The Film Stage

Cannes Review: Kiyoshi Kurosawa Spins an Entrancing Yarn with The Samurai and the Prisoner

Lord Murashige Araki (Masahiro Motoki) doesn’t like killing. A samurai presiding over Arioka Castle in 16th-century Japan, he’s a walking contradiction—a w...

Cristian Mungiu’s Fjord Wins Palme d’Or: See Full List of Cannes 2026 Winners

As the 79th edition of Cannes comes to a close, president Park Chan-wook and his jury of Demi Moore, Ruth Negga, Laura Wandel, Chloé Zhao, Diego Céspedes, Isaa...

Cannes Review: Radu Jude’s Diary of a Chambermaid Is a Humurous, Slight Meta Take on Mirbeau

Radu Jude has been rolling through features since his international breakout Aferim! in 2015, and his taste is nearly impossible to pin down. The films range f...

Cannes Review: With Coward, Lukas Dhont Sets Queer Love Story In Trenches of WWI

Cinema has taken viewers to the trenches of World War I so often that audiences might as well have formed sensory memories of a throat-clenching terror, the sc...

Cannes Review: La Bola Negra Feels Like an Epic, Long-Lost Novel

If 19th- and 20th-century storytelling was defined by grandiose literature, the 21st is all about cinema. We read less and watch more; consequently, films ...

Cannes Review: La Gradiva Is a Remarkable Debut of Extraordinary Sensitivity

Marine Atlan’s La Gradiva—winner of the Cannes Critics’ Week Grand Prize—begins from a familiar cinematic premise: a school trip abroad for a busload of re...

Cannes Review: Low Expectations Is an Accomplished and Bittersweet Debut

From A Star is Born to Vox Lux to Inside Llewyn Davis, cinema abounds with stories of jaded musicians who either burned too bright or never quite reached the h...

NYC Weekend Watch: Kim Ki-young, Popeye, A New Leaf & More

NYC Weekend Watch is our weekly round-up of repertory offerings. Film at Lincoln CenterA series of rare Korean cinema is on display in Celluloid Fever,...

Cannes Review: Steven Soderbergh’s John Lennon: The Last Interview Is a Breezy, Inessential Documentary

“We feel like this is just the start now, you see? I feel like nothing happened before today.” –– John Lennon It’s strange that Yoko Ono isn’t mentioned in ...

The B-Sides of Laurence Fishburne with Mitchell Beaupre

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

Alice Rohrwacher to Direct The Baron in the Trees; Next Film to Be Primarily Silent

Cristian Mungiu’s Fjord Wins Palme d’Or: See Full List of Cannes 2026 Winners

David Fincher’s The Adventures of Cliff Booth Sets Global IMAX Release This November

Trailers

David Wain Returns in First Trailer for Gail Daughtry and the Celebrity Sex Pass

I Am Frankelda Trailer: Mexico’s First Stop-Motion Feature Comes to Netflix This June

Fatherland Trailer: Paweł Pawlikowski’s Cannes Winner Arrives This Fall

Reviews

Forastera Review: Captivating Drama Explores Preciousness of Life

With Hasan in Gaza Review: Confronting Israeli Aggression with Grace and Memory

Time and Water Review: Mourning The Death of Iceland’s Glaciers and Much, Much More

Features

TCM Classic Film Festival 2026 Celebrates Immigrant Cinema In Hollywood

New to Streaming: Kontinental ‘25, Two Prosecutors, Two Women, Fuze & More

NYC Weekend Watch: Marilyn Monroe, Peter Hutton, Mysterious Skin, The Master & More

Interviews

The Currents Director Milagros Mumenthaler on Sensory Filmmaking, Motherhood, and Capturing an Internal State

“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

Podcasts

The B-Sides of Laurence Fishburne with Mitchell Beaupre

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

The B-Sides of Chow Yun-Fat

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Cannes Review: Kiyoshi Kurosawa Spins an Entrancing Yarn with The Samurai and the Prisoner

Cristian Mungiu’s Fjord Wins Palme d’Or: See Full List of Cannes 2026 Winners

Cannes Review: Radu Jude’s Diary of a Chambermaid Is a Humurous, Slight Meta Take on Mirbeau

Cannes Review: With Coward, Lukas Dhont Sets Queer Love Story In Trenches of WWI

Cannes Review: La Bola Negra Feels Like an Epic, Long-Lost Novel

Cannes Review: La Gradiva Is a Remarkable Debut of Extraordinary Sensitivity

Cannes Review: Low Expectations Is an Accomplished and Bittersweet Debut

NYC Weekend Watch: Kim Ki-young, Popeye, A New Leaf & More

Cannes Review: Steven Soderbergh’s John Lennon: The Last Interview Is a Breezy, Inessential Documentary

The B-Sides of Laurence Fishburne with Mitchell Beaupre