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The Day YouTube Wept: Marcus Batto’s Found-Footage Memorial to Michael Jackson

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Point of No Return: Digital Nostalgia in Backrooms

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Bleak Week, C’est Chic

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Widow’s Bay and the Genre Jump Scare

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Cannes: Devils May Care

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Cannes: Premium Diesel

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Ready or Not, the Emmys Are Coming

May 20·1 min read·109 words

Cannes Interview: Dominga Sotomayor on Her “Spontaneous and Liberating” La Perra

May 18·1 min read·113 words

Visions du Réel 2026: Utopian Futures

May 14·1 min read·108 words

Prismatic Ground 2026: Windows and Thresholds

May 13·1 min read·108 words

“I Believe My Instinct”: Tony Leung and Ildikó Enyedi on Silent Friend

May 12·1 min read·114 words

“A Growing Sense of Freedom”: Sho Miyake on Two Seasons, Two Strangers

May 11·1 min read·114 words

Ritual of Care: Screening My Film Inside a Women’s Prison

May 8·1 min read·112 words

NAB Show 2026 Moves Toward Broadcast, but Cinema Products Still Excite

May 7·1 min read·113 words

The Popcorn List: Pop Up Series to Launch Theatrical Series of Films Without Distribution

May 6·1 min read·116 words

Work Won’t Love You Back: Greta Rainbow on The Devil Wears Prada 2

May 5·1 min read·115 words

Magic Mirror: Guy Maddin Interviews Caroline Golum on Revelations of Divine Love

Apr 13·1 min read·114 words

“Decontextualized Little Clips of Violence”: Daniel Goldhaber and Isa Mazzei on Faces of Death

Apr 10·1 min read·116 words

Exclusive: Watch a Clip of the LAFM World Premiere Drinking and Driving

Apr 10·1 min read·114 words

“Personal Storytelling, Experimentation, and a DIY Spirit”: A Look Inside LAFM 2026

Apr 9·1 min read·118 words

Let’s Play: Genki Kawamura and Jirô Nagae on a New Kind of Video Game Cinema

Apr 9·1 min read·117 words

“The Scorpion Doesn’t Die”: Japanese Actress Meiko Kaji on Her 60-Year Career

Apr 8·1 min read·114 words

Eight Feature Recommendations from ND/NF 2026, From an IFFR Winner to Charli XCX’s Indie Debut

Apr 8·1 min read·117 words

“What Solidarity Really Looks Like”: Yael Bridge on Who Moves America

Apr 7·1 min read·113 words

“I Wanted to Turn Splash on Its Head”: Tyler Cornack on Mermaid

Apr 6·1 min read·114 words

Trailer Premiere: Francesco Sossai’s The Last One for the Road

Apr 3·1 min read·112 words

Exclusive Clip: Roseanne Pel on Her New Directors/New Films Closing Night Title Donkey Days

Mar 31·1 min read·116 words

“Like a Surveillance Camera”: Christian Petzold on Miroirs No. 3

Mar 30·1 min read·112 words

They Will Kill You Took the Blood, Sweat and Tears of Kirill Sokolov, Zazie Beetz, and Myha’la

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Inspired by Meatloaf: Alice Maio Mackay on The Serpent’s Skin

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More Heart Than a Midnight Movie: Oscar Boyson and Ricky Camilleri on Our Hero, Balthazar

Mar 26·1 min read·117 words

Watch Six Short Films from Filmfort 2026

Mar 26·1 min read·109 words

“The Devil Won’t Wait for You”: Radio Silence on Ready or Not 2: Here I Come

Mar 25·1 min read·118 words

UFO Short Film Lab Announces 2026 Fellows

Mar 25·1 min read·109 words

Cannes Film Festival Head Thierry Frémaux on the Past and Future of Movies

Mar 24·1 min read·115 words

From Fables to Forensics: Five Documentaries from CPH:DOX 2026

Mar 23·1 min read·111 words

“Absolutely Not a Genre Film”: Julia Ducournau in Conversation with Robert Eggers on Alpha

Mar 23·1 min read·116 words

undertone, 2026’s Scariest Movie So Far, Conjures Filmmaker Ian Tuason’s Real-life Demons

Mar 20·1 min read·114 words

“You Have to Adjust the Sails to the Winds”: Graham Parkes on Wishful Thinking

Mar 19·1 min read·116 words

“Questions of the Soul”: Director Brian Tetsuro Ivie and Star Sydney Chandler on Anima

Mar 19·1 min read·116 words

With The Bride!, Maggie Gyllenhaal Clumsily Exhumes 200 Years of Zombie Girls

Mar 18·1 min read·114 words

“We’re Becoming More and More Disconnected as a Society”: Alex Prager on DreamQuil

Mar 17·1 min read·115 words

One Battle After Another Wins Big, Sinners Makes History at the 2026 Oscars

Mar 16·1 min read·115 words

“Fungi Dictated the Structure of the Movie”: Otilia Portillo Padua on Daughters of the Forest

Mar 13·1 min read·117 words

A Guide to SXSW 2026, From Penis Enlargements to Pagan Mall Employees

Mar 12·1 min read·114 words

Maggie Gyllenhaal’s Monster Mash

Mar 9·1 min read·106 words

ESG, Ross McElwee, and Other Exciting Artists Take Over True/False 2026

Mar 5·1 min read·113 words

“A Trippy, Psychedelic Musical Odyssey”: Josef Gatti on Phenomena

Mar 5·1 min read·111 words

How The Secret Agent Became Brazil’s Reluctant Political Rorschach Test

Mar 4·1 min read·112 words

For Once, the Oscars Are Unpredictable

Mar 3·1 min read·108 words

The Sommelier’s Amulet: Nick Corirossi and Armen Weitzman on The Napa Boys

Feb 27·1 min read·114 words

“I’m a Reactor”: Stellan Skarsgård, Back To One, Episode 382

Feb 26·1 min read·122 words

“I Wanted the Film to Have the Vignetted Existence of a Fable”: Sarmad Sultan Khoosat on his Genre-bending Berlinale Premiere Lali

Feb 25·1 min read·123 words

How a Controversial BAFTA Broadcast Scrambled the Oscar Race

Feb 24·1 min read·111 words

Scandalous Forms, Political Candor: Highlights from Berlinale’s 2026 Forum Documentaries

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The Passion of Amir Naderi

Feb 23·1 min read·107 words

Review: The New Nikon ZR Shoots RED RAW Footage on a Budget

Feb 19·1 min read·114 words

“I Really Wanted to Create a Chekhovian World”: Kornél Mundruczó on the Amy Adams-starring Berlinale Competition Film At the Sea

Feb 19·1 min read·122 words

“The Underbelly of Lagos”: Olive Nwosu on Lady

Feb 18·1 min read·110 words

“What Does a Thing Provide You With?”: Amanda Kramer on the Props and Interiors in By Design

Feb 18·1 min read·119 words

The Indie Spirits Flip the Oscar Script

Feb 17·1 min read·109 words

“I Feel Like It’s Very Sacred, What Happens Between the Camera and You”: Samantha Smart, Back To One, Episode 380

Feb 17·1 min read·123 words

Nirvanna the Band the Show the Movie’s Matt Johnson Shares His Secret to a Good Life

Feb 13·1 min read·118 words

“Trying to Make a Psychotic Opera”: Gore Verbinski on Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die

Feb 12·1 min read·117 words

True Story: I Used My Jeopardy! Winnings to Finance My First Feature

Feb 11·1 min read·114 words

“A Calculated Exercise in Squeezing Blood From a Stone”: Director Aidan Zamiri and Composer A.G. Cook on Charli XCX’s The Moment

Feb 10·1 min read·123 words

“Anything I’ve Enjoyed Doing in My Career I Can Trace Back to a Little Thing That I Did, a Little Step That I Took”: Sarah Coffey, Back To One, Episode 379

Feb 10·1 min read·133 words

Cinéma Du Cashiers Begins at BAM This Week—Watch an Exclusive Promo by David Cardoza

Feb 9·1 min read·116 words

Caroline Golum’s Revelations of Divine Love Finds a North American Distributor in Several Futures—Take a First Look at Exclusive Photos

Feb 9·1 min read·122 words

“Trojan Horse Filmmaking”: Adam and Zack Khalil on Aanikoobijigan [ancestor/great-grandparent/great-grandchild]

Feb 5·1 min read·112 words

“I Want To Be More Honest and More Authentic, Both With Myself and With My Roles”: Ben Mehl, Back To One, Episode 378

Feb 4·1 min read·133 words

How Phone-Camera Vérité Defeated Action-Flick Propaganda in the War to Define Minneapolis

Feb 4·1 min read·114 words

What I Saw, Heard, and Felt as Sundance Bid Farewell to Park City—and Robert Redford

Feb 4·1 min read·117 words