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Metrograph Announces New Membership-Based Programming, Available Digitally Nationwide

Opening four years ago in the Lower East Side of Manhattan, Metrograph has been a bastion for cinephiles. Since the pandemic hit in mid-March, causing all movi...

Lucrecia Martel, Lav Diaz, Miguel Gomes & More Pick Locarno Favorites to Screen in New Sidebar

Like most film festivals this year, Locarno Film Festival will not be moving ahead as usual. However, they've found inventive ways to both celebrate filmmakers...

The Rental Review: Dave Franco’s Directorial Debut is a Sturdy, Small-Scale Thriller

Terror in a hotel or motel (or motel shower) has been done to death, but bringing horror to the familiar trappings of an Airbnb is simple, brilliant, and surpr...

Radioactive Review: Rosamund Pike Fights for Recognition in Marie Curie Biopic

You can't tell the story of Marie Curie's genius without also touching upon the complex ramifications of the scientific work she accomplished. As her husband a...

First Trailer for Terrence Malick-Produced Drama The Book of Vision, Set to Premiere at Venice

With this year's edition of Telluride Film Festival canceled, the first major film festival to get underway this fall will be Venice––one of the places hardest...

Fisherman’s Friends Review: A Feel-Good Dramedy Featuring Unlikely Crooners

The moment a group of Cornish fishermen and lifeboatmen turned their charitable crooning on the shore of Port Isaac into a Universal Music record deal that saw...

The B-Side – Joel Schumacher

Welcome to The B-Side, from The Film Stage. Here we talk about movie stars and filmmakers and not the movies that made them famous or kept them famous, but the...

NSFW Trailer for Helmut Newton: The Bad and the Beautiful Captures the Life & Work of a Legendary Photographer

One of the great photographers of the 20th century, even if you have yet to hear the name Helmut Newton, you have certainly seen one of his photos. After fleei...

New to Streaming: Marriage Stories, Junun, Miranda July, The Painted Bird & 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 ...

Charlie Kaufman Returns: First Look at I’m Thinking of Ending Things

I'm still working my way through Charlie Kaufman's debut novel Antkind––which follows a neurotic film critic who becomes the only person on earth to see a thre...

News

Catherine Breillat Sets Next Film With The German Cousin

John Sayles Sets Directing Return With I Passed This Way Starring Amy Madigan and Chris Cooper

KimStim Acquires Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s Serpent’s Path Remake for Summer Release

Trailers

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

Nostalgia for the Future Exclusive Trailer: Charlotte Rampling Travels Through Chris Marker’s World in Cannes Premiere

Reviews

The Wizard of Kremlin Review: An Irrelevant, Cynical Approach to Vladimir Putin’s Russian

Cannes Review: Kantemir Balagov’s Butterfly Jam Can’t Find a Rhythm

Obsession Review: A Nasty, Humorous Horror Breakout

Features

The Best Movies Now Playing in Theaters

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

New to Streaming: The Drama, Send Help, Exit 8, and André Is an Idiot

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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