When the director of the modern weird, Yorgos Lanthimos, teamed up with frequent collaborator and muse Emma Stone on their wild, conspiratorial environmental-extraterrestrial film, Bugonia, they drew inspiration from a little-known source: a 2003 Korean film called Save the Green Planet. If you walked away from Lanthimos’ deliciously odd and of-the-moment movie, wondering if it […]
Emma Stone’s ‘Bugonia’ Haircut Was Done in One Take
Shaving the head of a two-time Oscar-winning actress is serious business. If there are any mistakes whatsoever, it’s not like you can grow the hair back and do it again. So, it probably goes without saying that for Bugonia, shaving Emma Stone’s head was done in one take but, hearing it from her, the stress […]
Yorgos Lanthimos Talks the Balancing Act of His Weird, Wonderful Sci-Fi Mystery ‘Bugonia’
Bugonia is a movie that, once you see it, you’ll want to watch it again almost immediately. The films of director Yorgos Lanthimos are often like that—weird, rewatchable, immaculate—but Bugonia is different. It’s more pertinent. More intense. And more surprising than maybe all of his previous work combined. Which is saying something. In the film, […]
Not Everyone at the All-Bald ‘Bugonia’ Screening Had to Go Bald
Fans who attended a recent screening of the new film Bugonia got both good news and bad news. The good news? Bugonia is legitimately awesome, and surely, they enjoyed the wild ride. The bad news? They probably could’ve left with their hair. Earlier this week, Focus Features held a clever marketing screening for the new […]
Wanna See ‘Bugonia’ Early? Go Bald!
There was a gimmicky movie screening to see The Long Walk, and now the upcoming Bugonia is doing one of its own. Anyone living in LA who wants to see Yorgos Lanthimos’ absurdist comedy before everyone else can do so on Monday, October 20 at the Culver Theater at 8 PM. Tickets are free, but there’s […]
A New ‘Bugonia’ Trailer Leans Heavy Into That Alien Question
It was last summer when Focus Features announced Bugonia, the latest film from director Yorgos Lanthimos. That alone is enough to get anyone excited, as Lanthimos has long established himself as a filmmaker whose work you turn up to, no matter what. But then, the film had this tagline, and instantly, we were hooked: “Two […]
Yorgos Lanthimos’ New Film Puts Emma Stone at the Center of an Alien Environmentalist Conspiracy
Director Yorgos Lanthimos has made a habit of collaborating with Emma Stone specifically on dark comedy dramas with light sci-fi themes, such as 2023’s Poor Things and 2024’s Kinds of Kindness. And the trailer for their latest team-up, Bugonia, contains much of the same eclecticism, setting up a paranoia thriller that’s equal parts about environmentalism and […]
The 20 Films We’re Most Excited About to Close Out the Year
Guillermo del Toro. James Cameron. Edgar Wright. These are just some of the filmmakers who still have major, exciting genre films coming to your eyeballs before the end of 2025. So while the big, blockbuster-heavy summer season might be over, there is still a lot to be excited about as we look towards fall and […]