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Akira Kurosawa’s Seven Samurai Receives 4K Restoration; Watch the New Trailer

Holding off on my first Seven Samurai watch since 9th grade proved wise. A 4K restoration overseen by Toho Co. Ltd. will arrive stateside next month courtesy J...

Exclusive Trailer for Tribeca Premiere Emergent City Chronicles a Changing Brooklyn

Any major change or innovation in a large area of a city usually means a certain population is getting left in the dust. World premiering at Tribeca Festival o...

The Watchers Review: Ishana Night Shyamalan’s Debut is Competent but Uninspired Folk Horror

If anything could revive the worn-out nepotism discourse, it would be this summer's horror offerings. In August we have M. Night Shyamalan's upcoming thriller,...

Wes Anderson’s The Phoenician Scheme Adds Scarlett Johansson, Tom Hanks, Willem Dafoe, Benedict Cumberbatch, Charlotte Gainsbourg & More

Newly minted Oscar winner Wes Anderson has now wrapped production on his next feature, The Phoenician Scheme, in Germany. We've known the story of a family and...

Exclusive Trailer for Hummingbirds: Berlinale Winner is a Vibrant Coming-of-Age Self-Portrait

A vibrant coming-of-age documentary and winner of the Berlinale Generation Grand Jury Prize, Silvia Del Carmen Castaños and Estefanía "Beba" Contreras' Humming...

This Closeness Review: Kit Zauhar’s Relationship Drama Hits Close to Home

It’s true that This Closeness, by rising writer-director-star Kit Zauhar, may be too small in scale for some. But a recent trip to New York where this writer s...

Watch David Lynch’s Music Video for “Sublime Eternal Love” Ahead of New Album Cellophane Memories

God bless everyone who truly thought David Lynch announcing "something for you to see and hear" portended a fourth season of Twin Peaks or new feature. I long ...

Tuesday Review: Julia Louis-Dreyfus is Brilliant in Flawed, Effective Fairy Tale About Death

If you're quirk-averse, you might be immediately put off by a cursory description of Daina Oniunas-Pusić's debut feature, Tuesday, in which Julia Louis-Dreyfus...

The Small Back Room Restoration Trailer: An Underseen Powell & Pressburger Gem Returns to Theaters

It's been decades since they've passed, but this summer is shaping up to be the season of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger. Alongside MoMA's massive retro...

Japan Cuts 2024 Includes Films by Hideaki Anno, Takeshi Kitano, Shinya Tsukamoto, Shinji Somai & More

Comprising international premieres, short programs, and some of the country's finest-ever films in new restorations, 2024's Japan Cuts––running July 10-21 at N...

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

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

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

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

The Best Movies Now Playing in Theaters

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

Interviews

“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

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

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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