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Cannes Review: Pietro Marcello’s Scarlet is a Tender Tribute to the Imagination

In his previous film Martin Eden, and now with Scarlet, Pietro Marcello has found a novel way to depict artistic striving, closely tying it with the concept of...

Lynne Ramsay to Direct Julianne Moore and Sandra Oh in Stone Mattress

In the five years since the Joaquin Phoenix-led You Were Never Really Here, Lynne Ramsay has circled a number of projects but now, at long last, seems to have ...

Cristian Mungiu Returns with First Trailer for Cannes Premiere R.M.N.

The Romanian New Wave has enjoyed quite a substantial few years with Bad Luck Banging, Malmkrog, Întregalde, and The Whistlers. One of its forebearers, Cristia...

First Trailer for Holy Spider, From Border Director Ali Abbasi

Following his one-of-a-kind, Oscar-nominated fantasy drama Border, Iranian-Danish director Ali Abbasi is heading into Cannes competition with his next feature,...

The Film Stage Show Ep. 472 – On the Count of the Three (with Mitchell Beaupre)

Welcome, one and all, to the latest episode of The Film Stage Show! Today, Brian Roan and Bill Graham are joined by Mitchell Beaupre to discuss Jerrod Carmicha...

Olivier Assayas and Alicia Vikander Resurrect Irma Vep In Trailer for HBO Serial

There was plenty doubt, even confusion over news Olivier Assayas would return to arguably his greatest film, Irma Vep, for HBO and A24, who turned their Euphor...

Cane Fire Review: Kauai’s Colonial Legacy Examined Through the Lens of Hollywood

While director Anthony Banua-Simon uses the revelation as a sort of "gotcha" moment to end his documentary Cane Fire, hearing Kauai-native Larry Rivera—an ente...

First Look at John Woo’s Silent Night Starring Joel Kinnaman

As action master John Woo prepares a reimagining of his own film The Killer, he's also wrapped his next feature Silent Night, which marks his return to U.S. fi...

David Cronenberg Discusses Consumed Adaptation and the “Very Conservative” Netflix

When it rains it pours, and after a long drought David Cronenberg is present as ever. It'd be satiating enough were we only days from a Cannes premiere for Cri...

The Mother and the Whore Trailer Heralds 4K Restorations of Jean Eustache

For years—I'm talking years—the films of Jean Eustache, post-New Wave genius and forefather of more than you'd ever realize, were basically impossible to find ...

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

Billy Zane Transforms into Marlon Brando in First Trailer for Waltzing with Brando

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

Reviews

Riga Review: Saulė Bliuvaitė’s Locarno-Winning Toxic Will Worm Its Way Inside You

AFI Fest Review: September 5 is a Competent But Bloodless Thriller

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

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

“Life Is Worth Celebrating”: Tyler Taormina on Christmas Eve in Miller’s Point

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

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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