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Berlin Review: Hong Sangsoo Delivers Calm, Casual Charms in The Novelist’s Film

There is a small but growing belief among critics that just as Hong Sangsoo inches toward legendary status (festival omnipresence; evangelized by Richard Brody...

The Long Walk Review: Mattie Do’s Sci-Fi Drama Warns Against Opening Old Wounds

Modernization and traditional living collide to strong political effect in Mattie Do’s third feature film The Long Walk. Its first few images see both an unide...

Steven Spielberg to Direct New Film Based on Steve McQueen’s Bullitt Character

Coming off of one of his best films this century this far, his new take on West Side Story, Steven Spielberg's next film is already in the can, The Fablemans, ...

Tsai Ming-liang’s Vive L’Amour Gets Long-Overdue Restoration in New Trailer

It's a good time for Tsai Ming-liang fans. Not long after his latest masterpiece, Days, opened to the widest acclaim he's ever received and Goodbye, Dragon Inn...

New to Streaming: France, Friends and Strangers, The French Dispatch & 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 Film Stage Show Ep. 462 – The Lost Daughter

Welcome, one and all, to the latest episode of The Film Stage Show! Today, Brian Roan, Robyn Bahr, and Bill Graham discuss Maggie Gyllenhaal's directorial debu...

Hou Hsiao-hsien to Finally Embark on Shulan River This Year & Announces New Project with Chang Chen

After a prolific first two decades of his career (with many films we hope will get new restorations), Chinese-born Taiwanese master Hou Hsiao-hsien has been ta...

NYC Weekend Watch: Three By Spike Lee, Once Upon a Time in the West, Jamaa Fanaka & More

NYC Weekend Watch is our weekly round-up of repertory offerings. Roxy Cinema Three by Spike Lee (He Got Game, She Hate Me, Girl 6) screen on 35mm this we...

Kelvin Harrison Jr. on Cyrano, Singing On Screen, Being The New Guy On Set, and Collaborating with Joe Wright

Kelvin Harrison Jr. feels like one hit film away from being a full-fledged movie star. In Joe Wright’s Cyrano, the young actor shines as Christian, a handsome ...

Berlin Review: Scala is an Incandescent Tribute to a Cinema and its Passing

In the heyday of big-screen entertainment Thailand was home to some 700 standalone single-screen theaters. By 2019 only one of them survived in Bangkok. It was...

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

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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