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Jake Gyllenhaal and Dar Salim on Guy Ritchie’s The Covenant and Learning from Jarhead

Twenty-three years into this new millennium, the war film genre feels at once antiquated and freshly-evolving. Guy Ritchie's The Covenant plays like a bridge b...

The B-Side – In Conversation with Richard Dreyfuss

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

Penélope Cruz Guides Her Trans Son in U.S. Trailer for Acclaimed Drama L’immensità

A selection at Venice Film Festival and Sundance Film Festival, Emanuele Crialese's 1970s-set drama L’immensità follows Clara (Penélope Cruz) and her emotional...

To Catch a Killer Review: Damian Szifron’s Crime Procedural is Torn Between Genre Requirements and Loftier Aspirations

To Catch a Killer’s logline is about as familiar as its title: a rookie cop with a detective's intelligence and drive, Eleanor Falco (Shailene Woodley) finds h...

Nathan Lane on His Interpretation of Beau Is Afraid, Disagreeing with Ari Aster, and Making Joaquin Phoenix Laugh

Among the strange cast of characters Beau (Joaquin Phoenix) meets on his nightmarish journey through the mind of Ari Aster, perhaps the most memorable is Natha...

György Fehér’s Twilight, a Hungarian Noir Masterpiece, Gets Restored

Upon completing duties as a debut screenwriter, Friedrich Dürrenmatt celebrated a job well done by promptly rewriting the whole thing. The Swiss playwright and...

U.S. Trailer for Ashley McKenzie’s Acclaimed Queer Coming-of-Age Drama Queens of the Qing Dynasty

One of the films we hoped would get distribution at the start of the year was Ashley McKenzie's Werewolf follow-up Queens of the Qing Dynasty, a selection at B...

Guy Ritchie’s The Covenant Review: Dar Salim Shines in Military Action Throwback

What can one say about the career of Guy Ritchie? The guy was nearly as essential to the rejuvenation of the British film scene in the '90s as Danny Boyle. His...

Trenque Lauquen Director Laura Citarella on Crafting an Ever-Changing Epic and Being Inspired by Agnès Varda

Argentinian writer-director Laura Citarella, part of the film collective El Pampero Cine responsible for such monumental work as La Flor, presented her third f...

The Film Stage & Bleeding Edge Present the Toronto Premiere of Bertrand Bonello’s Coma This May

Few––I mean one or two––films from last year were equal to Bertrand Bonello's Coma. It also never got a theatrical release. Though I'd try offering some explan...

News

Bertand Bonello, Takashi Miike, Nikyatu Jusu, and More Plan Next Features

James Gray to Direct Adam Driver, Jeremy Strong, and Anne Hathaway in Paper Tiger

Tarsem Singh, Jaume Collet-Serra, Kim Jee-woon, Paul W.S. Anderson & More Set Next Films

Trailers

Armand Trailer: Renate Reinsve Leads Norway’s Oscar Contender

Oh, Canada Trailer: Richard Gere Reflects on His Life in Paul Schrader’s Poignant Drama

Billy Zane Transforms into Marlon Brando in First Trailer for Waltzing with Brando

Reviews

Riga Review: Dreamy Stereoscopic 3D Folk Tale Twittering Soul is One of a Kind

Riga Review: Saulė Bliuvaitė’s Locarno-Winning Toxic Will Worm Its Way Inside You

AFI Fest Review: September 5 is a Competent But Bloodless Thriller

Features

New to Streaming: A Different Man, The Outrun, My Old Ass, Used Cars & More

Five Highlights from the 2024 Tokyo International Film Festival

The Best Movies Now Playing in Theaters

Interviews

NYC Weekend Watch: Ken Kelsch, Il Grido, Flesh for Frankenstein 3D & More

“Life Is Worth Celebrating”: Tyler Taormina on Christmas Eve in Miller’s Point

Kani Kusruti on All We Imagine as Light, Girls Will Be Girls, and Indian Moviegoing Culture

Podcasts

The B-Side – Vincent Price (with Gavin Mevius)

The B-Side – Tim Burton (with Maria Lewis)

The Film Stage Show Farewell Episode – Megalopolis

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