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NYC Weekend Watch: Solaris, John M. Stahl, Lina Wertmüller & More

After a hiatus as theaters in New York City and beyond closed their doors during the pandemic, we’re delighted to announce the return of NYC Weekend Watch, our...

Joachim Trier on Falling in Love and the Chaotic Impulsivity of The Worst Person in the World

With The Worst Person in the World, Joachim Trier completes his loose Oslo trilogy, a collection of films set in his childhood hometown focused, generally, on ...

Air Doll Review: Hirokazu Kore-eda’s Achingly Human Sex Doll Fable Finally Receives a U.S. Release

Despite coming from one of international cinema’s foremost working filmmakers, Hirokazu Kore-eda’s 2009 film Air Doll had never seen a release in the U.S. Adap...

Will Lovelace and Dylan Southern on the Magic of NYC, the Indie Music Landscape, and Making Meet Me in the Bathroom

Adapting Lizzy Goodman's novel of the same name, Will Lovelace and Dylan Southern’s Meet Me in the Bathroom captures the essence of late-90s, early-2000s New Y...

Lingui, The Sacred Bonds Director Mahamat-Saleh Haroun on Seven Favorite Films

The Chad-born, France-based Mahamat-Saleh Haroun debuted his latest drama, Lingui, The Sacred Bonds, in competition at the Cannes Film Festival last summer. A ...

Sincerity & Spite: A Conversation with the Directors & Star of Hannah Ha Ha

Directors Jordan Tetewsky and Joshua Pikovsky are two of the hardest-working young artists in the U.S. Each of their three short films from 2021––the Jewish an...

Posterized February 2022: The Worst Person in the World, Friends and Strangers, The Sky Is Everywhere & More

A couple of studios rightfully got nervous about the increased COVID numbers over the holidays and moved their marquee titles away from the wintry mont...

Exclusive Trailer for the Striking Servants Captures Rebellion in Communist Czechoslovakia

One of the most visually striking dramas I've recently seen out of New Directors/New Films is Ivan Ostrochovsky's Servants, which initially made its debut at t...

Watch Ryusuke Hamaguchi & Isabelle Huppert Discuss the Language of Cinema in 75-Minute Talk

Not only did Ryusuke Hamaguchi craft two of the greatest films of last year with Drive My Car and Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy, but the rising Japanese master ...

First Clips and Plot Details for Bertrand Bonello’s Coma, Premiering at Berlinale

Update: See the first clips below. Earlier last year it was announced Bertrand Bonello would be embarking on the ambitious sci-fi melodrama La Bête&nbs...

News

Metrograph Launches Print Publication with Inaugural Issue Featuring Ryusuke Hamaguchi, Clint Eastwood, Ari Aster & More

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

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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