Welcome, one and all, to the latest installment of The Film Stage Show! Today, Michael Snydel, Bill Graham, and I welcome Jaime Smith to help us talk about ...
One could not ask for a better readymade metaphor than a massive construction site right next to a retirement home. Shevaun Mizrahi takes the image of new infra...
While the title suggests a beginning and the story likewise introduces the possibility of one, The First Lap is actually about a relationship that’s gone throug...
Algeria, Kythira island, and the Greek mainland. Three parts, three facets of globalization. Past, present, and possible futures. French-Algerian director Narim...
The title is the conceit. The ouroboros, the snake that eats its own tail, has symbolized the cycle of destruction and creation, endlessness itself, since ancie...
Shireen Seno's sophomore feature Nervous Translation confirms her place as a unique voice in a national cinema that often gets ignored, or distilled to only a f...
Yui Kiyohara's sophomore feature and Tokyo University of the Arts thesis film Our House begins with an almost transgressive scene that contrasts the ambiance of...
There must be something really frightening in a 50-year-old woman deciding to give up her role as diligent housewife and mother, especially when it is the only ...
Over the last half century, Al Pacino has revealed himself to be – quite objectively – one of our greatest performers, both on stage and screen. Along with his ...