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Recommended New Books on Filmmaking: NYC and the Movies, Analyzing Inland Empire, and How Shaun of the Dead Came to Life

The end of summer and start of fall has seen the release of several books that qualify as major entries in film studies—specifically Fun City Cinema and Inland...

MUBI Unveils November 2021 Lineup

Following the announcement of their new curated theatrical venture MUBI GO, next month's U.S. streaming lineup at MUBI has now been unveiled. Highlights includ...

Labyrinth of Cinema Review: Nobuhiko Ôbayashi’s Final Film is a Mammoth, Humbling Viewing Experience

There are so many critical and theoretical entry points for discussing a film so dense as Nobuhiko Ôbayashi’s Labyrinth of Cinema that it’s hard to know where ...

Stream Eiko Ishibashi’s Drive My Car Score & Watch Ryusuke Hamaguchi’s Music Video

Not only has Ryusuke Hamaguchi directed two of the year's best films (the masterful triptych Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy and his soothing Murakami epic Drive ...

Tomas Alfredson to Direct Rachel Weisz in Seance on a Wet Afternoon

Attempting to climb out of director's jail after the disastrous The Snowman, Tomas Alfredson returned to his native country of Sweden for the comedy Se upp för...

The Feast Trailer Offers a Taste of Acclaimed Welsh Folk Horror

This Thanksgiving, if one is looking to bite into some post-Halloween horror, a new Welsh folk horror feature looks to satisfy. Lee Haven Jones' The Feast, whi...

MUBI GO, Featuring Curated Theatrical Moviegoing for $10.99 a Month, is Coming to the U.S.

MoviePass is, sadly, dead and gone but the major theatrical chains took a few lessons from the rather radical experiment in exhibition. For a more premium pric...

Minyan Review: An Affecting, Lovely Brighton Beach Memoir

The year is 1986, the setting is New York City, and the AIDS epidemic is running rampant. Our hero David (Samuel H. Levine) is a teenager living in Brighton Be...

The B-Side – In Conversation with Alessandro Nivola Part II

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...

The Lost Daughter Trailer: Olivia Colman, Dakota Johnson & Jessie Buckley Lead Maggie Gyllenhaal’s Directorial Debut

Arriving at the tail end of this year is a film with quite some pedigree. For her directorial debut, Maggie Gyllenhaal has adapted one of the most acclaimed wr...

News

Exclusive Poster for Crystal Moselle and Derrick B. Harden’s The Black Sea Follows a Brooklynite Making Waves in Bulgaria

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

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 – Vincent Price (with Gavin Mevius)

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

The Film Stage Show Farewell Episode – Megalopolis

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