The Karlovy Vary International Film Festival has walked an improbable path of occupation, compromise, and survival. Its first ...

A multidisciplinary artist at heart, the animator Emily Ann Hoffman makes films spanning many mediums at once. Stop-motion ...

In Gregg Araki’s I Want Your Sex (2026), a wallflower Gen Z gallery assistant, Elliot (Cooper Hoffman), enters into a dom-sub ...

I first heard about the reopening of the community-run cinema La Clef shortly after arriving in Paris this January. A friend, ...

Toward the end of my interview with Gregg Araki, I remind him of his scene from Michael Almereyda and Amy Hobby’s 1995 documentary At Sundance. Sitting on a couch next to Todd Haynes, Araki is at that ...

As We Speak, the directorial debut from J.M. Harper, follows the growing phenomenon of rap lyrics being used during legal battles both in the U.S. and abroad. Rapper Kemba acts as a guide through the ...

Born in Mexico in the early 1990s, Isabel Castro moved extensively with her family throughout her childhood. After relocating to Argentina and Brazil, the Castro family arrived in the United ...

Architect of the three last films in the Predator franchise (the previous two being the 1719-set Prey and animated anthology film Predator: Killer of Killers), Dan Trachtenberg would be the first to ...

Charlotte Wells has been saying that her first feature, which she calls “emotionally autobiographical,” was inspired by leafing through a family album and realizing how young her father was when she ...

When the UPS Teamsters—the largest bargaining unit in the country at 340,000 strong—were negotiating their 2023 contract, it became increasingly clear that management wasn’t looking to ameliorate ...

In Bouchra, 3D animated anthropomorphic animals may populate the world, but the intricacies of their lives are unmistakably human. This approach is par for the course for the film’s co-directors, the ...

Boots Riley has directed two movies and one TV show over the past decade, but he’s been telling stories through music for more than 30 years. “I usually think about my songs the same way I think about ...