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NYC Weekend Watch: Chocolat, Lizzie Borden, After Hours, The Sorrow and the Pity & More

NYC Weekend Watch is our weekly round-up of repertory offerings. Film at Lincoln CenterClaire Denis' masterful first feature Chocolat has been restored in 4...

New to Streaming: EO, Knock at the Cabin, Alcarràs, Holy Spider, The Whale & 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. 498 – Top 10 Films of 2022

Welcome, one and all, to the latest episode of The Film Stage Show! Today, Brian Roan, Bill Graham, and Robyn Bahr serve up a special episode dishing out their...

Return to Seoul‘s Davy Chou & Park Ji-Min on the Influence of David Fincher and the Global Language of Cinema

In Return to Seoul, director Davy Chou tells a moving story of fractured identity amidst a constantly changing world. It's through the eyes of Freddie (Park Ji...

A Thousand and One Trailer: A.V. Rockwell’s Sundance Grand Jury Prize Winner Arrives in March

In a festival of many breakthroughs, one of the major ones of Sundance Film Festival 2023 was A.V. Rockwell and her directorial debut, the Grand Jury Prize win...

A Superhero Movie Worth Watching Finally Arrives: See the U.S. Trailer for Quentin Dupieux’s Smoking Causes Coughing

Working at such a clip it can be hard to discern when his films actually arrive stateside and on what platform, Quentin Dupieux's second movie of last year, Sm...

Sick of Myself Trailer: Ari Aster and John Waters Love This Norwegian Black Comedy

Hailing from Norway and, indeed, from the producers of the last major film from the country, The Worst Person in the World, Kristoffer Borgli's Sick of Myself ...

The Criterion Channel Announce March Lineup: Isabelle Huppert, Michelle Yeoh, Pre-Code, Lars von Trier & More

It is my experience that one gets a far richer, stranger cinema education in pursuing the careers of actors, that group defined first by (assuming luck shines ...

Berlinale Review: Christian Petzold’s Afire Unfurls with the Page-Turning Seduction of a Gripping Novella

Writing recently about the introduction of video umpires in baseball, of all things, Zach Helfand was skeptical: “accuracy is not the same as enjoyment,” he wr...

Berlinale Review: Disco Boy Takes Franz Rogowski on a Hallucinatory Military Journey

To be blunt about it, we’re reaching the sad, maybe inevitable stage where Beau Travail and its famous closing sequence are becoming subject to the dreaded “Se...

News

Amnesiascope Presents Films by Raúl Ruiz and Dominik Graf on March 30 and 31

April on the Criterion Channel Includes Out-of-Print Editions, Jacques Tourneur, Mary Bronstein, Trans Filmmakers & More

First Poster for Ryusuke Hamaguchi’s All of a Sudden, Primed for Cannes Debut

Trailers

Dune: Part Three Trailer: Denis Villeneuve Concludes His Sci-Fi Trilogy

Blue Heron Trailer: Sophy Romvari’s Acclaimed Feature Debut Arrives This April

Amrum Trailer: Fatih Akin Reteams with Diane Kruger in WWII-Set Cannes Selection

Reviews

SXSW Review: Their Town Is a Smart, Tender, and Somber Look at Teenhood

SXSW Review: The Last Critic Hails the Great Music Scribe Robert Christgau

SXSW Review: Pizza Movie Is a Strange Dumb Trip That Understands the Assignment

Features

NYC Weekend Watch: Agnès Varda, Mabou Mines, Pulse & More

New to Streaming: Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die, The Testament of Ann Lee, Ghost Elephants & More

The Best Movies Now Playing in Theaters

Interviews

“I Want to Capture Miracles”: Alexandre Koberidze on Dry Leaf and Shooting on a Sony Ericsson

“It Scared a Lot of People”: Jane Alexander on Testament, Nuclear Threats, and Her Accomplished Career

Werner Herzog on Dreams, Defeats, Ghost Elephants, and Why He’s Not a Workaholic

Podcasts

Gabe Klinger on Finishing Movies, Navigating Festivals, and Isabel

The Academy Award Categories That No Longer Exist

Remembering Tom Noonan with Keith Uhlich

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