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Daredevil Couple’s Romance is Tested in First Trailer for Skywalkers: A Love Story

"There is a danger to romance," says Jeff Zimbalist, co-director of the new documentary Skywalkers: A Love Story, which follows the love story of two Russian d...

Zia Anger Makes Her Case In Teaser for My First Film

Nestled in our list of most-anticipated 2024 premieres was Zia Anger's My First Film, a spin on / expansion of / who-can-say from her much-lauded shorts My Fir...

July on the Criterion Channel Includes Shakespeare, Glauber Rocha, Gregg Araki, Godzilla & More

How now, what news: the Criterion Channel's July lineup is here. Eight pop renditions of Shakespeare are on the docket: from movies you forgot were inspired by...

Todd Haynes Sets Trust with Kate Winslet and HBO; First Logline for Joaquin Phoenix Film Arrives

Second update: Indiewire reports Phoenix has left Haynes' film five days before production was expected to begin, leaving the project in an uncertain state. ...

Exclusive Trailer for Eduardo Williams’ The Human Surge 3 Provides a New Way to See the World

In what feels like unprecedented territory, Eduardo Williams has followed his 2016 breakout experimental film The Human Surge––not with a sequel, but thre...

Just the Two of Us Review: Virginie Efira and Melvil Poupaud Excel in Schematic Domestic Violence Thriller

A seemingly blissful union rapidly crumbles in Valérie Donzelli’s Just the Two of Us, a domestic abuse-drama presented as a harrowing-if-simplified psychologic...

A Great Aventure Begins in First Trailer for Paddington in Peru

Breaking through the rare echelon of not just solid family entertainment but actually among some of the best films of their respective years, the Paddington fr...

Dandelion Trailer: KiKi Layne is Trying to Make It in SXSW Favorite, Scored by Bryce and Aaron Dessner

Writer-director Nicole Riegel is following up her 2020 directorial debut coming-of-age drama Holler with another story of a young woman finding her way in the ...

Haley Bennett is a French Wine Pioneer in First Trailer for Widow Clicquot

While Magazine Dreams will likely never get a release, thankfully Haley Bennett's other 2023 festival premiere is arriving next month. A new trailer has now be...

Tribeca Review: Martin Scorsese Exudes Wisdom in Made in England: The Films of Powell & Pressburger

There’s an argument to be made that the single image which best exemplifies pure cinematic wonder is the Archers logo. The introductory title reel belonged to ...

News

A David Lynch Short Film From 2018 is Now Available to Watch for the First Time

February on the Criterion Channel Includes Argentine Noir, Joan Micklin Silver, Chantal Akerman & More

An Expanded Edition of Wong Kar-wai’s In the Mood for Love with Never-Before-Seen Footage Sets China Premiere

Trailers

Broken Rage Trailer: Takeshi Kitano’s Crime Comedy Comes to Prime Video This February

Jaume Collet-Serra Returns to Horror in First Trailer for The Woman in the Yard

Peter Weir’s Landmark of Australian Cinema Is Salvaged In Trailer for Picnic at Hanging Rock‘s 4K Release

Reviews

Wolf Man Review: Leigh Whannell’s Effective Reboot Scares Up Hereditary Horrors

Emmanuelle Review: Audrey Diwan Subverts an Erotic Classic to Compelling, Alienating Effect

Every Little Thing Review: A Sensitive Portrait of a Great Woman’s Dedication to Hummingbirds

Features

NYC Weekend Watch: Fat City, THX 1138, Anthony Mann & More

New to Streaming: Queer, Close Your Eyes, A Different Man, Red Rooms & More

Eli Friedberg’s Top 10 First-Viewings of 2024

Interviews

The Brutalist Composer Daniel Blumberg on the Ambitious, Intensive Process of Scoring Brady Corbet’s Epic

Mike Leigh on Hard Truths, Losing Dick Pope, and the Duty of an Artist

“Cinema Could Be Grander”: Nickel Boys Director RaMell Ross on Perspectives, Contradictions, and True Intimacy

Podcasts

The B-Side – In Conversation with Julia Stiles on Her Directorial Debut Wish You Were Here

The B-Side – Al Pacino (with Mitchell Beaupre)

The B-Side – Jack Lemmon (with Mitchell Beaupre)

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