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Cannes Review: Adèle Haenel Narrates a Damning Tale of Post-WWII French History in Returning to Reims

The MIT Press describes Didier Eribon's book Returning to Reims as "a memoir and meditation on individual and class identity, and the forces that keep us locke...

Cannes Review: Are You Lonesome Tonight? Takes a Disorienting, Methodical Trip Through a Nightmarish World

Xue Ming (Eddie Peng) is in jail when we meet him. He's talking about the boredom of living the same day repeatedly while thinking about how he got there. Deci...

New Details on Jean-Luc Godard’s Next, Possibly Final Films

It was, of course, a shock to the cinematic system that Jean-Luc Godard—let's see... film's single most important living figure?—would retire after the complet...

Cannes Review: kogonada’s After Yang Has Its Heart In the Right Place, If Little Else

The premise of After Yang might require a mild digestif. A work of speculative science fiction from the video-essayist-turned-director kogonada, it concerns th...

Cannes Review: Benedetta Finds Paul Verhoeven Once Again Delightfully Needling Ideas of Good Taste

Many of the best qualities of early and late Verhoeven combine in Benedetta, a tale of sex, blood, and sacrilege in 17th-century Italy. Based on the American h...

The Witches of the Orient Director Julien Faraut Discusses Reinventing the Sports Documentary at Sheffield Docs

As Sheffield Doc Fest wrapped its first online edition, we spoke with one of the most promising filmmakers to emerge from that discipline in recent years. With...

Cannes Review: The Worst Person in the World is a Funny, Observant, and Romantic Look at Millennial Culture

There’s a bravura scene in Joachim Trier’s funny, sexy, and intelligent new rom-com The Worst Person in the World where time stops dead. Its millennial protago...

Cannes Review: The Souvenir Part II is a Daring, Confounding Meta Experiment from Joanna Hogg

At the end of The Souvenir, Joanna Hogg filmed a film in the process of being made. She returns with The Souvenir Part II, a film all about filmmaking and its ...

Cannes Review: Lingui, the Sacred Bonds Tells a Female-Led Tale of Perseverance and Hope in Chad

In Chad, whose two main languages are Arabic and French, "lingui" is a distinct term meaning a "bond or connection"; the film’s alternate title gives it a more...

New to Streaming: Year of the Horse, Blue, Barb and Star, Shiva Baby & 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...

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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