Essays

Karlovy Vary FIlm Festival 2026

Interviews

2026 New Releases

Promised Sky — Erige Sehiri

Growing Pains: A Conversation with Chie Hayakawa on Renoir

The Body Talks: An Interview with Milagraos Mumenthaler

To Transform and Play Pretend: A Conversation with Lucía Aleñar Iglesias on Forastera

A. Rimbaud — Patrick Wang [Review]

2026 Cannes Film Festival

Lies, Damned Lies, and Douglas Sirk’s Magnificent Obsession

Push Boundaries, Then Go to Sleep: An Interview with Curry Barker

You Can’t Be Brave Unless You’re Scared: A Conversation with Elliot Tuttle & Kieron Moore on Blue Film

A Sensory Experience That Makes You Lose Your Mind: Xander Robin On The Python Hunt

Blue Film — Elliot Tuttle

The Misconceived — James N. Kienitz Wilkins

First Look 2026

Prismatic Ground 2026

Cinema As Artifice: A Conversation with Isabel Sandoval

Visions du Réel 2026

Who’s Telling the Truth: A Conversation with Lucrecia Martel on Our Land

The Last One for the Road — Francesco Sossai

Parody & Love of the Game: Stephen Chow’s Kung Fu Hustle

Please Give Yourself the Space and Distance: Chandler Levack on Mile End Kicks

I’m Interested In the Discomfort: Sho Miyake on Two Seasons, Two Strangers

Los Angeles Festival of Movies 2026

Amrum — Fatih Akin

Filmmaking Happens in the Present: A Brief Interview with Kiyoshi Kurosawa

Michael — Antoine Fuqua

Two Seasons, Two Strangers — Sho Miyake

New Directors/New Films 2026 — Dispatch 2

What Does Reality Look Like If Not Vertical: Frédéric Da’s isaiah’s phone

Mother Mary — David Lowery

Just Because It’s Personal, That Doesn’t Make It Easy: Sophy Romvari on Blue Heron

Anchor & Flow: The 2026 Images Festival

Erupcja — Pete Ohs

New Directors/New Films 2026 — Dispatch 1

Mile End Kicks — Chandler Levack

The Travel Companion — Alex Mallis & Travis Wood

The Blurring Boundaries of Our Minds: Genki Kawamura on Exit 8

Heads or Tails? — Alessio Rigo de Righi & Matteo Zoppi

Faces of Death — Daniel Goldhaber

Those Who Seek to Resist the Rot: Igor Bezinović’s Fiume o Morte!

The Christophers — Steven Soderbergh

Exit 8 — Genki Kawamura

Tender Embraces & Virile Collisions: Claire Denis’ Beau Travail

Trickster Noir & Oral Tradition in Killers of the Flower Moon: A Conversation with Lily Gladstone

Blazing Fists - Takashi Miike