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First Teaser and Poster for Karim Aïnouz’s Cannes Premiere Motel Destino

With Cannes Film Festival now officially underway and reviews coming in, we're also getting new looks at some of our most-anticipated premieres. The Invisible ...

Cannes Review: Ghost Trail is an Engrossing Surveillance Thriller Haunted by the Syrian War

The wars in Gaza and Ukraine have dominated headlines for the past several years, yet receiving relatively little coverage today is the Syrian civil war, spark...

Cannes Review: Quentin Dupieux Brings Gallows Humor to Filmmaking Satire The Second Act

Quentin Dupieux returns with The Second Act, a playfully dour satire on the film industry that sees the French absurdist delve further into the apocalyptic moo...

Arnaud Desplechin and Mathieu Amalric Salute Cinema In First Trailer for Cannes Debut Filmlovers!

I'm possibly embargoed from speaking too much about Arnaud Desplechin's Spectateurs! / Filmlovers!, which debuts at the Cannes Film Festival on May 22, but suf...

Amnesiascope Presents a Rare Jean-Luc Godard Film at the Brooklyn Center for Theatre Research on May 28

Update: By popular demand, an encore screening's been added for Wednesday, May 29. See the original story below. My screening series Amnesiascope will have ...

New Details Emerge on Richard Linklater’s Nouvelle Vague, “The Story of a Personal Revolution In Cinema”

First look notwithstanding, details have been few and far between on Richard Linklater's Nouvelle Vague, largely understood to concern the production of Jean-L...

National Anthem Trailer: Charlie Plummer Searches for the American Dream in Queer Drama

After exploring the American frontier in Andrew Haigh's Lean on Pete, Charlie Plummer returns to the terrain with Luke Gilford's directorial debut National Ant...

John Wilson on Viewing Habits, Burning Man Regrets, and Life After How To…

What kind of things does an obsessive documentarian like to watch in their free time? It's a question I was curious to ask John Wilson, a filmmaker who––over t...

Recommended New Books on Filmmaking: Scarface, Quentin Tarantino, Dune: Exposures, Candy Darling & More

Our latest look at new and recent books about (or connected to) cinema includes looks at a couple beloved classics (Scarface and The Blues Brothers), a unique ...

Dìdi (弟弟) Trailer: Sean Wang’s Sundance Winner Arrives in July

It wouldn’t have been Sundance without at least a handful of coming-of-age stories. Sean Wang’s audience award winner Dìdi (弟弟) proves that, with a n...

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

Five Highlights from the 2024 Tokyo International Film Festival

The Best Movies Now Playing in Theaters

Tokyo International Film Festival Artistic Director Ichiyama Shôzô Offers Insight Into a Growing Organization

Interviews

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

“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

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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