With each passing year, I lose less and less sleep over new releases. As of this writing on Dec. 30, I have logged 447 films on Letterboxd in 2014; the number...
On the one hand, Clint Eastwood's stage-to-screen adaptation of Jersey Boys is an exercise in Broadway fidelity: rather than re-cast the project with establishe...
One of Roman Polanski’s great abilities as a director is to turn tight spaces into adventurous cinema -- to evoke a feeling of claustrophobia without making...
It’s fitting that, following a year considered by many to be the centenary of Indian cinema, the Bengali director Satyajit Ray -- perhaps the country’s preeminent cinematic figure -- is continuing to make headlines....
Less than two months before its U.S. release, Guillaume Canet’s Blood Ties has finally received an official domestic trailer -- although the brief 90-second...
James Franco may have received near-universal praise for his show-stopping performance in Harmony Korine’s Spring Breakers, but his 2013 experience as a dir...
Rather than start the festival with a title that’s screening in Park City, Radius-TWC have kick-started their Sundance business by acquiring the North American ...
Closing out our year-end coverage is individual top ten lists from a variety of The Film Stage contributors, leading up to a cumulative best-of rundown. Make ...
2013 has been something of a banner year for the legacy of John Cassavetes, who would’ve turned 84 last week. In addition to the Blu-ray-upgrade Criterion p...
After directing Jeff Bridges to a Best Actor Oscar with 2009’s safe, humble, crowd-pleasing Crazy Heart, it’s admirable for writer-director Scott Cooper to turn...
