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A Decade After Inherent Vice, Paul Thomas Anderson to Reteam with Warner Bros. for Next Film

It was just after Thanksgiving last year that we received the exciting news that Paul Thomas Anderson––who turns 53 today––was set to embark on his tenth narra...

Recommended New Books on Filmmaking: Paul Thomas Anderson’s America, The Dirty Dozen, Giallo, Surveying the African American Western & More

Who needs summer blockbusters when there are so many gripping new and recent books related to the world of cinema? This column includes books highlighting crea...

Desperate Souls, Dark City and the Legend of Midnight Cowboy Review: Nancy Buirski Unpacks the Cultural Impact of a Masterpiece

Desperate Souls, Dark City and the Legend of Midnight Cowboy professes to be something more than just a documentary about the making of Midnight Cowboy: an ext...

Tribeca Review: Transition Follows a Trans Reporter’s Harrowing Journey Profiling the Taliban

By the standards of a war-based documentary, Jordan Bryon and Monica Villamizar’s Transition rarely features violence. Steering clear of carnage, it instead fo...

First Trailer for Ethan Coen’s Lesbian Road Trip Comedy Drive-Away Dolls

After directing together for over three decades, Joel and Ethan Coen have parted ways for their recent projects. The former helmed the black-and-white Shakespe...

Lucrecia Martel on Her Brush with the MCU, Awarding Joker, and Her Upcoming Javier Chocobar Documentary

It's a crisp morning in Nyon and Lucrecia Martel is going off on one. “To arrive at a meaning you need a sentence, so that is the word order," she begins, her ...

Listen to the Soundtracks for Asteroid City and Past Lives

Two of the best films of the year also happen to feature two of the best soundtracks of the year and as each enters a wide release today, the scores are now av...

The B-Side – In Conversation with Mark Pellington (Part II)

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...

New to Streaming: You Hurt My Feelings, Sanctuary, Pacifiction, Godland, Other People’s Children & 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...

No Hard Feelings Review: Jennifer Lawrence’s Comedy Outing is Well-Crafted, Funny, and Far Too Tame

When the trailer for Gene Stupnitksy's No Hard Feelings made the rounds online, it felt like a mild event. Not only for a return to big theatrical releases for...

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

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

The B-Sides of Steven Spielberg with Bilge Ebiri

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