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The B-Side – Drew Barrymore (with Mitchell Beaupre & Marya E. Gates)

Welcome to The B-Side, from The Film Stage. Here we talk about movie stars! Not the movies that made them famous or kept them famous, but the ones they made in...

The Forgiven Review: A Strained Morality Play By and for the Bourgeois

At a time when western cinema is in its most self-consciously liberal mode ever, it’s hard not to have mixed feelings about John Michael McDonagh's The Forgive...

Visions du Réel Review: Gregoris Rentis’ Dogwatch is a Surreal Account of Mercenaries in Limbo

In the world of Gregoris Rentis’ Dogwatch, pirates are the new Godot. The greek filmmaker's feature documentary debut is all about waiting: waiting to leave, t...

Visions du Réel Review: Simon Brückner’s A German Party Offers a Chilling Look at The Country’s Far-Right Faction

If the title of Simon Brückner’s new documentary conjures images of Bavarian beer halls or seedy nights at Kit Kat, don’t get your hopes up. There is an ample ...

MUBI Unveils July 2022 Lineup

It's another eclectic month for MUBI releases as they've announced their July 2022 slate. When it comes to new releases, highlights include Albert Birney and K...

Resurrection Trailer: Rebecca Hall’s Life is Upended by Tim Roth in Chilling Thriller

One of the most unsettling viewing experiences thus far this year is Andrew Semans' psychological thriller Resurrection. Led by Rebecca Hall, once again provin...

Pedro Almodóvar to Direct Ethan Hawke and Pedro Pascal in Saint Laurent-Backed Western

If not slowed down on typical duties, as evidenced by last year's much-loved Parallel Mothers, Pedro Almodóvar's recently expanded the scope of his projects. H...

Non-Fiction: Olivier Assayas Discusses the Professional and Private Dimensions of Irma Vep

It's been this summer's great pleasure watching Irma Vep. Maybe because the two years we've known about it have been marked by trepidation-tinged curiosity: Ol...

The Long Night Review: Supernatural Demon Cult Brings Terror in Arduous Horror Feature

Grace Covington (Scout Taylor-Compton) wants nothing more than to find her birth parents. We're told her former foster child has been looking for quite some ti...

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...

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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