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Cannes Review: Savages is a Beautiful Stop-Motion Animation Exploring the Complexities of Modernity

Eight years after My Life as a Zucchini premiered in Directors' Fortnight en route to winning two Césars (and nabbing one Oscar nomination), Swiss director Cla...

Exclusive Restoration Trailer for Belarusian Folk-Horror The Savage Hunt of King Stakh

Summer time is approaching, which means it is, of course, Belarusian folk-horror season. As part of Deaf Crocodile Films' new collaboration with DiabolikD...

The B-Side – Martin Scorsese (with Jake Kring-Schreifels)

Welcome to The B-Side, from The Film Stage. Here we talk about movie directors! Not the movies that made them famous or kept them famous, but the ones that the...

The Film Stage Show Ep. 539 – Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga (with Sam Cohen)

Welcome to a new episode of The Film Stage Show! Brian Roan and Robyn Bahr are joined by Sam Cohen to discuss George Miller's Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga. Enter...

Cannes Review: Black Dog is a Supremely Intelligent and Heartfelt Story of Human-Animal Friendship

In the derelict, scraggly city in northwest China where Guan Hu’s Black Dog is set, human life has all but disappeared and canines have replaced their masters....

Catherine Breillat Returns In U.S. Trailer for Last Summer

A little silly to say about a movie that premiered in competition at Cannes and had the much-desired fall-festival run, but there should've been a little more ...

Jia Zhangke’s Editor Matthieu Laclau on Shaping Decades of Footage and His Trio of Cannes 2024 Premieres

Matthieu Laclau is a French editor who has been working in China and Taiwan since 2008. His collaboration with director Jia Zhangke in A Touch of Sin won him B...

Saoirse Ronan Rebuilds Her Life in First Trailer for The Outrun

Although peculiarly still without U.S. distribution some five months after its Sundance premiere, Nora Fingscheidt's addiction drama The Outrun, starring Saoir...

Ezra Review: An Honest Family Portrait With Some Third-Act Troubles

Let's start here: watching Bobby Cannavale and Robert De Niro argue on a New York City street while cars angrily beep their horns is electric. Truly exhilarati...

First Trailer for Leos Carax’s It’s Not Me Goes Inside the Mind of a Visionary

Returning to the Cannes Film Festival after Annette, Leos Carax premiered his 40-minute cinematic self-portrait It's Not Me. Thankfully snapped up by Sideshow ...

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

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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