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Cannes 2024 Directors Fortnight, Critics Week, and ACID Lineups Unveiled

Following the main lineups for the 2024 Cannes Film Festival, a handful of sidebar slates have been unveiled, featuring Directors Fortnight, Critics Week, and ...

Kim Minhee Meets Cats and Makes Conversation in U.S. Trailer for Hong Sangsoo’s In Our Day

Death, taxes, and one-to-three Hong Sang-soo movies per year. I much prefer the latter, and it's nice knowing we're just a month out from In Our Day, his 30th ...

The Criterion Collection’s July Lineup Includes 4Ks of Pat Garrett, Le Samouraï, and Risky Business

Cruise. Criterion. Just a matter of time, really, until the world's premier movie star made his way into the collection. Smart money might not have been on Pau...

Quentin Tarantino Plans Fall Shoot For The Movie Critic, Lynne Ramsay and Walter Hill Set Next Films & More

Kicking off this news round-up is a small but notable update that Quentin Tarantino plans to launch production on his final feature The Movie Critic this fall ...

Werner Herzog Joins Bong Joon Ho’s Animated Feature, Paul Walter Hauser Will Play Chris Farley & More

Werner Herzog has revealed he's part of the voice cast of Bong Joon Ho's forthcoming animated feature, according to Variety. The fully CGI animation is a deep-...

Family Portrait Trailer: Deragh Campbell is on an Elusive Search in Lucy Kerr’s Locarno Winner

One of our favorites from last year's Locarno Film Festival, where it picked up the Boccalino d’Oro for Best Director, Lucy Kerr's directorial debut Family Por...

Martin Scorsese Exalts the Films of Powell and Pressburger in First Trailer for Acclaimed Documentary

Following the best movie of last year, 2024 brings a lesson in cinema history from Martin Scorsese. He’s narrated a new documentary on two of the greatest...

NYC Weekend Watch: Amnesiascope, Alain Delon, James Dean & More

NYC Weekend Watch is our weekly round-up of repertory offerings. Brooklyn Center for Theatre ResearchThe latest installment of my secret-screening series Am...

Challengers Review: Non-Stop Lurid Entertainment Rides the Charisma of Its Stars

Luca Guadagnino’s Challengers opens in an intentionally disorienting manner: We are in New Rochelle, New York for a tennis challenger. Wearing cheap shorts tha...

Omen Review: An Assured Debut That Never Falters in Ambition or Surprise

When considering a film, it can be healthy to have some skepticism, no matter what genre or subject matter is at hand. With regards to Omen, we have a Belgian-...

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

NYC Weekend Watch: The Wages of Fear, Carrie & More

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

The Best Movies Now Playing in Theaters

Interviews

“It’s All Marketing”: Ed Lachman on HDR, Maria, and Lifetime Achievement Awards

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

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

Podcasts

The Film Stage Show Bonus Ep. – Box Office Bonanza (July 21, 2000)

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

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

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