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Sean Price Williams on Rejecting Cynicism with The Sweet East and Making Nick Pinkerton Laugh

For the past decade-and-a-half, cinematographer Sean Price Williams has been a staple of the New York indie-film scene, lensing features for (naming just a han...

NYC Weekend Watch: Kijū Yoshida, Matthew Modine, Todd Haynes, Ennio Morricone & More

NYC Weekend Watch is our weekly round-up of repertory offerings. Film at Lincoln CenterThe films of Kijū Yoshida are now playing in a massive retrospective....

New to Streaming: May December, The Holdovers, What Happens Later, Beyond Utopia, and More

Each week we highlight the noteworthy titles that have recently hit streaming platforms in the United States. Check out this week’s selections below and past r...

14 Films to See in December

It's the final month of the year, which means much of our attention will be turned to sharing various best-of-2023 rundowns throughout December. The month also...

The B-Side – In Conversation with The Fugitive Director Andrew Davis

Welcome to The B-Side, from The Film Stage. Here we talk about movie directors! Not the movies that made them famous or kept them famous, but the ones that the...

La Syndicaliste Review: Isabelle Huppert-Led Procedural Works as Companion Piece to Elle

I’ll admit I didn’t expect to see an overt Vertigo homage in the middle of this rather matter-of-fact Isabelle Huppert procedural. Fixating for a second on the...

Cahiers du cinéma’s Top 10 Films of 2023 Includes Trenque Lauquen, Fallen Leaves, and Anatomy of a Fall

Established in the 1950s by André Bazin, Joseph-Marie Lo Duca, and Jacques Doniol-Valcroze, France’s Cahiers du cinéma has been a bastion for international fil...

Shayda Review: Australia’s Oscar Entry is a Well-Realized Debut Touching on a Raw Nerve of Trauma

Director Noora Niasari’s debut Shayda––and Australia’s submission for Best International Feature at next year’s Oscars––is quite literally a lifetime in the ma...

Furiosa Trailer: George Miller Brings Us Back to the Apocalypse

Amidst the year-end lists, catch-up for year-end lists, and efforts not to think about year-end lists, it's with a heavy heart I announce we must start thinkin...

The Road to a Masterpiece: The Radical Cinema of Kijū Yoshida

There was a time when Japanese filmmaker Kijū Yoshida was a cinephile’s mark of exquisite taste. While not entirely obscure, his work has been less-discussed t...

News

Claire Denis and Arnaud Desplechin’s Next Features Secure Financing

2024 Buffalo International Film Festival Announces Lineup

MUBI’s October 2024 Lineup Includes Bertrand Bonello, Julia Loktev, Martin Rejtman & More

Trailers

Robert Eggers Brings the Gothic Horror in New Trailer for Nosferatu

Julianne Moore and Tilda Swinton Ponder Mortality in New Trailer for Pedro Almodóvar’s The Room Next Door

A Cat Faces the Wilderness in U.S. Trailer for Acclaimed Animation Flow

Reviews

Notice to Quit Review: A Father is Engulfed by the City He Lives In

TIFF Review: Sylvia Chang’s Wonderful Performance Lifts Up Daughter’s Daughter

Venice Review: Jerry Lewis’ The Day the Clown Cried Emerges in From Darkness to Light

Features

New to Streaming: Between the Temples, The Fall, Mountains, Wolfs, War Game, Sleep & More

NYC Weekend Watch: NYFF Revivals, Lancelot du lac, Robert Beavers, Gena Rowlands & More

The Best Movies Now Playing in Theaters

Interviews

“I Made It So I Could Breath”: Tarsem on Restoring The Fall, Distribution Woes, and the Next Chapter

The Substance Director Coralie Fargeat on Playing By Her Own Rules and the Strong Weapon of Humor

His Three Daughters Director Azazel Jacobs on Emotional Catharsis, Why He Can’t Shoot a Dying Scene, and the Craft of Acting

Podcasts

The B-Side – Barbra Streisand (with Chris Feil)

The Film Stage Show Ep. 549 – Beetlejuice Beetlejuice (with Trace Sauveur)

The Film Stage Show Ep. 548 – Janet Planet (with George W. Myers)

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