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Berlin Review: Ryūsuke Hamaguchi’s Exquisite Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy Collects a Trio of Lovesick Stories

Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy is cinema portmanteau: three short stories focused on three different characters, each a little lovesick and just a little lost. T...

Berlin Review: Anocha Suwichakornpong’s Come Here is a Transportive Thai Odyssey

In 1953, Chris Marker and Alain Resnais released Statues Also Die, a key work in their fledgling early careers that focused on traditional African art and its ...

Berlin Review: Radu Jude’s Incendiary Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn Playfully Addresses The Moment

As his old compatriots dabble in as far flung places as comic noirs (The Whistlers) and über-dense period symposiums (Malmkrog), it’s interesting that Radu Jud...

Boogie Review: Generic Sports Drama Bogs Down Compelling Human Interest Story in Eddie Huang’s Debut

As writer/director Eddie Huang's fortune teller states, when a dragon and a dog come together, they create a snake. That's what Alfred 'Boogie' Chin (Taylor Ta...

Berlin Review: Petite Maman is Céline Sciamma’s Warm, Delicate Portrait of Mother-Daughter Love

After the ambitious and wildly popular Portrait of a Lady on Fire shot Céline Sciamma into the arthouse stratosphere, she has returned with her fifth feature, ...

Jean-Luc Godard Hints at Retirement in New 85-Minute Conversation

It is, all things considered, slightly insane that Jean-Luc Godard is still alive, cognizant, and someone from whom we can receive perspective on the modern wo...

Ryūsuke Hamaguchi on Cassavetes, Sci-Fi, Coincidence, and Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy

High anticipation for a new Ryūsuke Hamaguchi film is a relatively recent phenomenon. The Japanese director completed his debut film Passion around the tail en...

Berlin Review: Dan Stevens’ Robot Lover is More Human than Human in I’m Your Man

Falling in love with a robot isn’t good news, as Her and Blade Runner (both 2019 and 2049) tell us. In I’m Your Man, unspooling in competition at Berlin, a for...

Lost Course Review: An Epic Look at Democracy, Power, and the Pitfalls of Idealism in South China

“I was locked in Guangdong jail for twenty days,” says Hong, a resident of Wukan, China who became a key figure in the small village’s 2011 protests that drew ...

Chaos Walking Review: Doug Liman’s Sci-Fi Adventure Delivers Thrills With Little Depth

Doug Liman's foray into science fiction has given us inexplicable lows like Jumper, and impressive heights such as Edge of Tomorrow. Chaos Walking finds an int...

News

NYC Weekend Watch: Korean Cinema’s Celluloid Fever, Southland Tales, Gamer & More

The Criterion Channel’s June Lineup Features Odysseys, Weddings, James Bond, and Brian Eno

First Look at Pascal Plante’s Red Rooms Follow-Up King’s Daughters Starring Sandrine Bonnaire

Trailers

Exclusive Trailer and Poster for Lisandro Alonso’s Double Freedom Marks a Powerful Reunion

Isabelle Huppert and Delphine Seyrig Inhabit an Artist In Exclusive Trailer and Poster for Liliane de Kermadec’s Aloïse

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

Reviews

Cannes Review: With Club Kid, Jordan Firstman Announces Himself as a Director to Watch

Cannes Review: Fatherland Finds Paweł Pawlikowski in a Heady, Aching Register

Cannes Review: Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma Is a Joyful Addition to Jane Schoenbrun’s Box of Mysteries

Features

New to Streaming: Yes, The Love That Remains, The Christophers, Project Hail Mary & More

The Best Movies Now Playing in Theaters

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

Interviews

“Making Movies Should Be a Pleasure”: Olivier Assayas on The Wizard of the Kremlin

“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

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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