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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...

Exclusive: Cinema Guild Acquires Jessica Dunn Rovinelli’s So Pretty and Empathy

A pair of films we've been hoping find a home have now been acquired. We're pleased to exclusively announce that Cinema Guild has secured North American distri...

First Trailer for Francis Ford Coppola’s Megalopolis Introduces a Lavish Epic

The Cannes Film Festival officially kicks off today with the latest from Quentin Dupieux, but Francis Ford Coppola has decided to truly begin the festivities w...

News

Cahiers du cinéma’s Top 10 Films of 2024 Includes Misericordia, Evil Does Not Exist, and Trap

Trailer for Palestine’s Oscar Entry From Ground Zero + Exclusive Poster Giveaway

MUBI’s December 2024 Lineup Includes Dahomey, Bird, The People’s Joker & More

Trailers

Sujo Trailer: Mexico’s Oscar Entry From Identifying Features Team Arrives Next Week

Jacques Demy’s Masterpiece The Umbrellas of Cherbourg Gets New Trailer for 4K Restoration

DIG! XX Trailer: Ondi Timoner’s Cult Classic Rock Doc Gets Expanded Edition This January

Reviews

Thessaloniki Review: Holy Electricity is a Directorial Debut That Finds Substance in Unusual Places

The Black Sea Review: A Dynamic Lead Performance Drives Familiar Fish-Out-of-Water Story

Thessaloniki Review: When the Light Breaks Showcases a Dawn-to-Dusk Tragedy with Raw Depth

Features

New to Streaming: Here, Conclave, Eureka, Memoir of a Snail, Beatles ’64 & More

The Best Movies Now Playing in Theaters

New to Streaming: Blitz, The Piano Lesson, Flipside, We Live in Time, Alien: Romulus & More

Interviews

The Seed of the Sacred Fig Director Mohammad Rasoulof on Filming in Secret and the Repression of the Iranian Republic

Gaucho Gaucho Directors Michael Dweck and Gregory Kershaw on Mythology, Compositions, and Community

Rodrigo Prieto on His Directorial Debut, Martin Scorsese’s Snubs, and Taylor Swift’s Feature Debut

Podcasts

The B-Side – Ridley Scott (with Maria Lewis)

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

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

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