The Film Stage - Page 324

Cristian Mungiu on R.M.N. as a Microcosm of the World and Why Cinema Isn’t a Teacher

If Cristian Mungiu isn't the most prolific filmmaker to emerge from Romanian cinema's gilded age, he does tend to cause a stir. Cristi Puiu was first in the do...

Vesper Trailer: Sci-Fi Feature Examines Survival After the Collapse of Earth’s Ecosystem

If Hollywood's sci-fi outings have left one a bit disappointed in terms of a lack of imagination, a more grounded genre outing looks to hit the mark. Lithuania...

First Trailer for Dan Trachtenberg’s Prey Expands the Predator Universe

Six years after breaking out with 10 Cloverfield Lane, director Dan Trachtenberg is back with his next feature, one which hopes to revitalize the Predator fran...

First Look at Cristi Puiu’s Dramatic Comedy MMXX

Following up his stellar, 3.5-hour drama Malmkrog, Romanian director Cristi Puiu has quietly completed production on his next feature. MMXX, a dramatic comedy ...

Exclusive Trailer for BAMcinemaFest 2022 Celebrates the Year’s Best in Indie Filmmaking

For those looking to experience the best that indie filmmaking has to offer, an eclectic NYC festival is now back in full force this month. After a consolidate...

Mia Hansen-Løve on One Fine Morning and Showing a Different Side of Léa Seydoux

For Mia Hansen-Løve, the 2022 Cannes Film Festival marked a few returns. A year on from premiering Bergman Island, Hansen-Løve screened One Fine Morning, the d...

Trailer for David Lynch’s 4K Restoration of Lost Highway is Here to Haunt Your Nightmares

While the brief, unfounded buzz that a new David Lynch film would premiere at Cannes proved to indeed be a pipe dream, this past year has brought the next best...

Christoph Waltz to Play Billy Wilder in Stephen Frears-Directed Drama

If there's one thing Hollywood likes almost as much as superheroes, it's Hollywood itself. Continuing the tradition, a new drama is now in the works telling th...

Cannes Review: Quentin Dupieux’s Skills as Raconteur Shine Bright in Smoking Causes Coughing

Teeming with all kinds of freaks and plots that toggle freely between the real and the absurd, Quentin Dupieux's films are the work of an inveterate, shameless...

Don’t Call it Body Horror: David Cronenberg on the Prescient Vision of Crimes of the Future

It’s mid-May at the Cannes Film Festival and David Cronenberg is relaxing on the roof of the J.W. Marriot Hotel. Two days earlier, his latest film enjoyed a ra...

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

The End Trailer: Tilda Swinton, Michael Shannon, and George MacKay Ring in the Apocalypse

Michel Gondry Returns to Animation in First Trailer for Maya, Give Me a Title

Steven Soderbergh Tells a Ghost Story in New Trailer for Presence

Reviews

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

AFI Review: Vermiglio Paints a Lyrical Portrait of Desires Constrained by Catholicism

Paddington in Peru Review: Threequel Fails to Climb to Franchise Heights

Features

Tokyo International Film Festival Artistic Director Ichiyama Shôzô Offers Insight Into a Growing Organization

Posterized November 2024: A Traveler’s Needs, Queer, Flow, Bird & More

New to Streaming: Catherine Breillat, The Substance, Last Things, The Apprentice, and More

Interviews

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

“Less Money, More Liberty”: Paulo Branco on a Cinematic Life with David Cronenberg, Manoel De Oliveira, and Raúl Ruiz

“Nobody Ever Gave Me Anything”: Alan Rudolph on Robert Altman, Bruce Willis, Kurt Vonnegut, and Resurrecting Breakfast of Champions

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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