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NYC Weekend Watch: Kijū Yoshida, Matthew Modine, Todd Haynes, Ennio Morricone & More

NYC Weekend Watch is our weekly round-up of repertory offerings. Film at Lincoln CenterThe films of Kijū Yoshida are now playing in a massive retrospective....

New to Streaming: May December, The Holdovers, What Happens Later, Beyond Utopia, and More

Each week we highlight the noteworthy titles that have recently hit streaming platforms in the United States. Check out this week’s selections below and past r...

14 Films to See in December

It's the final month of the year, which means much of our attention will be turned to sharing various best-of-2023 rundowns throughout December. The month also...

The B-Side – In Conversation with The Fugitive Director Andrew Davis

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...

La Syndicaliste Review: Isabelle Huppert-Led Procedural Works as Companion Piece to Elle

I’ll admit I didn’t expect to see an overt Vertigo homage in the middle of this rather matter-of-fact Isabelle Huppert procedural. Fixating for a second on the...

Cahiers du cinéma’s Top 10 Films of 2023 Includes Trenque Lauquen, Fallen Leaves, and Anatomy of a Fall

Established in the 1950s by André Bazin, Joseph-Marie Lo Duca, and Jacques Doniol-Valcroze, France’s Cahiers du cinéma has been a bastion for international fil...

Shayda Review: Australia’s Oscar Entry is a Well-Realized Debut Touching on a Raw Nerve of Trauma

Director Noora Niasari’s debut Shayda––and Australia’s submission for Best International Feature at next year’s Oscars––is quite literally a lifetime in the ma...

Furiosa Trailer: George Miller Brings Us Back to the Apocalypse

Amidst the year-end lists, catch-up for year-end lists, and efforts not to think about year-end lists, it's with a heavy heart I announce we must start thinkin...

The Road to a Masterpiece: The Radical Cinema of Kijū Yoshida

There was a time when Japanese filmmaker Kijū Yoshida was a cinephile’s mark of exquisite taste. While not entirely obscure, his work has been less-discussed t...

Isabelle Huppert on How Every Performance Is Like Acting for the First Time

Isabelle Huppert is one of cinema's most fearless and compelling performers: she can be both powerfully raw and impenetrably composed at once. It is even more ...

News

Japan Cuts Announces 2026 Slate Featuring Hirokazu Kore-eda, Gakuryu Ishii, Yoji Yamada & More

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

Trailers

Cemre Paksoy’s Hands Are Tied In Trailer for Georgia Bernstein’s Sinister Sundance Favorite Night Nurse

Marcello Mastroianni Yearns In Trailer for 4K Restoration of Luchino Visconti’s White Nights

Exclusive Trailer for Greg Vrotsos’ Feature Debut Situations Follows a Journey of Love and Ambition in Los Angeles

Reviews

The Death of Robin Hood Review: A Portrait of the Outlaw as a Bald-Faced Lie

Tribeca Review: Here I’m Alive Is a Raw, Intimate Look at Messy New York Lives

I Am Frankelda Review: Mexico’s First Stop-Motion Feature Speaks Truth to Power

Features

The Best Movies Now Playing in Theaters

NYC Weekend Watch: Douglas Sirk in 3D, The Organizer, Body Double & More

The Film Stage’s 2026 Tribeca Festival Portrait Gallery

Interviews

“The Hard Work Is In the Screenwriting”: John Sayles on Resourceful Filmmaking, James Cameron, and His TIFF Retrospective

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

Podcasts

The B-Sides of Goldie Hawn with Jen Johans

The B-Sides of Laurence Fishburne with Mitchell Beaupre

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

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