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Beastie Boys Story Review: Spike Jonze Directs Informal Doc About Illin’ and Chillin’ Down Memory Lane

Even with its two-hour running time, the experience of watching Spike Jonze’s "live documentary" Beastie Boys Story has the feeling of a breezy, intimate, and ...

Watch: Sofia Coppola Discusses Her Career and On the Rocks in One-Hour Conversation

While we're celebrating the 20th anniversary of the theatrical release of Sofia Coppola's remarkable debut feature The Virgin Suicides this week, the filmmaker...

The B-Side – Keira Knightley

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...

Tribeca Review: Socks on Fire is a Cathartic Portrait of an Alabamian Family Feud

The hope is that the sorrow of losing a loved one proves the extent of the pain we must suffer before we set about sifting through what's left of that expired ...

Liberté Trailer: Albert Serra Brings Radical Debauchery to the Summer Movie Season

We aren't getting a Marvel movie to kick off the summer movie season, but thankfully something far more daring and anticipated is arriving instead next week. A...

Lynne Ramsay to Adapt a Margaret Atwood Short Story

The gap between Lynne Ramsay projects is often an extended one, but as her four features since 1999 have proven, the wait is usually worth it. Following up her...

First Look at Woody Allen’s Rifkin’s Festival, Set for Fall Release in Spain

Update: The film will world premiere out of competition at the San Sebastián Film Festival when it opens on September 18. When we share most first looks for...

Tribeca Review: Wake Up on Mars is a Refugee Documentary with Fantastical Ambitions

Whether it’s Pan’s Labyrinth or Where the Wild Things Are or The Fall, the narrative side of cinema is rich with stories of children escaping a harsh reality t...

Spaceship Earth Trailer Goes Inside a Bold Experiment to Sustain a New World

If the Earth was no longer inhabitable, could we survive inside a self-sustaining biodome environment launched into space? In 1991, an eight-person group of me...

First Trailer for Russell Simmons Sexual Assault Documentary On the Record

When HBO Max launches later next month, along with the Studio Ghibli library, Turner Classic Movies selections, and more of the back catalog, there will be a n...

News

NYC Weekend Watch: Masahiro Shinoda, Budd Boetticher in 3D, Carlito’s Way & More

The Criterion Channel’s July Lineup Features Harry Dean Stanton, Jonathan Demme, The Prisoner & More

The Criterion Collection’s September Lineup Features Leos Carax 4K Set, The Secret Agent, Richard Linklater, Satyajit Ray & More

Trailers

Exclusive Trailer for Film Forum’s Laurel & Hardy Retrospective Celebrates Comedy Titans

Dreams in Nightmares Trailer: Shatara Michelle Ford’s Acclaimed Second Feature Arrives in August

Shinya Tsukamoto Goes to War In Trailer for English-Language Vietnam Film Mr. Nelson, Did You Kill People?

Reviews

Rose of Nevada Review: Mark Jenkin’s Stupefying, Time-Slipping Ghost Story

Maddie’s Secret Review: John Early Shows Total Commitment In Feature Debut

Tribeca Review: Alicia Vikander Gives a Restrained, Layered Performance in The Last Day

Features

New to Streaming: Two Pianos, The Last One for the Road, Pressure, The Wizard of the Kremlin & More

The Best Movies Now Playing in Theaters

New to Streaming: Blue Film, I Am Frankelda, It’s Dorothy! & More

Interviews

“It Was Our Job to Commit”: John Early on the Roman Empire, Paul Verhoeven, and Maddie’s Secret

“I’ve Got No Idea How That Works”: Mark Jenkin on Rose of Nevada

Michael Sarnoski on His Favorite Robin Hood Films and the Character’s Violent Mythology

Podcasts

The B-Sides of Steven Spielberg with Bilge Ebiri

The B-Sides of Goldie Hawn with Jen Johans

The B-Sides of Laurence Fishburne with Mitchell Beaupre

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