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Berlin Review: Police Tragedy Leads Jérémie Renier Astray in Xavier Beauvois’ Drift Away

With Drift Away, director Xavier Beauvois––known internationally for his masterful monastery-set Of Gods and Men––juxtaposes the picturesque scenery of norther...

Mona Fastvold on Capturing Tragic Love in The World to Come, Collaborating with the LGBT Community, and Dancing to Vox Lux

After breaking out with her impressive directorial debut, 2014's The Sleepwalker, Mona Fastvold wrote Childhood of a Leader and Vox Lux with her partner Brady ...

The B-Side – Michael Keaton

Welcome to The B-Side, from The Film Stage. Here we talk about movie stars! Not the movies that made them famous or kept them famous, but the ones they made in...

Posterized March 2021: Rose Plays Julie, Come True, Lost Course & More

After a packed-to-the-gills February, March is really dialing things down with releases. If my local theaters are any indication, it seems that studios...

Cinephile Game Night’s March Lineup Features Turner Classic Movies & Test Pattern Filmmaker Shatara Michelle Ford

Update: Watch the game night below. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jjEqCb5w1a8&feature=youtu.be Last month Cinephile Game Night kicked off a brand...

Michelangelo Antonioni’s Unproduced Screenplay Technically Sweet is Becoming a Film

One of the greatest auteurs in cinema history, Michelangelo Antonioni, passed away fourteen years ago––on the same day of Ingmar Bergman's death, no less––but ...

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...

News

James Gray’s Paper Tiger Sets North American Premiere as Opening Night of the 64th New York Film Festival

The Criterion Collection’s October Lineup Features The Silence of the Lambs and Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein on 4K, Jerzy Skolimowski, and Samuel Fuller

Locarno Film Festival Unveils 2026 Lineup

Trailers

The Uprising Trailer: Andrew Garfield Leads a Rebellion for Paul Greengrass

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

Reviews

The Odyssey Review: Christopher Nolan’s Journey of Perpetual, Enervating Awe

The Kidnapping of Arabella Review: Offbeat Italian Road Trip Comedy

Night Nurse Review: A Perverse, Seductive Thriller

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

The B-Sides of Christopher Nolan with Blake Howard

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

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