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NYFF Review: Kira Kovalenko’s Unclenching the Fists is a Bleak and Provocative Drama

There are clenched fists aplenty in Unclenching the Fists. Stuck in a former mining town high in the mountains of North Ossetia, its characters are as weighed ...

NYFF Review: Futura Cannot Escape the Past

Teenagers think about the future without hesitation. They worry about what jobs they’ll get, where they’ll go to school, who they will marry, who they might sl...

The Souvenir Part II Trailer: Joanna Hogg Returns with One of the Best Sequels of All-Time

While it is a warranted opinion to bemoan the endless output of sequels, an exception can certainly be made for Joanna Hogg's follow-up The Souvenir Part II––n...

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...

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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