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NYFF Review: C’mon C’mon is an Affecting Drama of Genuine Kindness and Comfort

Mike Mills could be described as a graphic designer. Or a musician. Or a music-video director. He’s a frequent collaborator of The National, directing a short ...

NYFF Review: Haruhara-san’s Recorder is Compelling in Theory, But Not Execution

The concept behind Kyoshi Sugita’s Haruhara-san’s Recorder is resembling the structure of the Naoko Higashi poem on which it's based. Said poem, a tanka, is in...

NYFF Review: Outside Noise is a Lo-Fi Independent Meditation

Ted Fendt’s Outside Noise is largely noiseless. Without background music, following the lives of three women traveling back and forth between Vienna and Berlin...

Come Play With Vidiots and The Film Stage for Cinephile Game Night’s October 2021 Show

Watch a replay of the show below. https://twitter.com/TheFilmStage/status/1450628833766514689 We’re excited to announce that Cinephile Game Night will ...

The Film Stage Show Ep. 446 – The Many Saints of Newark (with Dan Fienberg)

Welcome, one and all, to the latest episode of The Film Stage Show! Today, Brian Roan, Bill Graham, and Robyn Bahr are joined by Dan Fienberg to discuss Alan T...

South of Heaven Review: Jason Sudeikis is a Felon on a Desperate Path in Uneven Crime Drama

Jimmy Ray (Jason Sudeikis) is 12 years into a 15-year prison stint for armed robbery. He pled guilty, so there's no "you got the wrong guy" play up his sleeve ...

Busan Review: Im Sang-soo’s Heaven: To the Land of Happiness is an Entertaining, If Formulaic Odd Couple Comedy

In summer 2020, faced with the unenviable choice between canceling and going virtual—which was never really an option, given its longstanding anti-streaming st...

Cyrano Trailer: Joe Wright, The National, and Peter Dinklage Team for Musical Adaptation

Ryusuke Hamaguchi, Hong Sangsoo, Zack Snyder, and Edgar Wright aren't the only directors with two films arriving this year. Joe Wright, whose delayed drama The...

Exclusive Trailer for Joshua Bonnetta’s The Two Sights Takes a Hypnotic Trip to the Outer Hebrides

Following screenings at the Berlin International Film Festival, Art of the Real, Cinéma du Réel, and more, Cinema Guild will release Joshua Bonnetta’s hypnotic...

First Trailer for Sean Baker’s Red Rocket Finds Simon Rex Seeking Redemption

In what will surely be his most divisive––and in my opinion, best––film, Sean Baker is back with Red Rocket. Giving one of the year's finest performances, Simo...

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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