We've always loved setting trends at The Film Stage and are accordingly chuffed that, nine months after we screened a 35mm print at the Roxy, Roman Polanski's ...
Winner of Locarno’s Best Director and Best Performance awards last year, Laurynas Bareiša's Drowning Dry went on to be selected as Lithuania’s entry for the Be...
While the idea of independent cinema has shifted to increase bigger budgets and scopes, a filmmaker who has stayed true to his punk roots is certainly Joel Pot...
Coming to theaters a year after its praised debut at Cannes Film Festival in its Un Certain Regard section, Julien Colonna’s first feature The Kingdom is a gri...
The film world was set alight when learning Johnnie To and Tony Leung would reteam for a Japan-shot gangster feature. (That collection of words sort of speaks ...
After back-to-back Mission: Impossible sequels were announced all the way back in 2019, the culmination of Christopher McQuarrie and Tom Cruise’s ambitious pro...
If Woody Allen never makes another film (whatever the recent rumors about a Barcelona project) Coup de Chance hits a passable, albeit minor final note that, in...
In a rather dire year for studio comedies, the one that most has our attention is a new take on The Naked Gun from Akiva Schaffer, the Lonely Island member and...
After releasing two films last year with Hit Man and the rather-overlooked God Save Texas: Hometown Prison, the ever-prolific Richard Linklater returns in 2025...
Expanding her scope (and color palette) after her dryly hilarious debut El Planeta, Amalia Ulman is back with Magic Farm. Starring Chloë Sevigny, Simon Rex, Al...
After graduating from Hampshire College with a degree in music theory, Leonard Pearce turned his passions to film and writing. He lives in upstate NY with his wife Laura and cat Tardi.
