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First Teaser Trailer! The Highly Anticipated 'Nosferatu'; A Robert Eggers Picture

Official Trailer 'Here' Robert Zemeckis' New Creation; Starring Tom Hanks and Robin Wright; The Camera Never Moves Throughout; New De-Aging Tech

New US Trailer 'The Arctic Convoy' Norwegian WWII Survival Movie

Isabelle Huppert in One-Woman Experimental Film 'Marianne'; Trailer

'Chinatown' Turns 50! Robert Towne Offers Major Update on David Fincher’s 'Chinatown' Prequel Series

No Mention of Roman Polanski in ‘Chinatown' 4K Release on Front or Back Covers

Video: Chinatown Commentary Track, Robert Towne and David Fincher

'The Bikeriders' Diaries; Director Jeff Nichols reveals how his new film, based on Danny Lyon’s seminal 1968 photo series of the Chicago Outlaws Motorcycle Club, came to be

Hollywood History, 12 Stories of Making 'Young Frankenstein,' 'Blazing Saddles' and More; Happy 98th Birthday, Mel Brooks!

Sensitive Materials, Wordsworth Donisthorpe, Blackmail, and the First Motion Pictures; Story of early cinema may have been different had Wordsworth Donisthorpe been better at blackmail; Inventor of a peculiar kind of film camera — and finds a fierce debate about the history of English wool combing

Sutherland (1935-2024): “Donald Sutherland’s performance is the gem of this flawed masterpiece”: Fellini's Casanova reviewed by Novelist Gilbert Adair in 1977 in Sight and Sound

Film School: Why Our Critic Justin Tanner Recommends This Classic!
'The Pumpkin Eater' (1964) directed by Jack Clayton, is an achingly brutal analysis of infidelity, jealousy and obsession starring Oscar nominated Anne Bancroft as a woman who can’t seem to stop having children; she is saddled with eight at the top of the film.
Her marriage to a philandering screenwriter (the always terrific Peter Finch), starts to disintegrate when she discovers his affair with her best friend (an unbelievably young Maggie Smith).
Harold Pinter’s script is strange and marvelous, and includes one of the greatest scenes ever captured on film: A Brilliantly unhinged monologue delivered to Bancroft while at the hairdressers by the deliciously named Yootha Joyce. Joyce’s character, a lonely desperate woman under an adjacent hairdryer, skitters between vapid sycophancy and blood curdling madness. Culminating with the ice cold delivery of the line “Ever have your skin clawed off?” Unforgettable.
While the ending isn’t as satisfying as it could be, the film does include a visceral fist fight between Bancroft and Finch that will leave you positively gasping for air.

'The Pumpkin Eater' (1964) Written by Harold Pinter; Starring Anne Bancroft, Peter Finch, James Mason, Janine Gray and Cedric Hardwicke

‘Game of Thrones’ Star Iain Glen Defends His Village in Trailer for WWI Thriller ‘The Last Front’ [Exclusive]

Review: 'The Bikerider's; A Slow but Enveloping Saga

The Perverse Magic of Long Ago: John Greyson on His Landmark Film 'Lilies' (1996)

Showrunner Noah Hawley’s Coens Obsession Still Fuels ‘Fargo’

Review ‘Last Summer’: A Fifty-Year-Old French Lawyer Has an Affair with Her Teenage Stepson in Director Catherine Breillat’s Radically Light Return to Form

Review 'MaXXXine' Ti West’s MaXXXine concludes his Mia Goth trilogy, but does the film deliver on the promise of the first two entries?

Official Trailer 'Between the Temples' Sundance Hit Comedy; Starring Jason Schwartzman and Carol Kane; Sweet Screwball

Official Trailer 'Flight Risk' Starring Mark Wahlberg, Michelle Dockery and Topher Grace; Directed by Mel Gibson

Official Trailer 'My Old Ass'; Written and directed by Megan Park; Starring Maisy Stella and Aubrey Plaza

Eddie Murphy Eyeing Big W with 'It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World' Remake; Aiming to recruit the top comedians of the past 30 years

Trailer 'It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World' (1963) Directed by Stanley Kramer; Starring Buddy Hackett, Spencer Tracy, Mickey Rooney, William Rose, Ethel Merman, Phil Silvers, Edie Adams, Tania Rose, Dick Shawn, Jonathan Winters

Tribeca Review: 'Slave Play. Not A Movie. A Play.' is a Documentary Self-Portrait of Various Works in Progress

‘Fantasmas’ Is Operating on a Level of Brilliance Beyond the Bizarre; Julio Torres' inspired new HBO series centers hamster nightclubs and sequined toilet seats while slyly crafting a vicious indictment of late-stage capitalism

Interesting! The Austin Film Festival’s 25 Screenwriters to Watch in 2024

Trailer 'Batman: Caped Crusader' Season 1; Executive Produced by J.J. Abrams, Matt Reeves

Final Trailer 'A Quiet Place: Day One'; Starring Lupita Nyong'o and Joseph Quinn

Trailer: 'The Union' Starring Mark Wahlberg, Halle Berry and Spy Intrigue with Laughs!

Official Trailer 'Caligula: The Ultimate Cut' Starring Malcolm McDowell, Peter O’Toole and Helen Mirren

Doc Restoration Trailer 'Burden of Dreams' (1982); Directed by Les Blank; Captures Legendary Director Werner Herzog’s Filming of His Most Ambitious Epic Film 'Fitzcarraldo'