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Only the River Flows Review: A Small Town Neo-Noir that Balances Empathy and Melancholy

Wei Shujun's detective noir Only the River Flows (based on a story of the same name by Chinese author Yu Hua) is set in a small town along a river in China's J...

NYC Weekend Watch: Mexican Popular Cinema, Jean-Pierre Melville, Playtime on 70mm, Bresson & More

NYC Weekend Watch is our weekly round-up of repertory offerings. Film at Lincoln CenterA retrospective of Mexican popular cinema from the 1940s to the 1960s...

New To Streaming: La Práctica, Kill, Starve Acre, Nothing Compares & 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...

Gentle Creatures: Robert Bresson and Mani Kaul Screens at BAM on August 5

It's my distinct pleasure to announce Gentle Creatures: Robert Bresson and Mani Kaul, a Dostoevsky double-header comprising adaptations of the short story "A G...

His Three Daughters Trailer: Carrie Coon, Elizabeth Olsen & Natasha Lyonne Reconnect in Emotional Drama

One of the best films I saw at TIFF last year is finally getting a release nearly a year after its premiere. Netflix picked up Azazel Jacob's deeply moving dra...

Steve McQueen’s Blitz Will Close the 62nd New York Film Festival

As the fall festival season continues to take shape, we now know when one of our most-anticipated films will arrive in North America. Film at Lincoln Center an...

The B-Side – Kevin Costner: Part II (with Chadd Harbold)

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 that they ma...

Watch an Exclusive Trailer for Metrograph’s Shinji Sômai Series, Starting August 2

A certain type of cinephile weeb (hello) esteems maybe no post-New Wave Japanese director more highly than Shinji Sômai, but it’s the nature of such fandom tha...

First Images from Jeremy Saulnier’s Rebel Ridge, Coming to Netflix in September

After a handful of delays, Jeremy Saulnier's Hold the Dark follow-up Rebel Ridge finally has a release date, and it's much sooner than expected. Set to arrive ...

NYAFF Review: Park Beom-su’s Victory Gives a Winning Showcase to Lee Hye-ri

A mash-up of cheerleading and soccer tropes, Victory is like a shiny, bright beach toy that breaks the first time you use it. The opening-night presentation at...

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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