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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...

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 ...

News

Bertand Bonello, Takashi Miike, Nikyatu Jusu, and More Plan Next Features

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

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 Fest Review: September 5 is a Competent But Bloodless Thriller

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

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

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

Kani Kusruti on All We Imagine as Light, Girls Will Be Girls, and Indian Moviegoing Culture

“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

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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