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Léa Seydoux and Guslagie Malanda in Bertrand Bonello’s The Beast (2023)

“He’s got a weathered, expressive sort of all-American look as well as the rolling yet emphatic vocal patterns of a man who, onc...

Robert Aldrich, Gaby Rodgers, and Ralph Meeker on the set of Kiss Me Deadly (1955)

Claire Denis, Radu Jude, Ryusuke Hamaguchi, Pedro Costa, and Joanna Hogg are among the directors who have made trailers for the

Gösta Ekman in F. W. Murnau’s Faust (1926)

A plague has struck a village in sixteenth-century Germany, and Faust, an aging alchemist, turns to prayer and science in his attempts to put a stop to the agony. To no avail. In a fit of desperate rage, he throws his books—including a massive leather-bound Bible—into a fire. The Bible was more than a p...

Sergei Loznitsa’s Imperium (2026)

“If ever there was a project for Sergei Loznitsa, this was it,” wrote Jay Weissberg in Variety when

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Gustav Fröhlich in Fritz Lang’s Metropolis (1927)

On January 10, 1927, Fritz Lang’s monumental sci-fi classic Metropolis premiered in Berlin. An exhibition, The Metropolis Century: Dystopia and Rebell...