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BFI London Review: George Clooney’s The Tender Bar is an Affable But Formulaic Coming-of-Age Tale

When George Clooney jumped to directing he claimed to be motivated by the kinds of movies Hollywood doesn’t make anymore—screwball comedies, sober political th...

Watch a Two-Hour Conversation Between Bong Joon Ho and Ryusuke Hamaguchi

While the season of Ryusuke Hamaguchi formally began with last month's arrival of Kiyoshi Kurosawa's Wife of a Spy (which he co-wrote), this week finally bring...

Mia Hansen-Løve on Bergman Island, Writing with Pleasure, and the Paradise of Fårö

One's life is their art as their art is their life—this is the axiom of Mia Hansen-Løve's career which, seemingly all of a sudden, is fifteen years and seven f...

The Film Stage Show Ep. 447 – No Time to Die (with Kyle Turner)

Welcome, one and all, to the latest episode of The Film Stage Show! Today, Brian Roan, Bill Graham, and Robyn Bahr are joined by Kyle Turner to discuss Cary Fu...

John Carpenter on Scoring Halloween Kills, Videogames, and Basketball

Ever since his first non-soundtrack album, Lost Themes, released in 2015, legendary horror director John Carpenter has entered what could be called a second wi...

New Trailer for Peter Jackson’s The Beatles: Get Back Goes Behind Closed Doors

Earlier this year we called, without hesitation or compunction, Peter Jackson's The Beatles: Get Back one of 2021's most-anticipated films. If the first traile...

Needle in a Timestack Review: Cynthia Erivo and Leslie Odom Jr. Lead a Grounded Time Travel Romance

For a movie about a fated love (Leslie Odom Jr.'s Nick and Cynthia Erivo's Janine) being undermined by a jealous ex (Orlando Bloom's Tommy), I didn't expect to...

Busan Review: Farewell, My Hometown is a Hypnotic Portrait of Three Generations of Chinese Women

Chinese cinema is at a weird place. On the one hand, three of 2021's top five worldwide grossers are, as of writing, Chinese, so it’s doing more than okay on t...

NYFF Review: All About My Sisters is an Intimate, Affecting, and Brutal Look Behind China’s One-Child Policy

All About My Sisters, the nearly three-hour documentary debut from Wang Qiong, could be called All About My Sister. More specifically her sister Jin, who was a...

Ethan Hawke Will Light Himself on Fire in Trailer for Abel Ferrara’s Zeros and Ones

The fall movie season is so packed that it's easy to forget we have a new Abel Ferrara movie coming—a good one, to hear word. After winning Locarno's Best Dire...

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

Oh, Canada Trailer: Richard Gere Reflects on His Life in Paul Schrader’s Poignant Drama

Billy Zane Transforms into Marlon Brando in First Trailer for Waltzing with Brando

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

Reviews

Riga Review: Dreamy Stereoscopic 3D Folk Tale Twittering Soul is One of a Kind

Riga Review: Saulė Bliuvaitė’s Locarno-Winning Toxic Will Worm Its Way Inside You

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

Features

Five Highlights from the 2024 Tokyo International Film Festival

The Best Movies Now Playing in Theaters

Tokyo International Film Festival Artistic Director Ichiyama Shôzô Offers Insight Into a Growing Organization

Interviews

“Life Is Worth Celebrating”: Tyler Taormina on Christmas Eve in Miller’s Point

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

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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