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Stop Making Sense 4K Restoration Trailer: Jonathan Demme’s Concert Masterpiece Returns to Theaters Nationwide Next Month

While David Byrne lost his second Oscar to the powerhouse that was RRR, one imagines he’s in good spirits being part of a film that swept the ceremony. Fitting...

Recommended New Books on Filmmaking: The Legacy of The Exorcist and William Friedkin, Burning Down Hollywood, Michael Mann, Asteroid City & More

Yes, you still have time to get some reading done before the (ugh) end of summer. To help you get started, our latest roundup of noteworthy new books connected...

The Eternal Memory Team on Melancholic Romance and Melding Personal and Political History

It had been a while since I’d seen a film as sweepingly romantic as Maite Alberdi’s The Eternal Memory, a documentary that focuses on the lives of Augusto Góng...

Locarno Review: David Krumholtz Rounds Off a Big Year in Deadbeat Comedy Lousy Carter

What a year it's been for David Krumholtz. In 2023, the actor has added a Tony-winning play (Tom Stoppard’s Leopoldstadt) and a box-office sensation (you know ...

Locarno Review: Family Portrait is an Audacious Debut Excavating Subterranean Familial Tensions

Texas, late summer, a family in the dozen: with only a few simple building blocks, artist-filmmaker Lucy Kerr rearranges domesticity into eeriness in her featu...

The Criterion Collection’s November Lineup: Malick, Scorsese, and Bogdanovich on 4K, Jackie Chan, and Claude Chabrol

Let's quickly skirt the sinking-stomach realization of how far into 2023 we're getting––at least this next crop of titles arrive as Barnes and Noble hold anoth...

Maestro Trailer: Bradley Cooper is Leonard Bernstein in Venice-Bound Biopic

Five years after his hit directorial debut A Star Is Born, few fall films are arriving with the illustrious pedigree of Bradley Cooper's sophomore feature Maes...

Michael Cera and Dustin Guy Defa on The Adults, Poker Cinema, and the Joy of Sesame Street

It’s February in Berlin and Michael Cera is dodging bullets. What's it like, one reporter asks, to be a new dad? “It's like a new obsession," the actor explain...

The Film Stage Show Ep. 517 – Afire (with Scout Tafoya)

Welcome, one and all, to the latest episode of The Film Stage Show! Today, Brian Roan, Bill Graham, and Robyn Bahr are joined by Scout Tafoya to discuss ...

Gran Turismo Review: Fast Cars and Fatherly Love Make this PlayStation Production Better Than It Has Any Right to Be

Gran Turismo, based on the PlayStation racing simulation games and directed by District 9 helmer Neill Blomkamp, is many things: a sports movie, an underdog st...

News

The Criterion Collection’s October Lineup Features The Silence of the Lambs and Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein on 4K, Jerzy Skolimowski, and Samuel Fuller

Locarno Film Festival Unveils 2026 Lineup

Eleanor Coppola’s Documentary on the Making of Sofia Coppola’s Marie Antoinette Is Coming Soon

Trailers

Filipiñana Trailer: Rafael Manuel’s Jia Zhangke-Backed Sundance Winner Opens This August

Domhnall Gleeson Encounters a Strange Land In First Trailer for The Incomer

Tony Gilroy Returns in First Trailer for Behemoth!

Reviews

The Odyssey Review: Christopher Nolan’s Journey of Perpetual, Enervating Awe

The Kidnapping of Arabella Review: Offbeat Italian Road Trip Comedy

Night Nurse Review: A Perverse, Seductive Thriller

Features

NYC Weekend Watch: The Hole, Electronica, Gakuryu Ishii, Nicholas Ray & More

The Best Movies Now Playing in Theaters

New to Streaming: The Furious, City Wide Fever, Amores Perros, Camp & More

Interviews

Tsai Ming-liang on the Personal Inspiration of The Hole, Constant Evolution, and His Next Films

“How Do You Make a Contemporary Erotic Thriller”: Georgia Bernstein on Night Nurse and Catherine Breillat

David Wain on the Hard Work of Making Dumb Jokes

Podcasts

The B-Sides of Christopher Nolan with Blake Howard

Yasmina Tawil on Progamming Hou Hsiao-hsien, David Fincher, Tom Tykwer & More for BAM’s Electronica Series

The B-Sides of Julia Roberts with Joe Reid

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