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NYC Weekend Watch: Bob Dylan, The Ladykillers, In the Mood For Love & More

After a hiatus as theaters in New York City and beyond closed their doors during the pandemic, we're delighted to announce the return of NYC Weekend Watch, our...

Demonic Trailer: Neill Blomkamp Returns with Pandemic-Shot Horror Film

After following up District 9 will the large-scale sci-fi tentpole Elysium, Neill Blomkamp slightly lessened his scope with Chappie. Now, for his next feature,...

Christian Petzold on the Liquid Mood of Undine, Ideal Sex Scenes, and the Visconti Approach

Few filmmakers enliven conversation more than Christian Petzold, whose approach to any question—be it transposing narrative and philosophical tenets between na...

Slow Machine Review: Lo-Fi Genre-Buster Delivers a Cinematic Jolt

It’s rare that a new American film feels genuinely alive with possibility from beginning to end. So many of the logistical, economic, and technological decisio...

Bad Tales Review: A Grotesque Italian Fresco of Suburban Teenhood

Amid the litany of horrors the biting little film Bad Tales presents, there might be a pinnacle: reading out your middle-school report card to a dining table o...

2021 Cannes Film Festival Lineup Unveiled

At long last, the Cannes Film Festival returns this July. While it remains to be seen just how many journalists outside France will actually be able to attend,...

First Trailer for Anthony Bourdain Documentary Roadrunner Explores the Life of the Late Cultural Icon

After exploring the lives of Orson Welles, Fred Rogers, and the world's greatest backup singers, Oscar-winning director Morgan Neville's next documentary is ce...

Pedro Almodóvar Unveils First Images and Behind-the-Scenes Video From Madres Paralelas Starring Penélope Cruz

After earning some of the most acclaim in his career for the semi-autobiographical tale Pain & Glory, Spanish master Pedro Almodóvar adapted to the pandemi...

First Trailer for Mamoru Hosoda’s Belle Embarks on a Journey Through a Virtual Landscape

One of our most-anticipated animations of the year comes from Mamoru Hosoda, the acclaimed auteur behind The Girl Who Leapt Through Time, Wolf Children, The Bo...

Gaia Trailer: The First Acquisition From DECAL, NEON and Bleecker Street’s New Venture, Arrives This Month

One of the most intriguing developments in the world of indie film the past few months has been the formation of DECAL, a distribution company that marks a joi...

News

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

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

Trailers

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

Steven Soderbergh Tells a Ghost Story in New Trailer for Presence

Reviews

AFI Review: Vermiglio Paints a Lyrical Portrait of Desires Constrained by Catholicism

Paddington in Peru Review: Threequel Fails to Climb to Franchise Heights

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

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

“Less Money, More Liberty”: Paulo Branco on a Cinematic Life with David Cronenberg, Manoel De Oliveira, and Raúl Ruiz

“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

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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