There's a melancholy to Tobias Nölle and Loran Bonnardot's Tristan Forever that is comforting. A lingering, existential question hangs over everything: where d...
Welcome to The B-Side! Here we talk about movie stars! Not the movies that made them famous or kept them famous, but the ones that they made in between. And so...
What exactly is artificial intelligence? Where does it come from? And precisely how powerful is (or will) it become? Valerie Veatch's documentary Ghost in the ...
Carousel is a movie out of time. Working with Chris Pine and Jenny Slate, writer-director Rachel Lambert has constructed a delicate, patient, slice-of-life pic...
Welcome to The B-Side! Here we talk about movie stars! Not the movies that made them famous or kept them famous, but the ones that they made in between.
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The extended opening of The Incomer, written and directed by Louis Paxton, is very funny and engaging. That the film never reaches those heights again is somet...
The best thing about Brydie O’Connor's documentary Barbara Forever is how it functions as an interesting, engaging movie on its own terms. It concerns the ...
"Will your oceans be made of our glaciers?" Icelandic poet Andri Snær Magnason asks in the narration that plays over Time and Water, the beautiful new docu...
J.M. Harper's Soul Patrol is a compelling account of the Vietnam War’s first Black special operations team, told 50 years later. An onslaught of mixed mediums,...
When will this end? When will this bloodshed stop? And when will the United States of America stop supporting it? Filmmaker Poh Si Teng offers a clear-eyed, un...
Dan Mecca is the co-founder and managing editor of The Film Stage. He is a producer and filmmaker living in Pittsburgh. He watches a lot of movies and tracks them on Letterboxd.
