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First Trailer for Amy Winehouse Biopic Back to Black

Marking her first film in six years, Sam Taylor-Johnson returns this year with Back to Black, a biopic depicting the life of the late Amy Winehouse. Led by Mar...

The Beekeeper Review: Jason Statham Pollinates David Ayer’s Actioner with Immense Appeal

It’s the time of year for smooth-brained relaxation. Moviegoers can recover from the holidays with the comfort of knowing Gerard Butler, Liam Neeson, or Jason ...

Will Menaker on the Year in Cinema: Oppenheimer, Scorsese, Friedkin & Beyond

I could ask whether or not the world needs another movie podcast but it might be a bad start posing questions to which we both know the answer. Still, Movie Mi...

David Lynch’s Recovered Dune Messiah Script Offers a Window Into the Never-Made Sequel

Too early to call this the discovery of 2024? If we never get another David Lynch movie, series, or short film shot on consumer-grade DV, this is just about ou...

Leonardo DiCaprio, Sean Penn & Regina Hall Confirmed to Star in Paul Thomas Anderson’s Next Film

At long last we have confirmation on casting for Paul Thomas Anderson's next feature. Back in 2022, it was revealed that his Licorice Pizza follow-up was plann...

Exclusive Trailer for Restored James Baldwin Documentary I Heard It Through the Grapevine Charts a Hero’s Life

This summer marks the centennial of James Baldwin, whose brilliance, boldness, and bravura have made him the rare Civil Rights icon who's also endured as subje...

Caleb Hammond’s Top 10 Films of 2023

Following The Film Stage's collective top 50 films of 2023, as part of our year-end coverage, our contributors are sharing their personal top 10 lists. From...

U.S. Trailer for Venice Winner Skin Deep Invites You to See the World Through Another Body

One of our favorite films coming out of Venice Film Festival back in 2022, where it won the Queer Lion award, Alex Schaad's feature debut Skin Deep will now ar...

Watch: Emmanuel Lubezki Captures the Earth in The Knowing Short, Utilizing Sony’s New Camera

While it's unlikely we'll ever see a reunion between one of the greatest creative partnerships of the century thus far––that of director Terrence Malick and ci...

Martin Scorsese to Adapt Shūsaku Endō’s A Life of Jesus This Year

Orders from the Pope make a Catholic work quick: right after Killers of the Flower Moon's Cannes premiere Martin Scorsese visited Pope Francis and, in his own ...

News

James Gray to Direct Adam Driver, Jeremy Strong, and Anne Hathaway in Paper Tiger

Tarsem Singh, Jaume Collet-Serra, Kim Jee-woon, Paul W.S. Anderson & More Set Next Films

Metrograph Launches Print Publication with Inaugural Issue Featuring Ryusuke Hamaguchi, Clint Eastwood, Ari Aster & More

Trailers

Michel Gondry Returns to Animation in First Trailer for Maya, Give Me a Title

Steven Soderbergh Tells a Ghost Story in New Trailer for Presence

Exclusive Trailer for Jōhatsu, a Lithuanian Thriller Exploring a Japanese Phenomenon

Reviews

Juror #2 Review: Courtroom Thriller Represents the Best from Clint Eastwood’s Late Era

The Graduates Review: A Melancholic Look at a Community Bonded by Tragedy

AFI Fest Review: Robert Zemeckis’ Here Plays Like the Anti-Boyhood

Features

Tokyo International Film Festival Artistic Director Ichiyama Shôzô Offers Insight Into a Growing Organization

Posterized November 2024: A Traveler’s Needs, Queer, Flow, Bird & More

New to Streaming: Catherine Breillat, The Substance, Last Things, The Apprentice, and More

Interviews

“Nobody Ever Gave Me Anything”: Alan Rudolph on Robert Altman, Bruce Willis, Kurt Vonnegut, and Resurrecting Breakfast of Champions

Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat Director Johan Grimonprez on a Jazz-Fueled, Kaleidoscopic Vision of Displaced Blackness

The Making of the Indian Sci-Fi Box-Office Sensation Kalki 2898 AD

Podcasts

The B-Side – Vincent Price (with Gavin Mevius)

The B-Side – Tim Burton (with Maria Lewis)

The Film Stage Show Farewell Episode – Megalopolis

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