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All is Forgiven Review: Mia Hansen-Løve’s Debut is a Gut-Wrenching Drama

After nearly fifteen years, Mia Hansen-Løve’s feature debut All is Forgiven finally has its theatrical release in the U.S. A tender yet heart-wrenching drama a...

New to Streaming: Robert Mitchum, The Beta Test, All Is Forgiven, Garrett Bradley’s Shorts & 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...

Jim Cummings and PJ McCabe on Making a Goofball Chinatown with The Beta Test

The Beta Test, the newest micro-budget film from independent actor-writer-director Jim Cummings, finds the Emerson College alum teaming up with his friend, cla...

SDAFF Review: A River Runs, Turns, Erases, Replaces is Shengze Zhu’s Open Letter to Wuhan and its Rapid Progress

The river in Shengze Zhu’s fourth feature A River Runs, Turns, Erases, Replaces is not an ordinary river. It’s the longest in Asia and located at the heart of ...

NYC Weekend Watch: Mia Hansen-Løve Selects, India Song, Three by Assayas & More

Metrograph With her sublime debut All is Forgiven now playing, Mia Hansen-Løve has curated a series populated by the likes of Varda, Rohmer, and Edward Yang...

The B-Side – In Conversation with Harvey Keitel

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...

Finch Review: Tom Hanks Gets His Chappie in Inconsistent Yet Charming Sci-Fi Drama

Listen closely while watching Finch and you can almost hear a studio exec's elevator pitch. It’s certainly apparent in every single frame of the film, almost t...

Posterized November 2021: Spencer, The Power of the Dog, C’mon C’mon & More

November brings Hollywood blockbusters, awards favorites, foreign Oscars hopefuls, and more with a ton of titles showing how this holiday season is goi...

SDAFF Review: Martin Edralin Makes a Gentle and Tender Debut with Islands

In Martin Edralin’s directorial debut Islands, the life of a shy, middle-aged Filipino man living in Canada gets a new meaning. What was once monotonous and lo...

Eternals Review: Chloé Zhao Can’t Escape the Black Hole of the Disney Machine

There may not be any eventuality in the Multiverse where Eternals works. It feels like deep-cut source material not mined for adaptation out of desire, but a n...

News

Bertand Bonello, Takashi Miike, Nikyatu Jusu, and More Plan Next Features

James Gray to Direct Adam Driver, Jeremy Strong, and Anne Hathaway in Paper Tiger

Tarsem Singh, Jaume Collet-Serra, Kim Jee-woon, Paul W.S. Anderson & More Set Next Films

Trailers

The End Trailer: Tilda Swinton, Michael Shannon, and George MacKay Ring in the Apocalypse

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

Reviews

AFI Fest Review: September 5 is a Competent But Bloodless Thriller

AFI Review: Vermiglio Paints a Lyrical Portrait of Desires Constrained by Catholicism

Paddington in Peru Review: Threequel Fails to Climb to Franchise Heights

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

Kani Kusruti on All We Imagine as Light, Girls Will Be Girls, and Indian Moviegoing Culture

“Less Money, More Liberty”: Paulo Branco on a Cinematic Life with David Cronenberg, Manoel De Oliveira, and Raúl Ruiz

“Nobody Ever Gave Me Anything”: Alan Rudolph on Robert Altman, Bruce Willis, Kurt Vonnegut, and Resurrecting Breakfast of Champions

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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