festivals

Update: Lars von Trier Has No Plans For Taxi Driver “Remake”

UPDATE: It looks like the rumor was indeed false. Screendaily reports: Zentropa sources have been busy denying the rumours. “I have seen it in the Danish ...

Amy Heckerling and Alicia Silverstone Reunite for ‘Vamps’

Director Amy Heckerling (Fast Times At Ridgemont High) will be teaming up with her Clueless star Alicia Silverstone for the vampire rom-com Vamps. Silv...

The Mars Volta’s Frontman To Debut ‘The Sentimental Engine Slayer’ In Rotterdam

According to The Playlist, Mars Volta guitarist and co-leader Omar Rodríguez-López has premiered his first feature length film, The Sentimental Engine Slaye...

[Interview] Writer/Director Hue Rhodes On ‘Saint John of Las Vegas’

Writer/Director Hue Rhodes (left of the photo) is a fascinating filmmaker to speak with. I had the pleasure of talking to him the other day on the phone about his debut feature film, Saint John of Las Vegas, which will open nationwide this Friday. [...]...

‘Red Riding’ Trailer and Poster

The Red Riding Trilogy is a series of modern noir films, each helmed by a different director and each taking place in a different year. They follow a "a ser...

[HIFF Review] Children of Invention

Syncopated Films | USA | 86 min. It’s interesting when you’re a child how everything seems to be opposite of reality. Events that will pass by your life with...

[TIFF] Pre-Fest Schedule

The festival season is upon us. Dan Mecca and I will be headed to Canada this September to take on the 34th annual Toronto International Film Festival. I'll...

[Cannes Wrap Up] The End of L’avventura

The biggest film festival in the world has ended, and the winner of the Palme d'Or, Michael Haneke's The White Ribbon, is a visually overwrought, underwhelm...

The Edge of Love on the Edge of Obscurity?

With an apparent (and certainly limited) U.S. release of this film finally coming on March 13th, here's a little diddy about The Edge of Love, directed by Joh...

Black Dynamite and Brooklyn’s Finest Picked Up At Sundance

Today Sony Pictures has picked up blaxploitation film Black Dynamite for $2 million. It is the story of 1970s African-American action legend Black Dynamite. T...

News

MUBI’s May 2024 Lineup Features Radu Jude, Bertrand Bonello, Lee Chang-dong & More

David Lynch Debuts New Remix — Listen

Eliza Hittman Sets Fourth Feature with MOTHERLOVE

Trailers

New Trailer for 4K Restoration of Time of the Heathen Captures a World After the Atomic Bomb

Jia Zhangke and Bi Gan Voice a Coming-of-Age Tale In Exclusive Trailer Debut for Liu Jian’s Art College 1994

Kiyoshi Kurosawa Covers Classic Terrain In First Trailer for Serpent’s Path

Reviews

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

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

The People’s Joker Review: Superhero-Skewering Satire is Miraculous in Multiple Ways

Features

NYC Weekend Watch: Love Streams, Kiyoshi Kurosawa, Ozu & More

New to Streaming: Dune: Part Two, Hundreds of Beavers, Problemista, Immaculate & More

The Best Movies Now Playing in Theaters

Interviews

Frederick Elmes on John Cassavetes’ Infectious Confidence, Imitating Sven Nykvist, and Ang Lee’s Hulk

Becoming the Beast: George MacKay on Fighting for Bertrand Bonello’s Film, Learning French, and Modern Incel Culture

“I’m Not an Actor”: Léa Seydoux on Her Creative Self and False Public Perception

Podcasts

The B-Side – Robert Redford (with Blake Howard)

The Film Stage Show Ep. 534 – Monkey Man (with Jenny Nulf)

The B-Side – In Conversation with Larry Fessenden