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Locarno Review: Human Flowers of Flesh is an Entrancing Journey Through Film and Sea

Early into Helena Wittmann’s 2017 feature debut, Drift, a character recounts a Papua New Guinean tale of the world’s creation. Back when the planet was all wat...

Locarno Review: Alexander Sokurov’s Fairytale Imagines a Surreal, Staid Purgatorial Journey

All through Fairytale (aka Skazka), characters recite the opening of the Divine Comedy and Dante’s preamble to his plunge into hell. But the black-and-white wo...

U.S. Trailer for Kirill Serebrennikov’s Petrov’s Flu Takes Hallucinatory Trip Through Post-Soviet Russia

Russian director Kirill Serebrennikov has been invited to back-to-back Cannes for his latest work, premiering Petrov's Flu last year and Tchaikovsky's Wife thi...

Claydream Review: A Tale of Animation History, Art, and Commerce

There's intent in a brief snippet from an archival interview with Travis Knight. He's asked about getting the animation bug at Laika, of which he's co-owner wi...

New to Streaming: Prey, Resurrection, Licorice Pizza, Blue Island & 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...

Laura Poitras’ All the Beauty and the Bloodshed Selected as Centerpiece of 60th New York Film Festival

In a rare occurrence, a documentary feature has been deemed the Centerpiece selection at the New York Film Festival, with Laura Poitras’s All the Beauty and th...

Jeff Nichols to Direct Tom Hardy, Jodie Comer & Austin Butler in The Bikeriders

Update: Michael Shannon, Boyd Holbrook, and Damon Herriman have also joined the ensemble, Deadline reports. See the original story below. After a prolific s...

Posterized August 2022: Funny Pages, El Gran Movimiento, Free Chol Soo Lee & More

It's a quiet month for studio blockbusters. Sony has Bullet Train (August 5) and The Invitation (August 26); Universal has Beast (August 19). Not to sp...

NYC Weekend Watch: King Vidor, Warhol, Cold Water, 70mm & More

NYC Weekend Watch is our weekly round-up of repertory offerings. Film at Lincoln Center As a restoration of Three Colors: White begins its run, a massive...

The Banshees of Inisherin Trailer: Martin McDonagh Reunites with Colin Farrell & Brendan Gleeson

After Seven Psychopaths and Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri brought him to America to a divisive reaction, British-Irish filmmaker Martin McDonagh re...

News

Japan Cuts Announces 2026 Slate Featuring Hirokazu Kore-eda, Gakuryu Ishii, Yoji Yamada & More

Alice Rohrwacher to Direct The Baron in the Trees; Next Film to Be Primarily Silent

Cristian Mungiu’s Fjord Wins Palme d’Or: See Full List of Cannes 2026 Winners

Trailers

Exclusive Trailer for Greg Vrotsos’ Feature Debut Situations Follows a Journey of Love and Ambition in Los Angeles

I Want Your Sex Trailer: Gregg Araki Returns with Olivia Wilde and Cooper Hoffman

Reviews

Tribeca Review: Here I’m Alive Is a Raw, Intimate Look at Messy New York Lives

I Am Frankelda Review: Mexico’s First Stop-Motion Feature Speaks Truth to Power

The Gas Station Attendant Review: A Compelling If Formally Unsure Immigrant Story

Features

The Film Stage’s 2026 Tribeca Festival Portrait Gallery

NYC Weekend Watch: Italian History, Universal Westerns, Black Cops & More

Posterized June 2026: Maddie’s Secret, The Furious, Drunken Noodles & More

Interviews

“The Hard Work Is In the Screenwriting”: John Sayles on Resourceful Filmmaking, James Cameron, and His TIFF Retrospective

The Currents Director Milagros Mumenthaler on Sensory Filmmaking, Motherhood, and Capturing an Internal State

“Making Movies Should Be a Pleasure”: Olivier Assayas on The Wizard of the Kremlin

Podcasts

The B-Sides of Goldie Hawn with Jen Johans

The B-Sides of Laurence Fishburne with Mitchell Beaupre

The B-Sides of Eddie Murphy with Nicholas Gray and Alvin Keith

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