Dracula Review: Radu Jude Crafts Unruly, Indulgent Satire

Note: This review was originally published as part of our 2025 Locarno coverage. Dracula opens in theaters on October 29. Radu Jude is one of the great film...

“Cinema Can Be Bigger”: Radu Jude on Dracula, AI, and One Battle After Another

Radu Jude flashes on the screen with an AI-generated background of a machine gun-wielding Donald Trump riding a giant kitten. What one is meant to make of this...

U.S. Trailer for Radu Jude’s Dracula Takes an Ambitious Bite

With more ideas per minute, perhaps second, than any other film this year, Radu Jude's take on Dracula actually features many takes. Following its New York Fil...

Robert Zemeckis, M. Night Shyamalan, Nicolas Winding Refn, and Radu Jude Set Up New Projects

Directing the best American film of 2024 that's also the uber-rare piece of experimental art to screen in multiplexes and––you know where this is headed––massi...

Berlinale Review: Kontinental ’25 Shows Radu Jude Has Nothing Left To Prove

“The id grows tedious,” art critic Jackson Arn wrote recently, “when left to speak too freely.” The Romanian filmmaker Radu Jude keeps his in check by grou...

Exclusive Poster for Radu Jude’s Berlinale Premiere Kontinental ’25 Pays Homage to Roberto Rossellini

Coming after a major 2024 with the U.S. release of his blistering satire Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World (which nabbed a spot in our...

Radu Jude Reveals First Look at Next Two Features Dracula and Continental ’25

After a major 2024 with the wider release of his blistering satire Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World (which nabbed a spot in our top 10) and the...

Locarno Review: Radu Jude Returns with Provocative, Amusing Eight Postcards from Utopia and Sleep #2

A year since Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World amused us so, Radu Jude has now unveiled two new experimental found-footage films in Locarno. And...

U.S. Trailer for Radu Jude’s Radical Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World, Coming This March

One of the most-acclaimed premieres of last year, so much so that it landed in our top 25 films of 2023 despite not even getting a U.S. release yet, Radu Jude'...

Claire Denis, Ryusuke Hamaguchi, Kiyoshi Kurosawa, Christian Petzold, Apichatpong Weerasethakul & More Sign Demand for Ceasefire in Gaza

Update: Léa Seydoux, Adèle Exarchopoulos, Tahar Rahim, Swann Arlaud, Ariane Labed, and more have signed a letter asking French President Emmanuel Macron to rec...