Horses are a peculiar and versatile animal in that, through the 5,000+ years that they have been domesticated, they have held a place in the hearts of mankind a...
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 ...
Performances aside, August: Osage County mostly directs itself. In adapting his own Pulitzer-Prize winning play, Tracy Letts has made a compressed-but-extremely...
“Question those who offer you simple solutions to big and complex problems,” advises one student speaking to his peers at a protest. Throughout At Berkeley, dir...
The blockbuster season has now officially passed, and gone with it are the nauseating evocations of the September 11th terrorist attacks that were present in so...
I never had the chance to attend New York City’s CBGB, “the birthplace of punk,” but if my first exposure to it were the film of the same name, I’m not sure I w...
It has been five years since the release of Jia Zhangke’s last feature-length fiction film, 24 City -- by far the longest gap between such features in his caree...
Omar, the latest from Paradise Now helmer Hany Abu-Assad, is quick to establish its own take. Following several close calls on the Israeli side of the West Bank...
To draw an easy comparison, Captain Phillips is this year’s Argo. Ben Affleck's Best Picture winner, though a highly suspenseful thriller, was also one in which...
