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Gaspar Noé on Facing Death, Casting Dario Argento, and the Hypnosis of Vortex

It’s August at the Locarno Film Festival and Gaspar Noé is in a philosophical mood: “In life there are not two doors. There is just one door. There is an entra...

Exclusive Restoration Trailer for Robert Mugge’s Deep Blues Takes a Music-Filled Journey Through the South

An official selection at the 1992 Sundance Film Festival, Robert Mugge's music documentary Deep Blues has now been restored and is arriving this fall. In 1990,...

Arrebato Review: Newly Restored Spanish Horror Lives Up to Cult Classic Status

It's not until heroin is mentioned that Ana Turner (Cecilia Roth) stops and reconsiders the offer to partake by boyfriend José Sirgado (Eusebio Poncela). She's...

Old Henry Review: Tim Blake Nelson Commands Quiet, Dark Western

Henry's (Tim Blake Nelson) been living and farming his Oklahoma land for almost two decades, if not more—the last ten as a single father to the now-teenage Wya...

What Do We See When We Look at the Sky? Trailer: Berlinale Winner Arrives This November

One of the major surprises coming out of Berlinale earlier this year was Alexandre Koberidze's What Do We See When We Look at the Sky?, which won the FIPRESCI ...

First Trailer for Paul Thomas Anderson’s Licorice Pizza Brings 1970s California to Life

Considering how little we've seen from it, it's hard to believe Paul Thomas Anderson is putting the finishing touches on his next feature Licorice Pizza. Will ...

The Many Saints of Newark Review: The Sopranos Prequel is an All-American Opera Stuffed Into Cinematic Form

To describe verbatim the first-or-so minute of The Many Saints of Newark would be to spoil not only one of the film’s more audacious twists, painstakingly conc...

El Planeta Director Amalia Ulman on How Pre-Code Cinema and Social Media Influenced Her Directorial Debut

In 2014, maverick artist Amalia Ulman crafted an Instagram performance piece entitled “Excellences & Perfections” in which she performed the part of a made...

NYFF Review: Joel Coen’s The Tragedy of Macbeth is a Fiercely-Acted Thriller

The first image in Joel Coen’s The Tragedy of Macbeth is of three ravens hovering through foggy and filthy air. Their altitude suggests the camera craning its ...

The Criterion Channel’s October 2021 Lineup Brings Horror, Kirk Douglas, Edgar Wright & More

October's here and it's time to get spooked. After last year's superb "'70s Horror" lineup, the Criterion Channel commemorates October with a couple series: "U...

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

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

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

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

“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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