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Andrei Tarkovsky’s Final Film ‘The Sacrifice’ Receives Trailer for Theatrical Restoration

After a gorgeous restoration of his landmark existential sci-f film Stalker earlier this year, another Andrei Tarkovsky masterpiece has been remastered and ...

U.S. Trailer for France’s Oscar Entry and Cannes Winner ‘BPM (Beats Per Minute)’

One of the most heart-stirring, transportive cinematic experience you can find this year is in France's Oscar entry, BPM (Beats Per Minute). Winner of the G...

The Film Stage Show Ep. 266 – Blade Runner 2049

Today, Michael Snydel, Bill Graham, and I begin to question who is real, what is real, and what reality even matters in the end. That's because we are talking about the new Denis Villeneuve film, Blade Runner 2049....

‘Star Wars: The Last Jedi’ Trailer: Rian Johnson Goes to Hyperspeed

If you follow director Rian Johnson on Twitter, then you might have already clicked out of this page, but if you don't mind potentially spoiling the complet...

‘Brawl in Cell Block 99’ Director S. Craig Zahler on Casting Vince Vaughn and Realistic Violence

We spoke with Zahler about how he goes about naming his movies, why he decided to cast Vince Vaughn to play his unstoppable, violent force and if he will ever make a movie that isn’t violent....

BIFF Review: ‘Marshall’ Depicts the Procedural Fight to Overcome Prejudice

It's hard to believe America's first black Supreme Court Justice hadn't yet earned the big screen cinematic treatment until now. Besides Thurgood Marshall appea...

BIFF Review: ‘Woman on Fire’ is an Inspiring Portrait of NYC’s First Openly Transgender Firefighter

I'm not sure anyone could have written a better script than Brooke Guinan's real life to truly focus on what it means to be a transgender person in a bigoted, "...

BIFF Review: ‘Train Driver’s Diary’ Has Bitingly Sardonic Wit and Authentic Melancholy

Whether a result of suicide, drunken stupidity, or sheer dumb luck, train drivers the world over kill people. You'd like to believe it's a rarity, but the truth...

NYFF Review: ‘Filmworker’ Fails to Probe the Man Behind Stanley Kubrick

Even well before his death in 1999, the life and work of Stanley Kubrick has been meticulously documented and expounded upon to such an extent that a cult of pe...

Posterized October 2017: ‘The Florida Project,’ ‘Wonderstruck,’ ‘The Killing of a Sacred Deer,’ and More

This monthly column focuses on the film industry’s willingness to capitalize on this truth, releasing one-sheets to serve as not representations of what audiences are to expect, but as propaganda to fill seats....

News

Japan Cuts Announces 2026 Slate Featuring Hirokazu Kore-eda, Gakuryu Ishii, Yoji Yamada & More

Alice Rohrwacher to Direct The Baron in the Trees; Next Film to Be Primarily Silent

Cristian Mungiu’s Fjord Wins Palme d’Or: See Full List of Cannes 2026 Winners

Trailers

Marcello Mastroianni Yearns In Trailer for 4K Restoration of Luchino Visconti’s White Nights

Exclusive Trailer for Greg Vrotsos’ Feature Debut Situations Follows a Journey of Love and Ambition in Los Angeles

Reviews

Cemre Paksoy’s Hands Are Tied In Trailer for Georgia Bernstein’s Sinister Sundance Favorite Night Nurse

Tribeca Review: Here I’m Alive Is a Raw, Intimate Look at Messy New York Lives

I Am Frankelda Review: Mexico’s First Stop-Motion Feature Speaks Truth to Power

Features

The Film Stage’s 2026 Tribeca Festival Portrait Gallery

NYC Weekend Watch: Italian History, Universal Westerns, Black Cops & More

Posterized June 2026: Maddie’s Secret, The Furious, Drunken Noodles & More

Interviews

“The Hard Work Is In the Screenwriting”: John Sayles on Resourceful Filmmaking, James Cameron, and His TIFF Retrospective

The Currents Director Milagros Mumenthaler on Sensory Filmmaking, Motherhood, and Capturing an Internal State

“Making Movies Should Be a Pleasure”: Olivier Assayas on The Wizard of the Kremlin

Podcasts

The B-Sides of Goldie Hawn with Jen Johans

The B-Sides of Laurence Fishburne with Mitchell Beaupre

The B-Sides of Eddie Murphy with Nicholas Gray and Alvin Keith

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