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NYC Weekend Watch: Jonas Mekas, Mifune-Kurosawa & More

NYC Weekend Watch is our weekly round-up of repertory offerings. Film at Lincoln Center A retrospective of the invaluable Jonas Mekas has begun. Film ...

Berlin Review: Dry Ground Burning is a Fulminating, Engrossing Paean to the Marginalized in Bolsonaro’s Brazil

In the late 1950s newly elected President of Brazil Juscelino Kubitscheck ordered the country’s capital be moved from Rio de Janeiro toward a more central loca...

Berlin Review: Tyler Taormina’s Happer’s Comet is a Hypnotic Ode to the Night Owl

Spotting COVID-era ephemera was novel in the films of 2021—even in some of the best. As early as last February we saw masks being worn, some pointedly below th...

Playground Director Laura Wandel on Cycles of Bullying and Taking a Children’s Point of View

With her forceful feature debut Playground, Laura Wandel takes an intimate, intense look at the intricacies of abuse at school from a child's point of view. Fo...

Berlin Review: Stay Awake Takes a Complex Look at Familial Care and Compromise

Ethan (Wyatt Oleff) doesn't have to say anything when he appears at his brother Derek's (Fin Argus) work unannounced. They've gone through this too many times ...

Lunana: A Yak in the Classroom Review: Bhutan’s Oscar Hopeful Appreciates Matters of the Heart

Raised by his grandmother after his parents' deaths, Ugyen (Sherab Dorji) is considered lucky by his friends. He became a teacher and is just one year away fro...

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...

News

Tilda Swinton Says The Room Next Door May Be Her Last Film as New Trailer Arrives

Martin Scorsese Praises I Saw the TV Glow, Reveals Plans for Next Films

First Look at Lynne Ramsay’s Die, My Love Featuring Jennifer Lawrence and Robert Pattinson

Trailers

Pamela Anderson is The Last Showgirl in First Trailer for Gia Coppola’s Drama

Exclusive U.S. Trailer for Endless Summer Syndrome Unveils Provocative French Drama

Beatles ’64 Trailer: Martin Scorsese Captures the Band’s First Visit to America

Reviews

Allen Sunshine Review: A Tranquil Debut Feature with a World of Feeling

Gladiator II Review: Ridley Scott’s Sequel Bests Predecessor By Going Dumb

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

Features

New to Streaming: Megalopolis, Rumours, Look Into My Eyes, An Almost Christmas Story, and More

NYC Weekend Watch: The Limits of Control, Ealing Studios & More

The Best Movies Now Playing in Theaters

Interviews

Payal Kapadia on All We Imagine as Light, Impermanence, Magical Realism, and Trilogy Plans

Barry Keoghan on Young Fatherhood, Loving La La Land, and the Movement of Andrea Arnold’s Bird

NYC Weekend Watch: Ken Kelsch, Il Grido, Flesh for Frankenstein 3D & More

Podcasts

The B-Side – Gwyneth Paltrow (with Cory Everett)

The B-Side – Vincent Price (with Gavin Mevius)

The B-Side – Tim Burton (with Maria Lewis)

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