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Cannes Review: Ryusuke Hamaguchi Delivers Again with Soothing Murakami Epic Drive My Car

It seemed inevitable that Haruki Murakami’s prose would find a way into the films of Ryusuke Hamaguchi. The director returns with Drive My Car, based on Muraka...

Pablo Larraín’s Spencer Set for Venice Premiere as Red Band Trailer for Ema Arrives

Pablo Larraín is gearing up for a major second half of 2021. At long last, his dance/relationship drama Ema will arrive next month (more on that later) and the...

Jacques Audiard Returns with First Trailer for Cannes Premiere Paris, 13th District

After jumping into English-language work with the star-studded western The Sisters Brothers, Jacques Audiard is returning to his native country with a new dram...

River Review: A Rocky Supernatural Thriller Adds Extraneous Mystery

Her mother (Becki Hayes' Lois) has lived in this town her whole life and River Allen (Mary Cameron Rogers) knows she'd willing suffer the same fate unless she ...

Cannes Review: The French Dispatch is a Pleasurable Giddy Rush of Wes Anderson Delights

Scope around certain movie sites or Film Twitter and you may find reference to a slated upcoming DC comics adaptation title Justice League Dark—Guillermo del T...

Cannes Review: Evolution Falters But Shows Promise for Kornél Mundruczó

A triptych of interconnected stories form Evolution, which begins at the end of the liberation of Auschwitz, in 1945, skips forward to an apartment in Budapest...

U.S. Trailer for Eyimofe (This Is My Desire) Gives Stunning Vision of Nigeria

Yet another Berlin 2020 title finally making its way to the world, Eyimofe (This Is My Desire) arrives with some lofty expectations—it is, after all, a Ja...

Léa Seydoux Hits Crisis Point in Trailer for Bruno Dumont’s Cannes Selection France

It is, knowing Bruno Dumont, almost certainly a joke to have the premiere French actress of our time play a crisis-stricken character named France, but I don't...

U.S. Trailer for Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s Memoria Arrives with a Bang

Some years since Cemetery of Splendour has Apichatpong Weerasethakul returned, this time under two unusual conditions: in English and with a movie star before ...

Cannes Review: Flag Day is Another Voiceover-Laden Weepie From Sean Penn

Whatever else you might want to say about Flag Day, there’s no denying it’s a personal piece of filmmaking, a large factor in its actor-director’s perennial pr...

News

Metrograph Launches Print Publication with Inaugural Issue Featuring Ryusuke Hamaguchi, Clint Eastwood, Ari Aster & More

Léa Seydoux, Lee Kang-sheng, Margaret Qualley, Steven Yeun, Natalie Portman, Armie Hammer & More Set Next Roles

Exclusive: Paul Schrader’s Next Films Involve a Pederast Professor and a Wall Street-Set Erotic Thriller

Trailers

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

Steven Soderbergh Tells a Ghost Story in New Trailer for Presence

Exclusive Trailer for Jōhatsu, a Lithuanian Thriller Exploring a Japanese Phenomenon

Reviews

Juror #2 Review: Courtroom Thriller Represents the Best from Clint Eastwood’s Late Era

The Graduates Review: A Melancholic Look at a Community Bonded by Tragedy

AFI Fest Review: Robert Zemeckis’ Here Plays Like the Anti-Boyhood

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

“Nobody Ever Gave Me Anything”: Alan Rudolph on Robert Altman, Bruce Willis, Kurt Vonnegut, and Resurrecting Breakfast of Champions

Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat Director Johan Grimonprez on a Jazz-Fueled, Kaleidoscopic Vision of Displaced Blackness

The Making of the Indian Sci-Fi Box-Office Sensation Kalki 2898 AD

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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