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Mitchell Beaupre’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. Afte...

Andrew Haigh on the Intimacy, Complexity, and 80s Sweaters in All of Us Strangers

In English filmmaker Andrew Haigh’s All of Us Strangers, grief is overwhelming. Emotions run deep, relationships ebb within the span of a scene, and loneliness...

The Zone of Interest Star Christian Friedel on The Act of Killing, Multiple Viewings, and Jonathan Glazer’s Originality

How do you embody pure evil? While the discussion swirls regarding precisely how much Jonathan Glazer's The Zone of Interest is meant to humanize the Nazis, by...

Anyone But You Review: A Tame Rom-Com Built on Hallmark Movie Trappings

Early 2020s mainstream cinema may be continually dire, but even a fanatic like me is still willing to recognize patterns within. You can certainly place the ne...

Alistair Ryder’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. When...

Errol Morris and Michael Almereyda Plan New Documentaries

If it's been a patchy few years for Errol Morris––one solid doc in-between a bad Steve Bannon portrait and iffy look at John le Carré––our interest in his thor...

David Gordon Green Finally Hops Off the Horror Train, Now Filming Nutcrackers with Ben Stiller

Update: Linda Cardellini, Edi Patterson, Tim Heidecker, and Toby Huss have joined Nutcrackers, which has wrapped production. With a six-year-long stint in h...

Christian Petzold’s Favorite Films of 2023 Include Plane and Anatomy of a Fall

What do some of the directors of the best movies of 2023 think about the year in cinema? Films in Frame polled Christian Petzold, Justine Triet, Pedro Costa, V...

George Clooney and Joel Edgerton on The Boys in the Boat, Poughkeepsie, and the Speed of the Race

How do you make rowing look interesting? That's one of the challenges George Clooney faced with The Boys in the Boat, the new film based on the Daniel James Br...

First Trailer for Black-and-White Version of Godzilla Minus One, Opening in Japan Next Month

Update: Godzilla Minus One/Minus Color will open in U.S. theaters on January 26. See the trailer below. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g4nR1BI_33Y Nea...

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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