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Bob Dylan’s Concert Film Shadow Kingdom Arriving In June; Listen to the First Track

Your local Bob Dylan obsessive has surely mentioned Shadow Kingdom, the 2021 concert film that saw him rework an assortment of earlier songs––some established ...

Helena Wittmann on Human Flowers of Flesh, the Constant Evolution of Claire Denis, and Underwater Cinematography

With only two feature films, German director Helena Wittmann has established herself as one of the most distinctive voices in international cinema. Her 2017 de...

Exclusive Trailer for Giving Birth to a Butterfly Captures a Surreal, Dreamlike Road Trip, Shot on 16mm

One of the highlights we caught at Fantasia International Film Festival in 2021 now has a home and it's arriving sooner than expected. Theodore Schaefer’s debu...

Cannes Film Festival 2023 Lineup Features Jonathan Glazer, Todd Haynes, Nuri Bilge Ceylan, Wes Anderson & More

It's Christmas morning for cinephiles. As per tradition, the Cannes Film Festival unveiled its 2023 selections in a press conference early this morning––at lea...

One of Japan’s Greatest Directors Gets Restored In Trailer for Rites of Passage: The Films of Shinji Somai

A certain type of cinephile weeb (hello) holds maybe no post-New Wave Japanese director more highly than Shinji Somai, but it's the nature of such fandom that ...

Ryûsuke Hamaguchi on Passion, Learning from Kiyoshi Kurosawa, and Rethinking How to Make Films

Friends meet at a restaurant for a birthday dinner in the opening scenes of Ryûsuke Hamaguchi's Passion. Everyone loves the wrong person. Tomoya (Ryuta Okamoto...

Sick of Myself Review: An Acidic Tale of Attention-Seeking Self-Obsession

From Sick of Myself’s opening scene depicting an awkward birthday dinner, the power dynamic between young couple Signe (Kristine Kujath Thorp) and Erik (Eirik ...

Margaret Qualley Dominates Christopher Abbott in First Trailer for Sanctuary

One of the highlights from last year's TIFF is finally heading to theaters this May. Director Zachary Wigon's Sanctuary, scripted by Micah Bloomberg, pairs Mar...

Jim Jarmusch Expects to Shoot New Feature This Year

Though Jim Jarmusch hasn't entirely fallen off the map––COVID knocked about a year from everybody's production timelines, and there is a new album from his exc...

The Film Stage Show Ep. 502 – John Wick: Chapter 4 (with Jonah Jeng)

Welcome, one and all, to the latest episode of The Film Stage Show! Today, Brian Roan and Bill Graham are joined by Jonah Jeng to discuss Chad Stahelski's John...

News

Japan Cuts Announces 2026 Slate Featuring Hirokazu Kore-eda, Gakuryu Ishii, Yoji Yamada & More

Alice Rohrwacher to Direct The Baron in the Trees; Next Film to Be Primarily Silent

Cristian Mungiu’s Fjord Wins Palme d’Or: See Full List of Cannes 2026 Winners

Trailers

Marcello Mastroianni Yearns In Trailer for 4K Restoration of Luchino Visconti’s White Nights

Exclusive Trailer for Greg Vrotsos’ Feature Debut Situations Follows a Journey of Love and Ambition in Los Angeles

Reviews

Tribeca Review: Here I’m Alive Is a Raw, Intimate Look at Messy New York Lives

I Am Frankelda Review: Mexico’s First Stop-Motion Feature Speaks Truth to Power

The Gas Station Attendant Review: A Compelling If Formally Unsure Immigrant Story

Features

The Film Stage’s 2026 Tribeca Festival Portrait Gallery

NYC Weekend Watch: Italian History, Universal Westerns, Black Cops & More

Posterized June 2026: Maddie’s Secret, The Furious, Drunken Noodles & More

Interviews

“The Hard Work Is In the Screenwriting”: John Sayles on Resourceful Filmmaking, James Cameron, and His TIFF Retrospective

The Currents Director Milagros Mumenthaler on Sensory Filmmaking, Motherhood, and Capturing an Internal State

“Making Movies Should Be a Pleasure”: Olivier Assayas on The Wizard of the Kremlin

Podcasts

The B-Sides of Goldie Hawn with Jen Johans

The B-Sides of Laurence Fishburne with Mitchell Beaupre

The B-Sides of Eddie Murphy with Nicholas Gray and Alvin Keith

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