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Exclusive Trailer for the 2024 New York Asian Film Festival Delivers Electrifying Thrills

Now in its 23rd edition, the New York Asian Film Festival has been delivering high-octane thrills, riveting drama, hilarious comedies, and beyond from across A...

New to Streaming: The Boy and the Heron, Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga, In a Violent Nature, AGGRO DR1FT & More

Each week we highlight the noteworthy titles that have recently hit streaming platforms in the United States. Check out this week’s selections below and past r...

Chronicles of a Wandering Saint Review: A Charming, Intelligent Exploration of Spiritual, Ethical, and Religious Contrasts

Tomás Gómez Bustillo’s charming, intelligent Chronicles of a Wandering Saint is a natural follow-up to the two short films for which he is known: Soy Buenos Ai...

The B-Side – In Conversation with Daniel Waters on Hudson Hawk & More

Welcome to The B-Side, from The Film Stage. Here we talk about filmmakers! Not the films that made them famous or kept them famous, but the ones that they made...

Harmony Korine Resurrects The Trap as Anime Feature and Sets Up Motion-Capture Comedy

Harmony Korine scholars no doubt mourn The Trap, a revenge thriller he once called his "most ambitious project" and which would've starred Benicio Del Toro, Ro...

Veronika Franz and Severin Fiala on The Devil’s Bath, Unhomely Houses, Depression, and Empathy

It’s rare for a festival like the Berlinale to allow a genre film in its main competition, and this year it was Veronika Franz and Severin Fiala’s third featur...

U.S. Trailer for Close Your Eyes Brings Víctor Erice’s Triumphant Return Stateside

Despite being seen exclusively on the festival circuit, Víctor Erice's first feature in 30 years, Close Your Eyes, ended up at #20 on our best-of-2023 list. On...

My Old Ass Trailer: Aubrey Plaza Gives Advice to a Younger Version of Herself in Sundance Comedy

Premiering at the Sundance Film Festival earlier this year, Megan Park's coming-of-age comedy My Old Ass has a bit of a light sci-fi twist. On her 18th birthda...

Sebastian Trailer: A Journalist Explores Sex Work for Research in Sundance Drama

Premiering earlier this year at Sundance Film Festival, Sebastian marks the sophomore feature from writer/director Mikko Mäkelä (whose debut was the 2017 gay r...

A Quiet Place: Day One Review: A Tender, Uneven Franchise Origin Story of Existential Despair

For a movie so deeply focused on sound, there’s a bit of an arrhythmia to A Quiet Place: Day One. Michael Sarnoski directs his own screenplay, dabbling within ...

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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