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Roberto Benigni is Geppetto in U.S. Trailer for Matteo Garrone’s Pinocchio

Years after his disastrous release of the critically and commercially panned Pinocchio, Roberto Benigni has returned to his favorite Italian fairy tale, this t...

First Look at Sion Sono’s Prisoners of the Ghostland, Which Nicolas Cage Says is His Wildest Movie

Update: The film will premiere at Sundance 2021. See the full announcement. Two of the most prolific artists working today, Japanese director Sion Sono and ...

This is Not a Burial, It’s a Resurrection Review: Lesotho’s First Oscar Entry is a Death-Obsessed Breakthrough Feature

When observing global cultural differences, some of the most telling points of distinction are seen in how different societies treat death. Beyond this, the on...

The Midnight Sky Review: George Clooney Panders with Saccharine Sci-Fi Drama

Since the release of Gravity in 2013, George Clooney has been in quite the acting slump, with Brad Bird’s severely underrated Tomorrowland as the lone bright s...

Criterion Announces Wong Kar Wai Box Set as New Trailers for 4K Restorations Arrive

The premiere of career-spanning restorations has been a time to again celebrate the cinema of Wong Kar-wai—but not without complications and conflicted feeling...

Steve McQueen’s Lovers Rock Leads Sight & Sound’s Top 50 Films of 2020

One of the most esteemed film journalism outlets, BFI's Sight & Sound, have delivered their list of the 50 best films of 2020. Topping the chart is Steve M...

New to Streaming: To the Ends of the Earth, Let Them All Talk, New Directors/New Films & More

With a seemingly endless amount of streaming options—not only the titles at our disposal, but services themselves–each week we highlight the noteworthy titles ...

Alex Wheatle Review: Steve McQueen’s Tale of Radical Awakening Makes for a Modest Small Axe Entry

Alex Wheatle, the fourth entry in Steve McQueen’s Small Axe anthology, offers a modest take on the process of unlearning cultural attitudes and biases through ...

Steven Soderbergh Shares New Details on sex, lies, and videotape Sequel

The pleasure of a new Soderbergh movie is almost eclipsed by the emergence of Soderbergh interviews, characteristically a mingling of intense technical know-ho...

The B-Side – In Conversation with Alessandro Nivola

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 that they ma...

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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