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Éric Rohmer’s Theater Play Gets Adapted in Exclusive Trailer for Rita Azevedo Gomes’ Berlinale Premiere The Kagelstatt Trio

With Sundance Film Festival now in the rearview, all sights are set on the Berlin International Film Festival when it comes to getting a new batch of the year'...

Riley Stearns on Creating the World of Dual, Capturing Loneliness, and Directing Karen Gillan’s Double Performance

Dual, the third feature from writer/director Riley Stearns, follows a young woman named Sarah (Karen Gillan), who opts to be replaced with a “double” after fin...

Slamdance Review: Paris is in Harlem Explores the Repeal of NYC’s Cabaret Law with Overdramatic Fictionalization

Enacted during Prohibition—and the Harlem Renaissance—the New York City Cabaret Law made it so any public establishment that served food and/or drink needed a ...

The B-Side – In Conversation with Adrien Brody

Welcome to The B-Side, from The Film Stage. Here we talk about movie stars! Not the movies that made them famous or kept them famous, but the ones that they ma...

Slamdance Review: Yelling Fire in an Empty Theater Flips NYC-Set Romance Tropes

A long-time coming fit of exasperation gets Lisa (Isadora Leiva) to ask herself the question she should have asked before leaving Florida behind: is New York C...

Slamdance Review: Honeycomb is an Intriguingly Idiosyncratic Ride

Tired of always waiting to see what the boys want to do, five teenage girls during the summer between high school and college decide to take matters into their...

2022 Sundance Film Festival Award Winners Announced

After nine days, 84 feature films, and 59 short films, the Sundance juries have announced their winners, with all films screenings over Saturday and Sunday and...

Sundance Review: Meet Me in the Bathroom Nostalgically Chronicles the NYC Indie Band Boom

An accurate measure of great music would probably be connected to longevity. In other words the notion that an individual song or album will sound as rewarding...

Sundance Review: Navalny is an Essential, Personal, and Urgent Look at Putin’s Worst Nightmare

Early in Daniel Roher’s alarming and essential documentary Navalny, Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny sits in Germany, having recovered from being poiso...

Sundance Review: TikTok, Boom. Looks at the Viral App Through a Geopolitical Lens

The much-anticipated follow-up to her excellent documentary Coded Bias, Shalini Kantayya’s TikTok, Boom. doesn’t quite know what to make of the addicting viral...

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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