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The Criterion Channel’s May Lineup Includes Richard Linklater, Ida Lupino, Jean Gabin & More

May on the Criterion Channel will be good to the auteurs. In fact they're giving Richard Linklater better treatment than the distributor of his last film, with...

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...

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: Dreamy Stereoscopic 3D Folk Tale Twittering Soul is One of a Kind

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

Features

The Best Movies Now Playing in Theaters

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

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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