Festivals Videos
SXSW 2026 Opening Night: I LOVE BOOSTERS, Boots Randolph to Kick It Off
Exciting news out of Austin, Texas, today, as SXSW 2026 announced its opening night film for its 40th year: the world premiere of Boots Randolph's I Love Boosters. Here's the official verbiage: "South by Southwest® (SXSW®) announced today that NEON's...
Camerimage 2025 Interview: SPRINGSTEEN: DELIVER ME FROM NOWHERE Director Scott Cooper and DP Masanobu Takayanagi Talk Defying Expectations
A biopic about one of the most famous musicians in rock, Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere avoids the standard life story formula to focus on the trauma of creating the album Nebraska. With Jeremy Allen White as Bruce Springsteen, and...
Golden Horse 2025 Interview: DEAR STRANGER Director Tetsuya Mariko Talks Transnational Filmmaking, New York, and Puppet Theater
The director of Toei's first English-language feature talks puppets, New York, and transnational dialogues.
Friday One Sheet: MAGELLAN
The majestic ode to the age of exploration and sail show in today's key art belies the revisionist historical film from slow cinema maestro Lav Diaz. With its hazy sunrise and high grain, and jaunty tilt (note the waterline, and...
Creature Feature Preacher Interview: THE CREEP TAPES, Mark Duplass and Patrick Brice Talk Friendship and a Sociopath
Video: The filmmakers talk about their friendship and how that developed into a funny but scary show.
Camera Japan Rotterdam 2025 Review: HOW DARE YOU?
The Netherlands have their very own Japanese Film Festival. It's called Camera Japan and is held every year in Rotterdam and Amsterdam. This year, the festival opened with a treat: Korean-Japanese director O Mipo's Futsū no Kodomo, which translates literally...
San Sebastian 2025 Review: REDOUBT, Measured, Poetic Study of Obsession, Isolation in Rural Sweden
Swedish filmmaker John Skoog reconstructs the true story of Karl-Göran Persson, a Cold War-era farm laborer who turned his home into a private fortress.
Serial Killer Brno 2025 Review: QUEEN OF FUCKING EVERYTHING, Finnish Darker Comedy Series, Taps into BREAKING BAD Territory with a Twist
Writer-director Tiina Lymi delivers a darker Finnish crime dramedy that examines the collapse of middle-class identity through the story of a real estate agent whose gradual descent into criminality exposes the moral fragility beneath social respectability.
Busan 2025 Review: Hypnotic Meta-Mystery BLACK RABBIT, WHITE RABBIT Bends Time, Space and Genres in Quantum Storytelling
Black Rabbit, White Rabbit, Tajikistan's official submission for the 2025 Academy Awards, marks the Iranian filmmaker's first international production and an ambitious continuation of his narrative recursion, cinematic illusion.
Vlissingen 2025 Review: HOW TO MAKE A KILLING Is A Fun Look At Corruption
Vlissingen's Film by the Sea Festival always has a special section for French films, and one of the funniest this year was Franck Dubosc's criminal caper Un Ours Dans le Jura. This literally translates to "A Bear in the Jura",...
New York 2025 Review: A PRIVATE LIFE, The Adventures of an American Psychiatrist in France
Jodie Foster stars (speaking French) in Rebecca Zlotowski's murder mystery.
New York 2025 Review: A HOUSE OF DYNAMITE, The Last Minutes of the World As We Know It
On a seemingly ordinary morning, a nuclear missile is launched somewhere out of the Pacific Ocean and is on a trajectory to hit Chicago in about 20 minutes. On a military base in Alaska, the officers who first detected the...
Fantasia 2025 Interview: KAKUKAKU SHIKAJIKA, Akiko Higashimura and Mei Nagano Talk Bringing a Mangaka's Autobiographical Work To Screen
A beloved manga artist and her on-screen counterpart discuss the live-action adaptation.
Toronto 2025 Review: FOLLIES Portrays Polyamory's Awkward Learning Curve
Canadian filmmaker Eric K. Boulianne examines the shifting dynamics of long-term intimacy through the lens of non-monogamy, framing a comedy of sexual curiosity that doubles as a study of identity, desire, and generational change.
Toronto 2025 Review: LOVELY DAY Turns a Wedding Movie Into a Neurotic Comedy of Errors
Philippe Falardeau adapts Alain Farah's autobiographical novel into a formally restless portrait of anxiety and memory, using the wedding-movie framework less to stage a union than to examine the unstable ground beneath it.
Toronto 2025 Review: FRANZ Uses a Fragmented, Hybrid Form to Portray Kafka Beyond the Conventional Biopic
Selected as Poland's submission for the Academy Awards, Agnieszka Holland's film approaches the challenge of depicting Franz Kafka through a fragmented docu-fiction form that reflects the author's elusive legacy.
Toronto 2025 Review: NUREMBERG, Holocaust Courtroom Drama Fails to Justify Its Existence
Russell Crowe, Rami Malek and Michael Shannon star in James Vanderbilt's historical drama.
Busan 2025 Interview: ALL GREENS Director Takashi Koyama Talks the High-School Drug-Dealing Dramedy You Didn't Know You Needed
A lively conversation with the mind behind a daring dramedy at this year's BIFF.
CAMP First Look: Dark Sky Films Acquires US Distribution Rights to Avalon Fast's Fantastic Fest Entry
Avalon Fast's sophomore film, CAMP, had its world premiere at Fanstastic Fest yesterday. Prior to that the folks at Dark Sky Films announced they had secured US distribution rights to the film. They released a first look clip for the...
Toronto 2025 Review: THE CURRENTS, Oblique and Tactile Nightmare
At the peak of her career, Catalina (or Cata, or Lina, depending on what social context she is in) appears to have it all: a successful career, a tasteful modern home, a sensitive, engaged husband, and a beautiful young daughter....
