The B-Side – In Conversation with Nancy Savoca
Welcome to The B-Side, from The Film Stage. Here we talk about movie directors! Not the movies that made them famous or kept them famous, but the ones that the...
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The Best Movies Now Playing in Theaters
We're thrilled to launch a new feature on The Film Stage highlighting our top recommendations for films currently in theaters, from new releases to restoration...
Kleber Mendonça Filho Sets Next Film The Secret Agent Starring Wagner Moura
Following up his documentary Pictures of Ghosts, Brazilian director Kleber Mendonça Filho has unveiled his first narrative feature since 2019's Bacurau. He'll ...
Jane Schoenbrun on I Saw the TV Glow, Trans Girl Time, Olivier Assayas, and Emma Stone’s Support
It's been a few months since I saw Jane Schoenbrun's I Saw the TV Glow at Sundance Film Festival and I haven't been able to shake its overwhelming, ultimately ...
The Contestant Review: A Breezy Look at a Baffling Reality Show Challenge
The tagline of Clair Titley’s The Contestant is “The naked truth about the world’s first reality star.” The show referred to is Susunu! Denpa Shōnen, which air...
Lisandro Alonso Will Revisit La Libertad for His Next, Potentially Final Film
Argentine master Lisandro Alonso teased his next feature at Space Not Time, a Los Angeles retrospective of his work. Speaking after a 35mm screening of the 200...
Léa Seydoux, Vincent Lindon, and Louis Garrel Hit Their Marks In Trailer for Quentin Dupieux’s Cannes Opener The Second Act
Cannes begins, against all reason, two weeks from today, and with it comes the trailer for this year's opening-night selection. (Arriving in French theaters th...
Ryûsuke Hamaguchi on Evil Does Not Exist, Being in Harmony with Nature, and Why the Ending is Realistic
On a bright summer day in a tent on top of the sultry clay courts that give the Tennis Club Venezia its name, writer-director Ryûsuke Hamaguchi––known for his ...
Christian Petzold Sets Next Feature Miroirs No. 3 Starring Paula Beer
On a streak like few other directors working today, Christian Petzold's mesmerizing, humorous Rohmer-esque drama Afire was the finest film of last year. The Ge...
17 Films to See in May
A month so staggering in quality new releases that a new Mad Max film from George Miller barely cracked the top five, May kicks off the summer movie season wit...