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The Film Stage’s Top 50 Films of 2022

For our most comprehensive year-end feature we’re providing a cumulative look at The Film Stage’s favorite films of 2022. We’ve asked contributors to comp...

The B-Side – Sam Raimi (with Josh Ruben)

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 they mad...

RRR, Decision to Leave, LCD Soundsystem, Crimes of the Future, EO & More Shortlisted for Oscars

Ahead of the nominations for the 95th Academy Awards, being unveiling on January 24, and the ceremony, taking place March 12, shortlists have been announced in...

A Hou Hsiao-hsien Masterpiece is Restored in New Trailer for Millennium Mambo

Slowly but surely the works of one of the greatest directors in cinema history are getting restored. On the heels of the recent Flowers of Shanghai revamp, Hou...

Of An Age Trailer: You Won’t Be Alone Director Goran Stolevski Returns with Queer Drama

One of the most curious cases in cinema this year was the reception of Goran Stolevski's debut feature You Won't Be Alone. While widely praised, even landing o...

Jafar Panahi Battles Oppression Through Filmmaking in U.S. Trailer for No Bears

A radically-defiant artist, Iranian director Jafar Panahi has been making some of the most vital––both artistically and politically––works of the last three de...

The TÁR Cinematic Universe Will Expand with New Short Film by Todd Field

Considering it is his first film in nearly two decades, it comes as no surprise that Todd Field packed quite a lot into TÁR––so much that it can't be contained...

The Criterion Channel Announce January Lineup: Early Mike Leigh, Kiarostami, Skolimowski, Johnnie To & More

What will be your first movie of 2023? If you're reading this it's likely you put some (let's be honest: too much) thought into what commences the cinematic ye...

First Details Emerge on Frederick Wiseman’s Next Film A Family Business

Never let age dictate decisions. Not when Frederick Wiseman, at a frankly daunting 92, debuted a narrative feature and has begun work on his 44th documentary. ...

Aftersun Leads Sight and Sound’s Top 50 Films of 2022

After delivering their once-in-a-decade poll featuring the greatest films of all time, Sight and Sound have now focused on the current year in cinema. Unveilin...

News

Exclusive: Paul Schrader’s Next Films Involve a Pederast Professor and a Wall Street-Set Erotic Thriller

2024 Gotham Awards Nominations Unveiled

Yokohama BJ Blues Makes U.S. Theatrical Premiere on November 11 from Amnesiascope

Trailers

First Trailer for Luca Guadagnino’s Queer Follows Daniel Craig Searching for a High

Ride a Dreamlike Musical Carousel in Exclusive Trailer for Signe Birkova’s Lotus, Partly Shot on a 1920s Camera

Raoul Peck Investigates a Photographer Pioneer in First Trailer for Ernest Cole: Lost and Found

Reviews

The Graduates Review: A Melancholic Look at a Community Bonded by Tragedy

AFI Fest Review: Robert Zemeckis’ Here Plays Like the Anti-Boyhood

AFI Fest Review: My Favourite Cake Finds an Autumnal Romance Blooming Under Iranian Authoritarianism

Features

Tony Leung, Johnnie To, and Chiara Mastroianni Talk Cinema’s Future as the 2024 Tokyo International Film Festival Begins

New to Streaming: Trap, One False Move, Rap World, Daaaaaalí!, The Remarkable Life of Ibelin & More

NYC Weekend Watch: Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors, Candy Mountain, Chantal Akerman, Azazel Jacobs & More

Interviews

Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat Director Johan Grimonprez on a Jazz-Fueled, Kaleidoscopic Vision of Displaced Blackness

The Making of the Indian Sci-Fi Box-Office Sensation Kalki 2898 AD

“100 Clichés Move Us”: Rumours Directors Guy Maddin, Evan Johnson & Galen Johnson on Finding Humor in a World in Crisis

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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