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Air Doll Review: Hirokazu Kore-eda’s Achingly Human Sex Doll Fable Finally Receives a U.S. Release

Despite coming from one of international cinema’s foremost working filmmakers, Hirokazu Kore-eda’s 2009 film Air Doll had never seen a release in the U.S. Adap...

Will Lovelace and Dylan Southern on the Magic of NYC, the Indie Music Landscape, and Making Meet Me in the Bathroom

Adapting Lizzy Goodman's novel of the same name, Will Lovelace and Dylan Southern’s Meet Me in the Bathroom captures the essence of late-90s, early-2000s New Y...

Lingui, The Sacred Bonds Director Mahamat-Saleh Haroun on Seven Favorite Films

The Chad-born, France-based Mahamat-Saleh Haroun debuted his latest drama, Lingui, The Sacred Bonds, in competition at the Cannes Film Festival last summer. A ...

Sincerity & Spite: A Conversation with the Directors & Star of Hannah Ha Ha

Directors Jordan Tetewsky and Joshua Pikovsky are two of the hardest-working young artists in the U.S. Each of their three short films from 2021––the Jewish an...

Posterized February 2022: The Worst Person in the World, Friends and Strangers, The Sky Is Everywhere & More

A couple of studios rightfully got nervous about the increased COVID numbers over the holidays and moved their marquee titles away from the wintry mont...

Exclusive Trailer for the Striking Servants Captures Rebellion in Communist Czechoslovakia

One of the most visually striking dramas I've recently seen out of New Directors/New Films is Ivan Ostrochovsky's Servants, which initially made its debut at t...

Watch Ryusuke Hamaguchi & Isabelle Huppert Discuss the Language of Cinema in 75-Minute Talk

Not only did Ryusuke Hamaguchi craft two of the greatest films of last year with Drive My Car and Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy, but the rising Japanese master ...

First Clips and Plot Details for Bertrand Bonello’s Coma, Premiering at Berlinale

Update: See the first clips below. Earlier last year it was announced Bertrand Bonello would be embarking on the ambitious sci-fi melodrama La Bête&nbs...

SXSW 2022 Lineup Includes Films by Richard Linklater, Ti West, Gillian Jacobs & More

This year's South by Southwest Film Festival, taking place March 11-20 in-person with select films available online, has unveiled its lineup. With 99 features,...

15 Films to See in February

With Sundance now wrapped up, this month we turn our sights on Berlinale and a number of notable releases arriving both theatrically and digitally. From intern...

News

Locarno Film Festival Unveils 2026 Lineup

Eleanor Coppola’s Documentary on the Making of Sofia Coppola’s Marie Antoinette Is Coming Soon

David Chase Sets LSD Film; New Updates on Quentin Tarantino, Wes Anderson, David Lowery, and Sacha Baron Cohen Projects

Trailers

Filipiñana Trailer: Rafael Manuel’s Jia Zhangke-Backed Sundance Winner Opens This August

Domhnall Gleeson Encounters a Strange Land In First Trailer for The Incomer

Tony Gilroy Returns in First Trailer for Behemoth!

Reviews

The Kidnapping of Arabella Review: Offbeat Italian Road Trip Comedy

Night Nurse Review: A Perverse, Seductive Thriller

Barrio Triste Review: One of the Year’s Great Debuts

Features

NYC Weekend Watch: The Hole, Electronica, Gakuryu Ishii, Nicholas Ray & More

The Best Movies Now Playing in Theaters

New to Streaming: The Furious, City Wide Fever, Amores Perros, Camp & More

Interviews

Tsai Ming-liang on the Personal Inspiration of The Hole, Constant Evolution, and His Next Films

“How Do You Make a Contemporary Erotic Thriller”: Georgia Bernstein on Night Nurse and Catherine Breillat

David Wain on the Hard Work of Making Dumb Jokes

Podcasts

Yasmina Tawil on Progamming Hou Hsiao-hsien, David Fincher, Tom Tykwer & More for BAM’s Electronica Series

The B-Sides of Julia Roberts with Joe Reid

The B-Sides of Steven Spielberg with Bilge Ebiri

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