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Recommended New Books on Filmmaking: David Cronenberg, Tobe Hooper, Goodbye, Dragon Inn, Monte Hellman & More

Filmmaking-related books released in the last few months cover a head-spinningly vast collection of topics and directors. Our latest swim in the literary water...

ND/NF Review: Rock Bottom Riser Fascinatingly Explores Humanity’s Self-Destructive Relationship with Nature

Images of slowly cascading liquids and particles are pivotal to Rock Bottom Riser, an experimental documentary that covers subjects as far-reaching as nautical...

ND/NF Review: Bipolar is a Disorienting Road Movie with the Off-Kilter Vibe of Early Jarmusch

Queena Li’s Bipolar embraces the quirky uncertainties and randomness of a road movie like few other recent films. Initially, the jarring jumps in logic and tim...

David Cronenberg Returns to Crimes Of The Future as Summer Shoot is Set for His Next Film

Update #2: Production has begun on the film, with Tanaya Beatty, Nadia Litz, and Yorgos Karamichos joining the cast, Deadline reports. “As we begin filming Cri...

Orson Welles Recounts Timely History in Exclusive Restoration Trailer for New Deal for Artists

Orson Welles thankfully didn't live to see a world in which conversation around his work has devolved into Tomatometer-related banter, but as an extensive sear...

U.S. Trailer for Jia Zhangke’s Swimming Out Till the Sea Turns Blue Charts a Changing China

Returning to documentary feature filmmaking for the first time since 2010's I Wish I Knew, Jia Zhangke's Swimming Out Till the Sea Turns Blue charts a changing...

Here Are the Young Men Review: Stylistic Teen Debauchery Run Amok

Mixing together the debauchery of Trainspotting with the youthful disaffection of Skins (the British version, of course), director Eoin Macken’s film Here Are ...

40 Films to See This Summer

Considering how dire last summer was for theatrical exhibition and the perpetually-in-flux release calendar, we opted to forgo our standard preview of the seas...

U.S. Trailer for Mohammad Rasoulof’s Golden Bear Winner There Is No Evil

While Radu Jude took home the Golden Bear at this year's Berlin Film Festival, last year's winner––Mohammad Rasoulof's There Is No Evil–– will finally get a re...

Cinephile Game Night’s May Lineup Features Action Boyz, Afro Horror, Werewolves Within Director Josh Ruben

Watch here or below! https://twitter.com/TheFilmStage/status/1390472099492466688 After a killer string of episodes with Fangoria, TCM Underground, and ...

News

Nathan Silver Sets A Poet Remake as Next Feature

Richard Kelly Releasing “Gigantic” Debut Novel This Year

Radu Jude Will Shoot New Feature Love Diptych Next Month

Trailers

The Rivals of Amziah King Trailer: Matthew McConaughey Leads Andrew Patterson’s Crime Thriller

Nostalgia for the Future Exclusive Trailer: Charlotte Rampling Travels Through Chris Marker’s World in Cannes Premiere

Exclusive Trailer and Poster for Bruno Dumont’s Red Rocks Captures Growing Up on the French Riviera

Reviews

Silent Friend Review: Tony Leung Finds a Flora Connection

The Misconceived Review: Incisive, Inventive Look at Contemporary Life

Blue Film Review: Masterful Two-Hander Confronts Flaws with Empathy

Features

NYC Weekend Watch: Kazuhiko Hasegawa, Pynchonesque, Max and Richard Fleischer, the Pusher Trilogy & More

New to Streaming: The Drama, Send Help, Exit 8, and André Is an Idiot

Our 20-Most Anticipated 2026 Cannes Film Festival Premieres

Interviews

“Everything Is By Chance”: Tony Leung on Silent Friend, Léa Seydoux, and Ryûsuke Hamaguchi

Silent Friend Director Ildikó Enyedi on Capturing a Tree’s Perspective and the State of a Soul

Arnaud Desplechin on Two Pianos, Nervous Breakdowns, and Making Cinema Bigger Than Life

Podcasts

The B-Sides of Eddie Murphy with Nicholas Gray and Alvin Keith

The B-Sides of Chow Yun-Fat

Josh Heaps on the DIY Horror of City Wide Fever

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