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First Trailer for the New 7-Hour Version of Abel Gance’s Restored Napoleon

When it comes to summer blockbusters, it doesn't get much more epic than a film that first premiered nearly a century ago. For nearly two decades work has been...

Mia Hansen-Løve Reveals New Feature If Love Should Die, Shooting Next Year

Few directors capture modern life so vividly as Mia Hansen-Løve, and only in some cases does she show it in English-language contexts. Suggesting something of ...

Harley Chamandy on Allen Sunshine, Shooting on 16mm, and Finding Inspiration Outside of Cinema

At a lakeside cottage, Allen Sunshine (Vincent Leclerc) keeps to himself. He goes out on his boat, walks his dog, and wanders the surrounding forest with a tap...

First Look at Steve McQueen’s Blitz, Arriving This November

Following up last year's epic documentary Occupied City, Steve McQueen has returned to the WWII era with a narrative feature. Blitz, starring Saoirse Ronan and...

Mother, Couch Review: Ewan McGregor Leads a Strange, Pervasive Familial Phantasmagoria

"I've been bleeding my whole life." Mother, Couch is a boiling point of a picture. Written and directed by Niclas Larsson (and based on Jerker Virdborg's n...

Second Trailer for M. Night Shyamalan’s Trap Finds Josh Hartnett in the Crosshairs

On quite a Hitchcockian-meets Twilight Zone streak with the one-two punch of Old and Knock and the Cabin, expectations are high for M....

Listen to Eiko Ishibashi’s Score for Ryusuke Hamaguchi’s Evil Does Not Exist

Likely many reading this have already seen Ryusuke Hamaguchi's Evil Does Not Exist, which is more than a month into a theatrical run. It's only now that Eiko I...

“Who Let Me Film That?”: Catherine Breillat on Last Summer, Philosophy of Love, and Legacy

New York audiences might be the luckiest cinephiles this summer: French legend Catherine Breillat’s newest gem of a film Last Summer not only opens theatricall...

NYC Weekend Watch: Velvet Goldmine, Bound, Citizen Kane & More

NYC Weekend Watch is our weekly round-up of repertory offerings. Roxy CinemaFellow Roxy programmer Charli XCX presents Project X, To Die For, and Velvet Gol...

A Sacrifice Review: Eric Bana and Sadie Sink Lead an Effective Psychological Thriller

"We're all so fucked, right." So says Mazzy (Sadie Sink), a young woman visiting her father Ben (Eric Bana). This observation matches the dreadful tone of the ...

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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