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SXSW Review: Everything Everywhere All At Once is a Rollicking Rollercoaster Ride Through a Pop-Culture Multiverse

A general rule film students learn the first few weeks of their intro class is that a film teaches you how to watch it within the first five minutes. Well, mos...

SXSW Review: I Get Knocked Down Explores Life After Chumbawamba

At this moment, somewhere on planet Earth, a radio is thumping with the unmistakable opening of Chumbawamba’s utterly absurd 1997 smash, “Tubthumping.” Love it...

SXSW Review: Pirates Takes a Funny, Sweet Trip Through London at the Turn of the Millennium

George Lucas’ American Graffiti may not have had the cross-cultural impact of Star Wars, but its structure––the endearingly aimless lives and loves of teenage ...

Watch Alex Ross Perry’s Music Video for Pavement’s Harness Your Hopes

No, this is not a video from the archives. Released as a B-side on their 1999 EP Spit On a Stranger, Pavement's song Harness Your Hopes has had a rebirth as of...

Turning Red Review: Pixar’s Latest Animation Wonderfully Examines the Sacrifices of Happiness

13-year-old Mei (Rosalie Chiang) has always been the perfect child. She respects her parents (Sandra Oh's Ming and Orion Lee's Jin), helps work the family temp...

Vortex Trailer: Gaspar Noé Returns to Devastate You

After exploring sex and drugs with Love and Climax, respectively, Gaspar Noé is here devastate you with a look about the one thing we are all guaranteed to fac...

New to Streaming: Lingui, the Sacred Bonds, Cyrano, Turning Red, and 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...

The B-Side – 2022 Oscars Special (with Joe Reid)

Welcome to The B-Side, from The Film Stage. Here we usually talk about movie stars and not the movies that made them famous or kept them famous, but the ones t...

NYC Weekend Watch: Jane Campion, Bitter Moon, The Servant & More

NYC Weekend Watch is our weekly round-up of repertory offerings. Paris Theater An all-35mm Jane Campion retrospective is underway, with the director pres...

U.S. Trailer for The Girl and the Spider Brings One of 2022’s Best

More than a year since its Berlinale premiere is The Girl and the Spider coming to U.S. shores. Ramon and Silvan Zürcher's follow-up to The Strange Little Cat ...

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

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

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

Reviews

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

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

“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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