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“Films Can’t Fix Lives”: Arnaud Desplechin on Filmlovers!, The Fabelmans, and Jean-Luc Godard

When it was announced Arnaud Desplechin's next feature Spectateurs! (titled the less-appealing Filmlovers! in English) would be a) a docu-fiction hybrid; b) ab...

Cannes Review: Universal Language is a Beguiling, Surrealist Ode to Persian Cinema

In Universal Language, a man makes a journey to his childhood home and meets the family now living there––these are at least the broad strokes. The director is...

Cannes Review: The Surfer Knows Exactly What to Do with Nicolas Cage

In The Surfer, an exploitation film set to pressure-cook, a mild-mannered man is pitted against a group who even Andrew Tate might find a touch extreme. It's s...

Cannes Review: Sean Baker’s Anora is a Devastating, Gut-Busting Beauty

Up to this point, Mikey Madison––the fearless, explosive 27-year-old lead of Sean Baker’s Anora––is best-known for her chilling turn as the deranged killer in ...

An Anime Landmark Returns In Trailer for Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence‘s 4K Restoration

It's opportune timing for a 4K restoration of Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence, the only anime feature to debut in competition at the Cannes Film Festival. The ...

First Footage From Leos Carax’s It’s Not Me Reflects on a Visionary Career

Aside from Jean-Luc Godard's last film, one of the shortest premieres at the Cannes Film Festival that was among our most-anticipated is Leos Carax's 40-minute...

Cannes Review: The Hyperboreans is Cristóbal León and Joaquín Cociña’s Warning Against Political Amnesia

“We humans are capable of greatness,” reads the first line in Cristóbal León and Joaquín Cociña’s The Hyperboreans as the narrator’s voice beams from an old TV...

The Film Stage Show Classic – Field of Dreams (with Noah Gittell)

Welcome to a new episode of The Film Stage Show! Brian Roan and Robyn Bahr discuss Field of Dreams (now streaming on Prime Video) in a special Classic episode ...

Cannes Review: To a Land Unknown Tells a Bitter Poem of Palestinian Exile

The tragic predicament of the Palestinians and what they’re now being subjected to begs to be analyzed and dissected, with various areas of dubious historical ...

Cannes Review: The Shrouds is a Low-Key Chiller from David Cronenberg

David Cronenberg's films have often imagined a future where technology would find a way into our collective id. 55 years into the director's incomparable caree...

News

David Fincher’s Remastered Se7en Comes to IMAX to Kick Off 2025

Criterion Collection’s February 2025 Lineup Features Paul Thomas Anderson, Jean-Luc Godard, Crossing Delancey & More

Exclusive: New Restoration of Queer Drama By Hook or By Crook Acquired by Altered Innocence for Spring 2025 Release

Trailers

Nicole Kidman and Harris Dickinson Find Pleasure in New Trailer for Babygirl

Pamela Anderson is The Last Showgirl in First Trailer for Gia Coppola’s Drama

Exclusive U.S. Trailer for Endless Summer Syndrome Unveils Provocative French Drama

Reviews

Allen Sunshine Review: A Tranquil Debut Feature with a World of Feeling

Gladiator II Review: Ridley Scott’s Sequel Bests Predecessor By Going Dumb

Riga Review: Dreamy Stereoscopic 3D Folk Tale Twittering Soul is One of a Kind

Features

Appreciating a Pioneer: Pittsburgh Celebrates Queer Local Filmmaker Roger Jacoby with World Premiere Restorations

New to Streaming: Megalopolis, Rumours, Look Into My Eyes, An Almost Christmas Story, and More

NYC Weekend Watch: The Limits of Control, Ealing Studios & More

Interviews

Payal Kapadia on All We Imagine as Light, Impermanence, Magical Realism, and Trilogy Plans

Barry Keoghan on Young Fatherhood, Loving La La Land, and the Movement of Andrea Arnold’s Bird

NYC Weekend Watch: Ken Kelsch, Il Grido, Flesh for Frankenstein 3D & More

Podcasts

The B-Side – Gwyneth Paltrow (with Cory Everett)

The B-Side – Vincent Price (with Gavin Mevius)

The B-Side – Tim Burton (with Maria Lewis)

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