As the narrator (Sparks' Russell Mael) tells his story of star-crossed love many moons away, we watch as violence (awkwardly comical, violent all the same) is ...
One of the most impressive films at Sundance Film earlier this year was the latest work from Emmy-winning and Oscar-nominated filmmaker Elaine McMIllion Sheldo...
One of the most puzzling (non-) happenings in international cinema this year is the lack of U.S. distribution for Philippe Garrel's stellar new drama The Ploug...
NYC Weekend Watch is our weekly round-up of repertory offerings.
Museum of Modern ArtFilms by Olivier Assayas, Jacques Rivette, Park Chan-wook, and Bon...
At a certain point you care less about world premieres and fixate mostly on a festival's repertory slate. And even by the high standards set with Cannes Classi...
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 ma...
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...
As with Depraved, writer-director Larry Fessenden returns to the world of classic, Universal-inspired monsters in Blackout. Whereas that title brought the myth...
Update: Unfortunately, we've heard from Gaspar Noé that the casting update is incorrect. We'll stay tuned for official updates on his next project.
After ex...
As we get ready to present a 35mm print of Rio Bravo at New York's Roxy Cinema next weekend I've been thinking a lot about the anecdote, once oft-told by the m...