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Exclusive: Robert Daniels, Khushi Jain & Kelli Weston Selected for Unifrance Critics Lab at Cannes 2023

With the 2023 Cannes Film Festival less than two weeks away, we’re delighted to exclusively announce the second edition of the “Unifrance Critics Lab,” an init...

The B-Side – Russell Crowe (with Blake Howard)

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...

Ashley McKenzie on Queens of the Qing Dynasty, Asexuality, and Staying Focused as a Filmmaker

Canadian director Ashley McKenzie’s two features pivot around people caught up in traps. She’s a regional filmmaker, making work based in the communities of No...

Muad’Dib Awakens In First Trailer for Denis Villeneuve’s Dune: Part Two

No new movie of its size, scale, or hoped-for profit bears more potential than Dune: Part Two, which finds Denis Villeneuve adapting the (more or less) second ...

15 Films to See in May

If you've perused our summer movie preview you may already have a sense of what films to keep on your radar this month, but it's time to dig deeper into May. W...

U.S. Trailer for Charlotte Le Bon’s Feature Debut Falcon Lake Brings a Ghostly Love Story

Whether it's Michel Gondry's Mood Indigo, Robert Zemeckis' The Walk, The Hundred-Foot Journey, Anthropoid, The Promise, or last year's Fresh, chances are you'v...

First Trailer for Takeshi Kitano’s Epic Kubi Arrives Ahead of Cannes 2023 Premiere

One of our most-anticipated films in the Cannes Film Festival 2023 lineup is the latest work from Japanese filmmaker Takeshi Kitano. Kubi, set to debut in the ...

Celebrate Ryuichi Sakamoto’s Gifts to Cinema In Exclusive Trailer for Metrograph’s New Retrospective

Ryuichi Sakamoto's death sent waves of shock and grief alike, the rare passing that suggested losing some necessary force in the universe. It would be true for...

Apichatpong Weerasethakul on Evolving Cinematic Memories and a Shared Global Consciousness

It’s often said that the sign of a true craftsman is the ability to make complex tasks look effortless (there’s even an Italian phrase for this skill, “sprezza...

T.S. Eliot’s Four Quartets Review: A Masterpiece Recited & Reimagined For Our Perilous Times

Art made during COVID––more specifically during quarantine and before / at the very beginning of the vaccine rollout––will surely hold an added weight as histo...

News

Annie Baker, Lee Chang-dong, Danny Boyle & More Plot New Features

Radu Jude Reveals First Look at Next Two Features Dracula and Continental ’25

Exclusive: Marianne Jean-Baptiste is Unraveling in New Artwork for Mike Leigh’s Hard Truths

Trailers

Rounding Trailer: Ghostlight and Saint Frances Director Alex Thompson’s Psychological Thriller Arrives in February

The Quiet Ones Trailer Captures the Largest Heist in Danish History

The Greatest Film of All-Time Returns to Theaters with 50th Anniversary Trailer for Chantal Akerman’s Jeanne Dielman

Reviews

Every Little Thing Review: A Sensitive Portrait of a Great Woman’s Dedication to Hummingbirds

Den of Thieves 2: Pantera Review: A Heist Thriller That Would Make Jean-Pierre Melville Proud

From Ground Zero Review: Palestine’s Oscar Entry Is a Sobering Anthology Capturing Life During Wartime

Features

NYC Weekend Watch: To Save and Project, Donald Sutherland, Jonas Mekas & More

Caleb Hammond’s Top 10 Films of 2024

New to Streaming: Flow, The End, Pepe, Black Box Diaries & More

Interviews

Mike Leigh on Hard Truths, Losing Dick Pope, and the Duty of an Artist

“Cinema Could Be Grander”: Nickel Boys Director RaMell Ross on Perspectives, Contradictions, and True Intimacy

Adrien Brody on Pulling Personal History into The Brutalist, Overlooked Performances, and Acting with Beyoncé

Podcasts

The B-Side – Al Pacino (with Mitchell Beaupre)

The B-Side – Jack Lemmon (with Mitchell Beaupre)

The Film Stage Show Bonus Ep. – Box Office Bonanza (July 21, 2000)

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