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U.S. Trailer for Steve McQueen’s Epic City Symphony Occupied City

In a busy festival season, one's forgiven for not noticing Steve McQueen made a four-and-a-half-hour documentary about the city of Amsterdam vis-a-vis dueling ...

Where to Stream the Best Films of 2023

As 2023 winds down, like most cinephiles, we’re looking to get our eyes on titles that may have slipped under the radar or simply gone unseen, so—as we do each...

Matt Johnson’s BlackBerry Expands to Three-Part Television Event Coming This November

Among the best movies to kick off the summer movie season this past May, Matt Johnson's Berlinale and SXSW selection BlackBerry stars Jay Baruchel, Glenn Hower...

Steven Soderbergh’s Kafka Recut Mr. Kneff Sets U.S. Premiere

It's been so long since Steven Soderbergh announced his recut of Kafka––so long since the thing even premiered at TIFF––that one could assume it was no longer ...

Rodrigo Moreno on His Genre-Hopping Fable The Delinquents and the Importance of Taking Storytelling Risks

The Delinquents is the sort of pleasurable movie that never feels rushed, masterfully carrying a viewer along a variety of detours over its three-plus hour run...

Five Stand-Outs From the 2023 Busan International Film Festival

Presenting a total of 269 films, including 80 world premieres, the 28th edition of the Busan International Film Festival concluded earlier this month, closing ...

Listen to Robbie Robertson’s Killers of the Flower Moon Score

It was probably not anticipated that Killers of the Flower Moon would be Robbie Robertson's swan song, but he talked about it––his 11th collaboration with Mart...

The B-Side – Roger Corman (with Gavin Mevius)

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

Andrey Zvyagintsev, Jaume Collet-Serra, Carla Simon, Léa Mysius & More Set Next Films

Thankfully recovering after a brutal bout with COVID-19, Russian director Andrey Zvyagintsev will return with Jupiter. Variety reports the "politically-minded ...

NYC Weekend Watch: Jacques Rivette, H.P. Lovecraft, William Friedkin & More

NYC Weekend Watch is our weekly round-up of repertory offerings. Lincoln CenterA restoration of Jacques Rivette's long-rare L'amour fou is now playing. A...

News

Léa Seydoux, Lee Kang-sheng, Margaret Qualley, Steven Yeun, Natalie Portman, Armie Hammer & More Set Next Roles

Exclusive: Paul Schrader’s Next Films Involve a Pederast Professor and a Wall Street-Set Erotic Thriller

2024 Gotham Awards Nominations Unveiled

Trailers

First Trailer for Luca Guadagnino’s Queer Follows Daniel Craig Searching for a High

Ride a Dreamlike Musical Carousel in Exclusive Trailer for Signe Birkova’s Lotus, Partly Shot on a 1920s Camera

Raoul Peck Investigates a Photographer Pioneer in First Trailer for Ernest Cole: Lost and Found

Reviews

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

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

AFI Fest Review: My Favourite Cake Finds an Autumnal Romance Blooming Under Iranian Authoritarianism

Features

Tony Leung, Johnnie To, and Chiara Mastroianni Talk Cinema’s Future as the 2024 Tokyo International Film Festival Begins

New to Streaming: Trap, One False Move, Rap World, Daaaaaalí!, The Remarkable Life of Ibelin & More

NYC Weekend Watch: Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors, Candy Mountain, Chantal Akerman, Azazel Jacobs & 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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