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Criterion’s May Lineup Includes Joseph Losey, Double Indemnity 4K & More

A couple of Criterion's May releases are all about encroaching fear, so we won't make you think about the fact that when these arrive 2022 will be in sight of ...

Windfall Trailer: Jason Segel Disrupts Jesse Plemons and Lily Collins’ Vacation

After making a splash with his nifty single-location romantic thriller The One I Love, Charlie McDowell’s follow-up The Discovery came and went quickly. But hi...

35 Armadillos, Singing on the Curbside: An Interview with John Lurie

In 1984 John Lurie had three films at Cannes but couldn’t afford a plane ticket. For a few indelible moments in Wim Wender’s Paris, Texas, as a high-end pimp h...

Juliette Binoche & Vincent Lindon Heat Up in Trio of Clips from Claire Denis’ Fire

While we're hopeful that 2022 may see the premiere of two new Claire Denis films, the first one has now seen the light of day. Fire (aka Both Sides of the Blad...

Berlin Review: The City and the City Weaves the Past and Present to Tell the Untold Story of Thessaloniki

Directors Christos Passalis and Syllas Tzoumerkas describe their film The City and the City as the untold story of Thessaloniki, Greece. It isn't that because ...

FRESH Trailer: Daisy Edgar-Jones and Sebastian Stan Take a Bite into the Rom-Com

One of the more divisive films coming out of Sundance Film Festival last month was Mimi Cave's FRESH, which provides a dark twist on the rom-com. Now set for a...

Berlin Review: Dario Argento Returns with Bizarre, Bloody Dark Glasses

As you watch Dark Glasses, Dario Argento’s first film in a decade, it’s nice to think back on his recent performance as the aging film critic in Gaspar Noé’s V...

Dominik Graf on Telling a Timeless Tale with Fabian: Going to the Dogs

Dominik Graf has been busy turning out termite art for decades. Finding a home on German TV shows like Tatort and Police Call 310, which air feature-length epi...

Berlin Review: Bertrand Bonello’s Coma is an Eclectic, Esoteric Lockdown Study

A contemporary cliché that weakly attempts to diagnose what ails us in modern life is the idea of being addled by technology––of our minds and attention spans ...

Berlin Review: Kamila Andini’s Before, Now & Then is a Well-Mannered Tale of Longing

In Before, Now & Then the social and political upheavals of 1960s Indonesia provide a hardened backbone to what is otherwise a tale of longing and simmerin...

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

17 Films to See in November

The Best Movies Now Playing in Theaters

Tony Leung, Johnnie To, and Chiara Mastroianni Talk Cinema’s Future as the 2024 Tokyo International Film Festival Begins

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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