Karlovy Vary

Karlovy Vary Review: The Moisture, Melancholy, and Madrid of Jonás Trueba’s ‘The August Virgin’

In the new movie The August Virgin, a young woman named Eva wanders the sidewalks and watering holes of Spain's sunny capital on a series of increasingly hot, c...

Karlovy Vary Review: ‘Varda by Agnès’ is a Joyous Coda to a Playfully Iconic Career

Life can seldom offer us neat endings. Cinema sometimes can, and there is something nicely fitting to the notion that Agnès Varda, the seventh art's great celeb...

Karlovy Vary Review: Abel Ferrara’s ‘Tommaso’ is Introspective Filmmaking at its Most Brutally Honest

There are roughly two key types of autobiographical auteur movies. One is the phantasmagoric childhood upbringing kind–as in Fellini's Amarcord or, more recentl...

Karlovy Vary Review: Casey Affleck’s Narrative Directorial Debut ‘Light of My Life’ Finds Tenderness in Dystopia

The new film from Casey Affleck arrives at the tail end of a smattering of telling coincidences and sliding door moments. In February 2017, he won an Academy Aw...

Karlovy Vary Review: ‘Lara’ Sympathetically Follows a Woman on the Verge

What a difference a day makes. Allowing one's characters to move from narrative point A to narrative point B in the same amount of time it takes for the Earth t...

‘The Cakemaker’ Director on the Jewish Community’s Reaction and His Upbringing as a Gay Teen

One of the biggest indie breakouts of 2018 was Ofir Raul Graizer’s The Cakemaker, which is Israel's 2019 Oscar contender....

Ethan Hawke on Dreaming of a Fourth ‘Before’ Film, Why He’s Not Having a McConaughey Moment, and the Necessity of Film Festivals

We met up with the actor at the Locarno Film Festival this summer to discuss First Reformed, Christian Bale, River Phoenix, Boyhood pride, where the Before films may be headed next....

News

Amnesiascope Presents a Rarely Screened Maggie Cheung Film on Tuesday, September 17

Cinephile Game Night Returns to 62nd New York Film Festival

John Woo Will Direct Sparks’ Musical X Crucior

Trailers

U.S. Trailer for Mati Diop’s Golden Bear-Winning Dahomey Gives Voice to Art

Sebastian Stan is Donald Trump in the First Trailer for The Apprentice

4K Restoration Trailer for Tarsem Singh’s The Fall Reintroduces a Dazzling Journey

Reviews

Venice Review: Kevin Costner Is Going Strong With Horizon: An American Saga – Chapter 2

TIFF Review: Joseph Kahn’s Ick is a Riotous, Satirical Take on the Creature Feature

TIFF Review: David Gordon Green’s Nutcrackers is a Frustratingly Contrived Affair

Features

Posterized September 2024: Eureka, Red Rooms, Matt and Mara & More

New to Streaming: Rebel Ridge, My First Film, Twilight of the Warriors: Walled In, Dìdi (弟弟) & More

NYC Weekend Watch: L.C. Barreto Productions, Andy Warhol, Another Woman & More

Interviews

Look Into My Eyes Director Lana Wilson on Psychic Tradition vs. Therapy, the Loneliness of NYC, and Hirokazu Kore-eda’s After Life

Jeremy Saulnier on Rebel Ridge, the Power of Information Deprivation, and Staying Energized Through Production Delays

Lee Daniels on The Deliverance, Shifting Culture, Douglas Sirk, and That Glenn Close Performance

Podcasts

The Film Stage Show Ep. 547 – Horizon: An American Saga – Chapter 1 (with Jen Johans)

The Film Stage Show Bonus Ep. – Box Office Bonanza (January 14, 2005)

The Film Stage Show Ep. 546 – Trap (with Dan Mecca)