The Film Stage

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

Nickel Boys is the film of 2024. It’s expansive yet accessible. It’s violent yet pierced with seconds of warmth. It’s an adaptation that expands Colson Whitehe...

Blake Simons’ Top 10 Films of 2024

Following The Film Stage’s collective top 50 films of 2024, as part of our year-end coverage, our contributors are sharing their personal top 10 lists. 2024...

The Quiet Ones Trailer Captures the Largest Heist in Danish History

Premiering at TIFF earlier this fall, Frederik Louis Hviid's thriller The Quiet Ones captures the tale of the group that pulled off the largest heist in Danish...

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

After a major 2024 with the wider release of his blistering satire Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World (which nabbed a spot in our top 10) and the...

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

Canonized two years ago as the greatest film of all time, topping Sight and Sound's once-every-decade poll, Chantal Akerman’s Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commer...

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

Adrien Brody is the magnificent center of Brady Corbet’s intimate-yet-sprawling epic The Brutalist, giving the performance of his career as László Tóth, who em...

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

At long last, six years after Peterloo, the legendary Mike Leigh is back with one of the very best films of the year. Hard Truths––which we named one of our to...

Renate Reinsve Enters a Tangled Web In Trailer for Norway’s Oscar Entry Armand

After her 2021 breakout with The Worst Person in the World, Renate Reinsve’s 2022 and 2023 seemed fairly quiet, but she was working on no shortage of projects ...

Vulgar Auteurism Lives with Trailer for Paul W.S. Anderson’s George R.R. Martin Adaptation In the Lost Lands

It's been eight years since Paul W.S. Anderson's last proper theatrical release (Monster Hunter being a COVID film and all), but the fires of vulgar auteurism ...

Exclusive: Cannes and ND/NF Selection Lost Country Acquired by Altered Innocence

We're delighted to exclusively announce Altered Innocence has picked up all U.S. rights to Vladimir Perišić's feature film Lost Country, which was the winner o...

News

A David Lynch Short Film From 2018 is Now Available to Watch for the First Time

February on the Criterion Channel Includes Argentine Noir, Joan Micklin Silver, Chantal Akerman & More

An Expanded Edition of Wong Kar-wai’s In the Mood for Love with Never-Before-Seen Footage Sets China Premiere

Trailers

Broken Rage Trailer: Takeshi Kitano’s Crime Comedy Comes to Prime Video This February

Jaume Collet-Serra Returns to Horror in First Trailer for The Woman in the Yard

Peter Weir’s Landmark of Australian Cinema Is Salvaged In Trailer for Picnic at Hanging Rock‘s 4K Release

Reviews

Wolf Man Review: Leigh Whannell’s Effective Reboot Scares Up Hereditary Horrors

Emmanuelle Review: Audrey Diwan Subverts an Erotic Classic to Compelling, Alienating Effect

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

Features

NYC Weekend Watch: Fat City, THX 1138, Anthony Mann & More

New to Streaming: Queer, Close Your Eyes, A Different Man, Red Rooms & More

Eli Friedberg’s Top 10 First-Viewings of 2024

Interviews

The Brutalist Composer Daniel Blumberg on the Ambitious, Intensive Process of Scoring Brady Corbet’s Epic

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

Podcasts

The B-Side – In Conversation with Julia Stiles on Her Directorial Debut Wish You Were Here

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

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

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

Blake Simons’ Top 10 Films of 2024

The Quiet Ones Trailer Captures the Largest Heist in Danish History

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

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

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

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

Renate Reinsve Enters a Tangled Web In Trailer for Norway’s Oscar Entry Armand

Vulgar Auteurism Lives with Trailer for Paul W.S. Anderson’s George R.R. Martin Adaptation In the Lost Lands

Exclusive: Cannes and ND/NF Selection Lost Country Acquired by Altered Innocence