The Film Stage

First Look at Park Chan-wook’s No Other Choice Arrives as Five-Month Shoot Wraps

It's shaping up to be a major year for South Korean cinema as Hong Sang-soo and Bong Joon Ho get ready for Berlinale premieres of their latest work and later t...

A David Lynch Short Film From 2018 is Now Available to Watch for the First Time

Four days on and the passing of David Lynch still feels unreal, leaving behind a legacy of work that is an entire universe onto itself. Like many others, I've ...

Broken Rage Trailer: Takeshi Kitano’s Crime Comedy Comes to Prime Video This February

While we still await a U.S. release for Takeshi Kitano's samurai epic Kubi, his latest film is getting a worldwide release next month. Broken Rage, which premi...

February on the Criterion Channel Includes Argentine Noir, Joan Micklin Silver, Chantal Akerman & More

I consider myself something like a student, autodidact or otherwise, of cinema and––even still, must confess––had not ever grasped the concept of Argentine noi...

NYC Weekend Watch: Fat City, THX 1138, Anthony Mann & More

NYC Weekend Watch is our weekly round-up of repertory offerings. Roxy CinemaFat City screens on 35mm this Sunday, as does a 16mm puppets program; resto...

An Expanded Edition of Wong Kar-wai’s In the Mood for Love with Never-Before-Seen Footage Sets China Premiere

As we ponder if the rest of the world will ever see Wong Kar-wai’s 25-hour project Blossoms Shanghai following its premiere in China about a year ago, those in...

The B-Side – In Conversation with Julia Stiles on Her Directorial Debut Wish You Were Here

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

New to Streaming: Queer, Close Your Eyes, A Different Man, Red Rooms & 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...

David Lynch Has Died at 78

With incomparable sadness we have learned that David Lynch, in his time perhaps the greatest living filmmaker, has died at 78. Few artists have ever contrib...

Amnesiascope Presents Two Films from Japan’s Directors Company on January 30

When Kiyoshi Kurosawa, Shinji Sōmai, Gakuryū Ishii, and contemporaries needed to shirk themselves of the responsibilities and strictures driving Japan's studio...

News

NYC Weekend Watch: Michael Roemer, Wandering Women, David Lynch & More

Martin Scorsese and Leonardo DiCaprio Eye The Devil in the White City as Next Collaboration

Berlinale 2025 Adds Films by Richard Linklater, Radu Jude, Hong Sangsoo, Michel Franco & More

Trailers

SXSW Unveils 2025 Film Festival Lineup as Trailer for Last Year’s Top Winner Bob Trevino Likes It Arrives

Claude Lanzmann’s Monumental, Essential Shoah Returns with New Trailer and Poster Ahead of Berlinale Showcase

Exclusive Trailer for Japan Society’s Nobuhiko Obayashi Series Highlights Six ’80s Films

Reviews

Sundance Review: Cinderella Gets a Gruesome, Empathetic Body Horror Twist with The Ugly Stepsister

Flight Risk Review: Mel Gibson’s Claustrophobic Thriller is Never as Campy as It Should Be

Rose Review: Françoise Fabian Gets Lost in a Bouquet of Clichés

Features

New to Streaming: Nosferatu, Oh, Canada, The Girl with the Needle & More

The Everyman Appeal of Gerard Butler

The Best Movies Now Playing in Theaters

Interviews

Jonathan Rosenbaum on Selling His DVD Collection, Championing Raúl Ruiz, and the Role of a Critic

The Brutalist Composer Daniel Blumberg on the Ambitious, Intensive Process of Scoring Brady Corbet’s Epic

Mike Leigh on Hard Truths, Losing Dick Pope, and the Duty of an Artist

Podcasts

The B-Side – In Conversation with Julia Stiles on Her Directorial Debut Wish You Were Here

The B-Side – Al Pacino (with Mitchell Beaupre)

The B-Side – Jack Lemmon (with Mitchell Beaupre)

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First Look at Park Chan-wook’s No Other Choice Arrives as Five-Month Shoot Wraps

A David Lynch Short Film From 2018 is Now Available to Watch for the First Time

Broken Rage Trailer: Takeshi Kitano’s Crime Comedy Comes to Prime Video This February

February on the Criterion Channel Includes Argentine Noir, Joan Micklin Silver, Chantal Akerman & More

NYC Weekend Watch: Fat City, THX 1138, Anthony Mann & More

An Expanded Edition of Wong Kar-wai’s In the Mood for Love with Never-Before-Seen Footage Sets China Premiere

The B-Side – In Conversation with Julia Stiles on Her Directorial Debut Wish You Were Here

New to Streaming: Queer, Close Your Eyes, A Different Man, Red Rooms & More

David Lynch Has Died at 78

Amnesiascope Presents Two Films from Japan’s Directors Company on January 30