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U.S. Trailer for Singapore’s Oscar Entry Wet Season Brings Rain-Soaked Melodrama

A highlight on the festival circuit back in 2019, Anthony Chen's Singaporean melodrama Wet Season––which was also the country's Oscar entry––will finally arriv...

SXSW Review: Lily Topples the World is a Joyous Exploration of a Domino Artist

One of the tools of the trade that 22-year-old domino artist Lily Hevesh shares with a group of families at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute is the importance ...

SXSW Review: WeWork: Or the Making and Breaking of a $47 Billion Unicorn Explores the Dark Side of Disruptive Innovation

Many companies these days throw around terms like “innovation," “digital transformation,” and “entrepreneurial culture” without actually doing anything unique,...

SXSW Review: The Charli XCX Documentary Alone Together Feels Like an Afterthought Strictly for Fans

It's a shame pop musician Charli XCX wasn’t quarantined with anyone with formal film training during the pandemic. Alone Together, her debut feature as co-cine...

Exterminate All the Brutes Trailer: I Am Not Your Negro Director Raoul Peck Returns with HBO Series

Following up his extraordinary, Oscar-nominated James Baldwin documentary I Am Not Your Negro, director Raoul Peck is returning with an ambitious, four-part se...

Shoplifters of the World Review: Helena Howard and Ellar Coltrane Embark on a Music-Filled Journey of Self-Discovery

The Smiths are dead. That's the news Cleo (Helena Howard) punctuates with a scream loud enough to wake everyone in Denver, Colorado but her own passed out drun...

Rick Alverson and Lisandro Alonso to Co-Direct New Feature The God Beside My Bed

Two of the most distinctive voices in filmmaking are teaming for a new project. American director Rick Alverson (The Comedy, Entertainment, The Mountain) and A...

SXSW Review: Udo Kier is Radiant in Swan Song, a Moving Ode to a Sandusky Legend

Completing his planned trilogy about gay life in Sandusky, Ohio––a town known by most outsiders as the setting for Chris Farley’s Tommy Boy and the home of amu...

Exclusive Re-Release Trailer for Claire Denis’ Enigmatic Masterpiece L’intrus

With Claire Denis recently wrapping her next film, the star-studded Fire, it's an opportune time to catch up with her greatest––and perhaps most under-seen––wo...

Takashi Miike Returns With First Trailer for Fantasy Epic The Great Yokai War: Guardians

With over one-hundred credits to his directorial resume, Takashi Miike is showing no signs of slowing down. After First Love made a bit of a splash, the prolif...

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

Oh, Canada Trailer: Richard Gere Reflects on His Life in Paul Schrader’s Poignant Drama

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

Reviews

Riga Review: Dreamy Stereoscopic 3D Folk Tale Twittering Soul is One of a Kind

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

Features

Five Highlights from the 2024 Tokyo International Film Festival

The Best Movies Now Playing in Theaters

Tokyo International Film Festival Artistic Director Ichiyama Shôzô Offers Insight Into a Growing Organization

Interviews

NYC Weekend Watch: Ken Kelsch, Il Grido, Flesh for Frankenstein 3D & More

“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

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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