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Cannes 2022 Adds New Films from Albert Serra, Serge Bozon, Louis Garrel & More

After the initial announcement, the 2022 Cannes Film Festival has added a handful of new titles across its various sections. Most notably, Albert Serra's newes...

U.S. Trailer for Bertrand Mandico’s After Blue (Dirty Paradise) Brings Feverish Ecstasy

After his delirious, vividly strange debut The Wild Boys, Bertrand Mandico is back with After Blue (Dirty Paradise), which premiered at Locarno Film Festival l...

Stanleyville Review: High Concept Dark Comedy Revels in Absurdity

Maria (Susanne Wuest) is jolted awake by a hawk flying straight into the window of her corner office. Only she seems to notice while the rest of her drone-like...

The B-Side – In Conversation with Guy Pearce

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...

Panda! Go Panda! Trailer: Early Isao Takahata & Hayao Miyazaki Animation Gets 50th Anniversary Restoration

Over a decade before they founded Studio Ghibli, Isao Takahata and Hayao Miyazaki teamed on the 1972 feature Panda! Go Panda! with the former as director and t...

Watch Jim Jarmusch’s Music Video for Cat Power’s Pogues Cover A Pair of Brown Eyes

Fans of Alex Cox's Straight to Hell will be delighted to know that Jim Jarmusch has re-entered the universe of the Pogues–tangentially, at least. The Only Love...

Ben Affleck Sets Return to Directing, Reuniting with Matt Damon for Nike & Michael Jordan Drama

It's been six years since Ben Affleck last stepped behind the camera––in the interim giving some career acting highlights in The Way Back, The Last Duel, and D...

Montana Story Trailer: Haley Lu Richardson & Owen Teague Reconnect in Emotional Neo-Western

A well-observed neo-western that is rich with atmosphere, the latest film from Scott McGehee and David Siegel (What Maisie Knew), follows estranged siblings (O...

Cannes Critics Week and ACID Unveil 2022 Lineups

Two more sidebars at this year's Cannes Film Festival have unveiled their lineup. First up, Critics Week (aka La Semaine de la Critique), which brings together...

The Film Stage Show Ep. 470 – Everything Everywhere All at Once (with Rebecca Sun)

Welcome, one and all, to the latest episode of The Film Stage Show! Today, Robyn Bahr and Bill Graham are joined by Rebecca Sun to discuss Daniels' Everything ...

News

Léa Seydoux, Lee Kang-sheng, Margaret Qualley, Steven Yeun, Natalie Portman, Armie Hammer & More Set Next Roles

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

2024 Gotham Awards Nominations Unveiled

Trailers

Exclusive Trailer for Jōhatsu, a Lithuanian Thriller Exploring a Japanese Phenomenon

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

Reviews

Juror #2 Review: Courtroom Thriller Represents the Best from Late Clint Eastwood Era

The Graduates Review: A Melancholic Look at a Community Bonded by Tragedy

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

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

“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

The Making of the Indian Sci-Fi Box-Office Sensation Kalki 2898 AD

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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