If a legend like Liv Ullman can have imposter syndrome, what does it mean for the rest of us mere mortals? Throughout Liv Ullmann: A Road Less Travelled, it's ...
Throughout the five years in which Lyndon B. Johnson was the President of the United States, his First Lady––Claudia Alta "Lady Bird" Johnson––took note of eve...
The best moments of Merchant Ivory––a documentary directed by Stephen Soucy concerning the legendary production company––feel like their most-successful pictur...
There are so many scenes in A Still Small Voice that will stay with viewers. Or at least it feels that way. In truth, the 90-minute documentary mostly consists...
Welcome to The B-Side from The Film Stage. Here we usually talk about movie stars! Not the movies that made them famous or kept them famous, but the ones that ...
Welcome to The B-Side from The Film Stage. Here we talk about movie stars! Not the movies that made them famous or kept them famous, but the ones that they mad...
When does a sense of adventure turn into madness? The Mission, a new documentary from Jesse Moss and Amanda McBaine, attempts to ask and answer this question i...
There's a moment in the middle of Bill Oliver's Our Son where Nicky (Luke Evans) explains to his father (Michael Countryman) that he's going to court with his ...
Welcome to The B-Side, from The Film Stage. Here we talk about movie stars! Not the movies that made them famous or kept them famous, but the ones that they ma...
For much of Karim Amer's reliably efficient documentary Defiant we follow Dmytro Kuleba, Minister of Foreign Affairs in Ukraine. Following Russia's invasion in...
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.
