‘The Basics of Philosophy’ Review: Paul Schrader Does Some Deep — and Discomfiting — Thinking About a College Professor’s Guilt

When Paul Schrader’s new moral drama The Basics of Philosophy begins, we are on a fictional college campus where John (Jack Huston), a professor of philosophy, gives an introductory lecture about the meaning of his course. Soon after, we see him in his office with a female student, who is begging for a grade change….

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‘Balcanica’: When Music Is Outlawed in Afghanistan, a Conductor and His Son Must Leave All Behind (Exclusive Venice Trailer)

Nicola Sorcinelli is exploring timely, complex and emotional issues in his feature directorial debut, Balcanica, for which THR can exclusively premiere a first teaser trailer ahead of its world premiere in the Venice Days, or Giornate degli Autori, competition, the independent sidebar of the Venice Film Festival, later on Friday. “A human story of choice…

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‘Too Much Sugar’ Review: A Lively and Authentic Portrait of Small-Town America, in Which the Characters Become Masters of Their Own Stories

Director and editor Robert Greene continues to intriguingly blur the lines between fact, fiction and filmmaking in his new hybrid feature, Too Much Sugar, which premiered in Venice’s Orizzonti sidebar. Like his precedent efforts, Bisbee ’17 and Procession, Greene’s latest is an exercise in collaborative directing that employs real people to both be themselves and…

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‘Wild Horse Nine,’ With Sam Rockwell and John Malkovich, Gets Venice’s First Rapturous Reception of 2026

Martin McDonagh’s latest darkly literate, offbeat comedy drama Wild Horse Nine landed on the Venetian Lido by way of Easter Island Thursday evening, giving the world’s oldest film festival its first raucous standing ovation of 2026. Set shortly before the 1973 military coup in Chile, the darkly comic and soulful buddy movie features a cast…

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‘Eklipse’ Mixes the Autobiographical and Fictional to Explore AIDS Taboos and Fear of Social Exclusion

Austrian filmmaker Manuel Wetscher made a name for himself with such fiction shorts as 2018’s Four Seasons, 2021’s At Night When Mice Scream and 2022’s Magma. Then came the 2024 experimental short doc Richard, a particularly personal film. “I only learnt the real reason for my father’s death 10 years after he died,” reads a synopsis for the…

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Siri Hustvedt Enters the World of Witches and Peter Zumthor in ‘From Inside Out’ (Exclusive Trailer)

The Hollywood Reporter can exclusively unveil the trailer for Wim Wenders‘ From Inside Out — The Architecture of Peter Zumthor, the German director’s 3D documentary on the Pritzker Prize-winning Swiss architect, 14 years in the making. Filmed across more than a dozen locations over fourteen years and shot in cutting-edge 3D, From Inside Out moves…

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