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Cannes Review: All We Imagine as Light is a Drama of Profound Beauty

“Everyone has at least one person in Mumbai.” “There’s work and money in Mumbai. Who would want to go back?” “You better get used to the impermanence.” Like po...

Watch Two Exclusive Clips from The All Golden, Playing Wednesday at the Roxy Cinema

When friend and Film Stage contributor Ethan Vestby suggested I watch Nate Wilson's The All Golden, I did so with no expectations of what might follow. My enth...

Cannes Review: Misericordia is a Galvanizing Ode to the Power and Subversiveness of Desire

In a career spanning four decades and eight features, Alain Guiraudie has cemented himself as one of our most astute chroniclers of desire. If there’s any leit...

The Best Films of the 2024 Cannes Film Festival

The 76th edition of the Cannes Film Festival has now concluded, with Sean Baker's Anora taking home the Palme d'Or. While our coverage will continue with a few...

Cannes Review: It’s Not Me Finds Leos Carax Reflecting on 40 Years of Filmmaking with No Nostalgia

Headlines read, "Leos Carax Bring Back Baby Annette to the Croisette," but this is only half the truth. Yes, the legendary puppet makes a comeback in C’est Pas...

Cannes Review: Filmlovers! is Arnaud Desplechin’s Refined Ode to Cinema

For his tenth Cannes feature premiere, Arnaud Desplechin chose to present a docu-fictional love letter to cinema. Two years after Brother and Sister was in Com...

Cannes Review: The Balconettes is Noémie Merlant’s Self-Assured Take on Comedy-Horror

The chic balconies of Marseille certainly offer an image that is photogenic enough to open Noémie Merlant’s sophomore feature, The Balconettes, especially as s...

Cannes Review: Motel Destino is a Noirish Fever Dream that Sparkles with Sweat and Lust

Simply put, Brazilian motels are places for people to have sex. Everyone knows it, no one objects to it. You pay by the hour and the suite is yours––a big bed,...

Cannes Review: Grand Tour Marks an Enchanting Return for Miguel Gomes

If Chris Marker and Preston Sturges ever made a film together, it might have looked something like Grand Tour, a sweeping tale that moves from Rangoon to Manil...

NYC Weekend Watch: Cutter’s Way, Princess Mononoke, Jacques Rivette, & More

NYC Weekend Watch is our weekly round-up of repertory offerings. Film ForumFilms by Scorsese, De Palma, Woody Allen, Coppola, Jarmusch, ...

News

Exclusive: Paul Schrader’s Next Films Involve a Pederast Professor and a Wall Street-Set Erotic Thriller

2024 Gotham Awards Nominations Unveiled

Yokohama BJ Blues Makes U.S. Theatrical Premiere on November 11 from Amnesiascope

Trailers

First Trailer for Luca Guadagnino’s Queer Follows Daniel Craig Searching for a High

Ride a Dreamlike Musical Carousel in Exclusive Trailer for Signe Birkova’s Lotus, Partly Shot on a 1920s Camera

Raoul Peck Investigates a Photographer Pioneer in First Trailer for Ernest Cole: Lost and Found

Reviews

The Graduates Review: A Melancholic Look at a Community Bonded by Tragedy

AFI Fest Review: Robert Zemeckis’ Here Plays Like the Anti-Boyhood

AFI Fest Review: My Favourite Cake Finds an Autumnal Romance Blooming Under Iranian Authoritarianism

Features

Tony Leung, Johnnie To, and Chiara Mastroianni Talk Cinema’s Future as the 2024 Tokyo International Film Festival Begins

New to Streaming: Trap, One False Move, Rap World, Daaaaaalí!, The Remarkable Life of Ibelin & More

NYC Weekend Watch: Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors, Candy Mountain, Chantal Akerman, Azazel Jacobs & More

Interviews

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

“100 Clichés Move Us”: Rumours Directors Guy Maddin, Evan Johnson & Galen Johnson on Finding Humor in a World in Crisis

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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