Written by Pia Stoffers Behind the scenes with Alexander Denysenko, Winner of The Best European Independent Music Video at ÉCU 2025 Each of us has probably watched a music video by any favorite artist that fascinates us, lingering in our minds for days. Music videos are, especially nowadays, a central part of pop culture around […]
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As I write today's post, we are a week away from the lineup announcement. The easy work is done with Toronto, New York and Venice all revealing information from which we can infer probable films playing in Telluride. We're now in a phase where the sleuthing comes down to scraps of information online or from behind the...
(L–R) Topher Grace, Cristin Milioti, Delaney Quinn, Casper Kelly, and Keegan-Michael Key pose with the character Buddy at the “Buddy” Premiere during the 2026 Sundance Film Festival at Library Center Theatre on January 22, 2026, in Park City, Utah. (Photo by Dia Dipasupil/Getty Images) By Adam Silverstein Imagine your favorite cuddly kids’ TV character growing […]
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SCAD Savannah Film Festival returns for its 29th year on Oct. 24 through Oct. 31. The eight-day university-led festival in Georgia will host exclusive screenings, competition films, feature films, documentaries, shorts, animated films, panel discussions and workshops. Visiting industry professionals and students of SCAD School of Film and Acting and School of Animation and Motion […]
Nobel Prize-winning writer Annie Ernaux, Pink Floyd co-founder Roger Waters and directors Isabel Coixet and Matteo Garrone are among signatories of an open letter issued on Friday calling for the Venice Film Festival “to take concrete action in support of Palestine.” The open letter comes from the Venice4Palestine collective that took a similar initiative last […]
With wars still raging in the Middle East and Ukraine — and turbulence escalating globally — artists on the film festival circuit have been navigating political minefields. At the Berlin Film Festival in February, jury president Wim Wenders came under fire for saying that film directors should “stay out of politics” as he fielded questions […]
Sabu, the Japanese director of Venice and Toronto-bound “Arrested Memory,” says the film’s nearly two-decade journey to the screen – after stalled attempts to shoot in Germany, Korea, the U.S. and Japan – left it with more tension and poignancy than the version he first wrote. Variety is unveiling the first trailer for the film. […]
(L–R) Jeff Dutemple, Rachel Raimist, Fred Isseks, Amanda McBaine, Jesse Moss, David Birmingham, and Mike Regan attend the 2025 Sundance Film Festival premiere of “Teenage Wasteland” at Library Center Theatre on January 28, 2025, in Park City, UT. (Photo by Michael Hurcomb/Shutterstock for Sundance Film Festival) By Shelby Shaw Debuting in the Premieres section of […]
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No one tells Mike Leigh what his movie is about. Not financiers, not distributors, not even Netflix, which he says could fund him “without batting an eyelid” but never has. At 83, Leigh is exactly the man he has always been: an artist with integrity. He’s telling this story to prove it. At the Savoy […]
Critics Campus 2026 participant Guy Webster speaks to directorial duo THUNDERLIPS about medical misogyny, genre tropes, and finding the right balance between comedy and body horror in their outrageous feature directorial debut.