Let's dispel the boilerplate ruminations on John Carpenter maybe, likely never directing another movie. Not enough that a retirement-of-sorts watching basketba...
The world of music has always been a central part of Todd Haynes' filmography, from his early days with Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story to his bold reimag...
Like clockwork (which is to say every three years) we get a new Dardenne brothers movie. If it's been two since Young Ahmed and we shouldn't expect an announce...
Far be it from the Film Stage to position ourselves as kaiju snobs or whatnot, but recent attention towards Godzilla vs. Kong felt like prime opportunity to re...
High among our list of most-anticipated films of 2021 is Claire Denis' Fire, which quickly went into production while her adaptation of The Stars at Noon got d...
Mank isn't the only film that Gary Oldman leads during this extended awards season. He also stars in Nicholas Jarecki's Crisis, which marks the director's firs...
The equally eclectic and fantastic cinema of Olivier Assayas makes picking favorites a fool's errand, but among many (yours truly included) there is a special ...
After unveiling the discs that will be arriving in April, including Bong Joon Ho's Memories of Murder, Olivier Assayas' Irma Vep, and more, Criterion has now a...
What Happened Was... is a lost classic of many stripes—the single-set movie, the bad-first-date comedy, the '90s American indie, the multi-hyphenate passion pr...
Following the recent restorations of Stalker, Andrei Rublev, and The Sacrifice, the latest Andrei Tarkovsky masterpiece to get the treatment is Mirror, his per...
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.
