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Hamburg Review: Franz Rogowski is Mesmerizing in the Quiet, Thoughtful Drama Great Freedom

As we learned during the pandemic, some things take two shots to fully work. I saw Austrian director Sebastian Meise’s Great Freedom at Cannes this summer. A c...

BIFF Review: Bad Attitude: The Art of Spain Rodriguez Examines the Uncompromising Work of an Underground Legend

It's easy to pick out two of the talking heads in Susan Stern's Bad Attitude: The Art of Spain Rodriguez, a documentary about her husband. Robert Crumb, the ar...

BIFF Review: We Burn Like This Walks Through a Dense Minefield of Emotions

Though she had just experienced the racial abuse of a redneck throwing a glass bottle at her Native American roommate Chrissy B. (Devery Jacobs) before screami...

BIFF Review: Life After You Adapts a Candid Account of Grief, Uncertainty, and Guilt

A moment at the beginning of Sarah T Schwab's adaptation of Life After You tells you all you need to know about the central mother-son relationship. Linda (co-...

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 ...

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

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

Michel Gondry Returns to Animation in First Trailer for Maya, Give Me a Title

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

The Best Movies Now Playing in Theaters

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

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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