The Film Stage

NYC Weekend Watch: Kazuhiko Hasegawa, Pynchonesque, Max and Richard Fleischer, the Pusher Trilogy & More

NYC Weekend Watch is our weekly round-up of repertory offerings. Japan SocietyKazuhiko Hasegawa's Anarchic Ethos features an ultra-rare print of The Man Who...

Exclusive Trailer and Poster for Bruno Dumont’s Red Rocks Captures Growing Up on the French Riviera

After his ambitious foray into harder sci-fi with The Empire, Bruno Dumont is returning to the coming-of-age film with his highly anticipated Directors’ F...

New to Streaming: The Drama, Send Help, Exit 8, and André Is an Idiot

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...

“Everything Is By Chance”: Tony Leung on Silent Friend, Léa Seydoux, and Ryûsuke Hamaguchi

Loving modern cinema and admiring Tony Leung are essentially a one-to-one deal. One can look no further than Film at Lincoln Center’s recent retrospective of t...

Our 20-Most Anticipated 2026 Cannes Film Festival Premieres

It's the most exciting time of the year for any cinephile: the Cannes Film Festival is set to kick off next week, running May 12th-23rd. Ahead of the festiviti...

The B-Sides of Eddie Murphy with Nicholas Gray and Alvin Keith

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

Silent Friend Review: Tony Leung Finds a Flora Connection

Note: This review was originally published as part of our 2025 Venice coverage. The film opens in theaters on May 8. Hungarian director Ildikó Enyedi is bes...

The Misconceived Review: Incisive, Inventive Look at Contemporary Life

Note: This review was originally published as part of our 2026 IFFR coverage. The film opens in theaters on May 8. Seven years after collaborating on The Pl...

Maddie’s Secret Trailer: John Early Crafts a Sincere Satire in Directorial Debut

In one of the most impressive tonal feats of the year, John Early's directorial debut Maddie's Secret––which finds the actor playing a woman juggling career dr...

Silent Friend Director Ildikó Enyedi on Capturing a Tree’s Perspective and the State of a Soul

In Silent Friend, characters from three eras interact with the fauna around them. In 1908, Grete (Luna Wedler) tries to study medicine at a time when women wer...

News

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Trailers

Exclusive Trailer and Poster for Lisandro Alonso’s Double Freedom Marks a Powerful Reunion

Isabelle Huppert and Delphine Seyrig Inhabit an Artist In Exclusive Trailer and Poster for Liliane de Kermadec’s Aloïse

The Rivals of Amziah King Trailer: Matthew McConaughey Leads Andrew Patterson’s Crime Thriller

Reviews

Cannes Review: Fatherland Finds Paweł Pawlikowski in a Heady, Aching Register

Cannes Review: Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma Is a Joyful Addition to Jane Schoenbrun’s Box of Mysteries

The Wizard of Kremlin Review: An Irrelevant, Cynical Approach to Vladimir Putin’s Russian

Features

New to Streaming: Yes, The Love That Remains, The Christophers, Project Hail Mary & More

The Best Movies Now Playing in Theaters

NYC Weekend Watch: Kazuhiko Hasegawa, Pynchonesque, Max and Richard Fleischer, the Pusher Trilogy & More

Interviews

“Making Movies Should Be a Pleasure”: Olivier Assayas on The Wizard of the Kremlin

“Everything Is By Chance”: Tony Leung on Silent Friend, Léa Seydoux, and Ryûsuke Hamaguchi

Silent Friend Director Ildikó Enyedi on Capturing a Tree’s Perspective and the State of a Soul

Podcasts

The B-Sides of Eddie Murphy with Nicholas Gray and Alvin Keith

The B-Sides of Chow Yun-Fat

Josh Heaps on the DIY Horror of City Wide Fever

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NYC Weekend Watch: Kazuhiko Hasegawa, Pynchonesque, Max and Richard Fleischer, the Pusher Trilogy & More

Exclusive Trailer and Poster for Bruno Dumont’s Red Rocks Captures Growing Up on the French Riviera

New to Streaming: The Drama, Send Help, Exit 8, and André Is an Idiot

“Everything Is By Chance”: Tony Leung on Silent Friend, Léa Seydoux, and Ryûsuke Hamaguchi

Our 20-Most Anticipated 2026 Cannes Film Festival Premieres

The B-Sides of Eddie Murphy with Nicholas Gray and Alvin Keith

Silent Friend Review: Tony Leung Finds a Flora Connection

The Misconceived Review: Incisive, Inventive Look at Contemporary Life

Maddie’s Secret Trailer: John Early Crafts a Sincere Satire in Directorial Debut

Silent Friend Director Ildikó Enyedi on Capturing a Tree’s Perspective and the State of a Soul