The Film Stage

“The Hard Work Is In the Screenwriting”: John Sayles on Resourceful Filmmaking, James Cameron, and His TIFF Retrospective

The thing about filmmaker John Sayles is that he has done everything. Do you love Steven Spielberg's E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial or Tobe Hooper's Poltergeist? S...

I Want Your Sex Trailer: Gregg Araki Returns with Olivia Wilde and Cooper Hoffman

Making his long-awaited return to feature filmmaking after a 12-year absence, Gregg Aaraki was back at Sundance this year to premiere I Want Your Sex, an eroti...

Disclosure Day Review: A Soul-Searching, Spine-Tingling Blockbuster Triumph

Certain beliefs unite all of humanity. Take, for example, the idea that the extraordinary is possible. Or, even more, that the impossible is possible. Stev...

Whalefall Trailer: Austin Abrams Gets Trapped In the Belly of the Beast

Recently earning the high honors of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for his novel Angel Down, author Daniel Kraus' prior book Whalefall has been adapted for the...

Once Upon a Time in Harlem Teaser: The Documentary of The Year (and 1972) Arrives This October

Premiering at Sundance Film Festival earlier this year and recently stopping by Cannes, it'll be a remarkable year if there's a better documentary to arrive th...

Tribeca Review: Ponderosa Takes Enigmatic, Comic Aim at America’s National Myths

Family and belonging structure society to a mythical scale, their symbolic value readily plugged into ideologies categorizing the world into binaries—"us" and ...

Tribeca Review: The Revisionist Is a Comedy of Manners That Turns Convoluted

Alex Vlack’s The Revisionist has all the elements of a great comedy of manners before reverting to something quite obviously foreshadowed in the film’s opening...

The Piano Trailer: Jane Campion’s Palme d’Or Winner Returns to Theaters in 4K Restoration

Returning to feature filmmaking five years ago with The Power of the Dog, we've been waiting to see when Jane Campion will come back to the big screen. While n...

NYC Weekend Watch: Italian History, Universal Westerns, Black Cops & More

NYC Weekend Watch is our weekly round-up of repertory offerings. Film at Lincoln CenterHistory, Italian Style begins with Visconti's Senso and The Leopard, ...

The B-Sides of Goldie Hawn with Jen Johans

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. ...

News

The Criterion Collection’s September Lineup Features Leos Carax 4K Set, The Secret Agent, Richard Linklater, Satyajit Ray & More

Exclusive: Altered Innocence Acquires Restoration of Srđan Karanović’s Virgina for Fall Release

Japan Cuts Announces 2026 Slate Featuring Hirokazu Kore-eda, Gakuryu Ishii, Yoji Yamada & More

Trailers

Dreams in Nightmares Trailer: Shatara Michelle Ford’s Acclaimed Second Feature Arrives in August

Shinya Tsukamoto Goes to War In Trailer for English-Language Vietnam Film Mr. Nelson, Did You Kill People?

Barrio Triste Trailer: Bad Bunny Collaborator Stillz’s Bold Directorial Debut Arrives In July

Reviews

Tribeca Review: Sophia Takal’s Act One Feels Like a Lucid Nightmare

The Death of Robin Hood Review: A Portrait of the Outlaw as a Bald-Faced Lie

Tribeca Review: Here I’m Alive Is a Raw, Intimate Look at Messy New York Lives

Features

New to Streaming: Blue Film, I Am Frankelda, It’s Dorothy! & More

The Best Movies Now Playing in Theaters

NYC Weekend Watch: Douglas Sirk in 3D, The Organizer, Body Double & More

Interviews

Michael Sarnoski on His Favorite Robin Hood Films and the Character’s Violent Mythology

Read This: Wonderful and Strange Peaks, the Life of Hannibal Lecter, a Century of Hitchcock, Martin Scorsese’s Filmography & More

“The Hard Work Is In the Screenwriting”: John Sayles on Resourceful Filmmaking, James Cameron, and His TIFF Retrospective

Podcasts

The B-Sides of Goldie Hawn with Jen Johans

The B-Sides of Laurence Fishburne with Mitchell Beaupre

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

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“The Hard Work Is In the Screenwriting”: John Sayles on Resourceful Filmmaking, James Cameron, and His TIFF Retrospective

I Want Your Sex Trailer: Gregg Araki Returns with Olivia Wilde and Cooper Hoffman

Disclosure Day Review: A Soul-Searching, Spine-Tingling Blockbuster Triumph

Whalefall Trailer: Austin Abrams Gets Trapped In the Belly of the Beast

Once Upon a Time in Harlem Teaser: The Documentary of The Year (and 1972) Arrives This October

Tribeca Review: Ponderosa Takes Enigmatic, Comic Aim at America’s National Myths

Tribeca Review: The Revisionist Is a Comedy of Manners That Turns Convoluted

The Piano Trailer: Jane Campion’s Palme d’Or Winner Returns to Theaters in 4K Restoration

NYC Weekend Watch: Italian History, Universal Westerns, Black Cops & More

The B-Sides of Goldie Hawn with Jen Johans