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NYFF Review: Haruhara-san’s Recorder is Compelling in Theory, But Not Execution

The concept behind Kyoshi Sugita’s Haruhara-san’s Recorder is resembling the structure of the Naoko Higashi poem on which it's based. Said poem, a tanka, is in...

NYFF Review: Outside Noise is a Lo-Fi Independent Meditation

Ted Fendt’s Outside Noise is largely noiseless. Without background music, following the lives of three women traveling back and forth between Vienna and Berlin...

Come Play With Vidiots and The Film Stage for Cinephile Game Night’s October 2021 Show

Watch a replay of the show below. https://twitter.com/TheFilmStage/status/1450628833766514689 We’re excited to announce that Cinephile Game Night will ...

The Film Stage Show Ep. 446 – The Many Saints of Newark (with Dan Fienberg)

Welcome, one and all, to the latest episode of The Film Stage Show! Today, Brian Roan, Bill Graham, and Robyn Bahr are joined by Dan Fienberg to discuss Alan T...

South of Heaven Review: Jason Sudeikis is a Felon on a Desperate Path in Uneven Crime Drama

Jimmy Ray (Jason Sudeikis) is 12 years into a 15-year prison stint for armed robbery. He pled guilty, so there's no "you got the wrong guy" play up his sleeve ...

Busan Review: Im Sang-soo’s Heaven: To the Land of Happiness is an Entertaining, If Formulaic Odd Couple Comedy

In summer 2020, faced with the unenviable choice between canceling and going virtual—which was never really an option, given its longstanding anti-streaming st...

Cyrano Trailer: Joe Wright, The National, and Peter Dinklage Team for Musical Adaptation

Ryusuke Hamaguchi, Hong Sangsoo, Zack Snyder, and Edgar Wright aren't the only directors with two films arriving this year. Joe Wright, whose delayed drama The...

Exclusive Trailer for Joshua Bonnetta’s The Two Sights Takes a Hypnotic Trip to the Outer Hebrides

Following screenings at the Berlin International Film Festival, Art of the Real, Cinéma du Réel, and more, Cinema Guild will release Joshua Bonnetta’s hypnotic...

First Trailer for Sean Baker’s Red Rocket Finds Simon Rex Seeking Redemption

In what will surely be his most divisive––and in my opinion, best––film, Sean Baker is back with Red Rocket. Giving one of the year's finest performances, Simo...

Joshua Oppenheimer to Direct Tilda Swinton in a “Golden-Age Musical” About the End of the World

Never say the business of filmmaking is predictable. Following up his two staggering, bleak documentaries The Act of Killing and The Look of Silence, director ...

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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