“In early 1995, a hiker went missing in the remote mountains of central Oregon,” reads the prologue over a gorgeous opening shot: a still, wide frame looking d...
With only two features under his belt, British musician Daniel Blumberg has already cemented his name in film history. After debuting scoring abilities on 2020...
Following The Film Stage’s collective top 50 films of 2024, as part of our year-end coverage, our contributors are sharing their personal top 10 list...
After the riot-induced death of her policeman husband in the badlands of North India, 30-something widow Santosh Saini (Shahana Goswami) is told she has nothin...
Remakes, reboots, and sequels are all the rage in Hollywood these days. Studios hand them out like candy to proven and unproven talent alike, but very few dire...
Fifty years after his screenwriting debut via Sydney Pollack’s The Yakuza and a mere forty-six since his directorial debut with Blue Collar, Paul Schrader is s...
“Are people born wicked? Or do they have wickedness thrust upon them?” The conundrum of theodicy has long plagued humanity, just as it’s plagued the Ozians of ...
In a mere two features, writer-director Payal Kapadia has emerged as one of India’s, if not the world’s, most significant filmmakers. Partly because of her rem...
“The world you’re about to see no longer exists. None of us knew what was about to happen.”
Writer-director Julia Loktev––whose 13-year hiatus from fi...
Five years, the closest presidential election in Brazilian history, and one insurrection after her last examination of Brazil’s tumultuous socio-political sphe...
A New York City film journalist by way of Austin, TX, Luke is an arts enthusiast who earned his master’s studying film philosophy and ethics at Duke. He thinks every occasion should include one of the following: coffee, whiskey, tea, gin, beer, or olives.
