Evan Johnson & Galen Johnson on Finding Humor in a World in Crisis

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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