The B-Side in Conversation with Brian Koppelman

Welcome to The B-Side, from The Film Stage. Here we talk about movie stars and filmmakers and not the movies that made them famous or kept them famous, but the...

TCM is Bringing Their Classic Film Festival to Your Home

With movie theaters having to close their doors to curb the spread of coronavirus, it also meant many previously scheduled festivals had to cancel, postpone, o...

Cristi Puiu on Why Commercial Cinema is Propaganda, Respecting the Audience, and What Defines a Great Film

It's difficult to exactly quantify the impact of Cristi Puiu's second feature. The Death of Mr. Lazarescu is a film about an ambulance worker's attempts to get...

SXSW Review: For Madmen Only is a Hilarious, Energetic Biography of Del Close

Hillarious and well researched, Heather Ross’ For Madmen Only is an American Splendor-esque portrait of Del Close, a genius that is likely little known outside...

Brian De Palma Says Modern Filmmaking Has Lost a Sense of Beauty

While he didn't partake in any publicity for his latest film, the clearly compromised but no less entertaining Domino, Brian De Palma has granted the now-rare ...

Alejandro González Iñárritu to Return With New Film Shot by Bradford Young

Following the back-to-back Oscar winners Birdman and The Revenant–as well as being only the third director in history to receive consecutive Best Director awar...

Resistance Review: Jesse Eisenberg is Marcel Marceau in Effective Story of World War II-Era Rebellion

Marcel Marceau's first public performance was in front of three thousand troops after Paris was liberated during World War II. It wasn't some USO stunt, though...

The Five French Classics Wes Anderson Showed The French Dispatch Cast & Crew

If the saving of human lives somehow isn't enough to incentivize people yet to stay home to reduce the spread of coronavirus, this might help: by not doing so...

The Film Stage Show Classic – The Mask of Zorro

Welcome, one and all, to the latest episode of The Film Stage Show! Today, Brian Roan, Michael Snydel, and Bill Graham are joined by Dan Mecca to discuss The M...

Vivarium Review: Jesse Eisenberg & Imogen Poots Go House Hunting in Entertaining, Frightening Thriller

We all like to believe that we have some semblance of control over our lives. Do we, though? How much of our identity is dictated by social conditioning? Maybe...