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David Cronenberg’s Crimes of the Future Takes Place in a World Absent of Physical Pain

We are mere days away from being in the year of a new David Cronenberg movie. With filming having wrapped in Greece on Crimes of the Future––his sci-fi drama s...

The Criterion Channel’s January Lineup Includes Les Vampires, Sterling Hayden, Sundance & More

With fears our winter travel will need a, let's say, reconsideration, the Criterion Channel’s monthly programming could hardly come at a better moment. High on...

The Most Overlooked Films of 2021

In a year marked by a recovering box office and distributors experimenting with a wide variety of types of releases, what does an overlooked film constitute? W...

The Whaler Boy Exclusive Trailer: Venice Winner Captures Coming of Age on the Bering Strait

The winner of the Venice Days Director’s Award at the 2020 Venice Film Festival, writer-director Philipp Yuryev's immersive coming-of-age drama The Whaler Boy ...

First Trailer for Robert Eggers’ The Northman Introduces a Viking Epic

Following up his break-out horror hit The Witch and his black-and-white buddy comedy of sorts, The Lighthouse, Robert Eggers is returning in 2022 with his bigg...

Nightmare Alley Review: Guillermo del Toro Brings a Dreamlike Sheen to Noir Retelling

Of all the oddball flourishes across Guillermo del Toro’s filmography, it’s perhaps most surreal that he has taken this long to run away and join the circus. I...

U.S. Trailer for Pushpendra Singh’s Gorgeous Drama The Shepherdess and the Seven Songs

One of the most beautiful films I've seen in the last few years, Pushpendra Singh's The Shepherdess and the Seven Songs is finally getting a U.S. theatrical re...

Hong Sang-soo Makes an Introduction with Exclusive U.S. Trailer and Poster

Making for the ideal winter viewing, Hong Sang-soo's black-and-white drama Introduction––the first of two features to premiere on the festival circuit this yea...

The B-Side – Joan Harrison (with Christina Lane)

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

MUBI Unveils January 2022 Lineup

MUBI is kicking off the new year with a selection of our 2021 highlights, including some of which haven't picked up proper distribution yet. Most notably, thei...

News

The Indie Awards Launch With Nominees Including Free Time, The People’s Joker, and Atikamekw Suns

Lance Oppenheim Will Direct Primetime for A24 and Robert Pattinson; Sydney Sweeney to Play Kim Novak for Colman Domingo’s Scandalous

All 2024 Films Having Awards-Qualifying, One-Week Releases

Trailers

Raoul Peck Investigates a Photographer Pioneer in First Trailer for Ernest Cole: Lost and Found

Porcelain War Trailer: Sundance Winner Captures Ukrainian Artists Fighting for Their Country

September 5 Trailer Explores a Sports Broadcasting Team’s Coverage of the 1972 Hostage Crisis

Reviews

AFI Fest Review: My Favourite Cake Finds an Autumnal Romance Blooming Under Iranian Authoritarianism

NYFF Review: On Becoming a Guinea Fowl is a Powerfully Enraging, Surreally Comedic Look at Zambian Tradition

BFI London Review: Charlie McDowell’s The Summer Book is a Clunky Drama Connecting Landscape and Soul

Features

New to Streaming: Trap, One False Move, Rap World, Daaaaaalí!, The Remarkable Life of Ibelin & More

NYC Weekend Watch: Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors, Candy Mountain, Chantal Akerman, Azazel Jacobs & More

The Best Movies Now Playing in Theaters

Interviews

The Making of the Indian Sci-Fi Box-Office Sensation Kalki 2898 AD

“100 Clichés Move Us”: Rumours Directors Guy Maddin, Evan Johnson & Galen Johnson on Finding Humor in a World in Crisis

“You Cannot Project Your Desire”: Albert Serra on Afternoons of Solitude, Bullfighting, and Kristen Stewart

Podcasts

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

The Film Stage Show Farewell Episode – Megalopolis

The B-Side – Barbra Streisand (with Chris Feil)

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