The Film Stage - Page 380

Kim Min-hee Will Take a Quiet Life in Trailer for Hong Sang-soo’s The Novelist’s Film

It was mere weeks ago we placed a possible Hong Sang-soo film on our 2022 most-anticipated list. If nothing was announced, anything could be expected—a year wi...

John Cameron Mitchell on the Inventive Process of Making Shortbus and Normalizing Healthy Depictions of Sex on Screen

For those of us around in the late 1990s and early 2000s, it was a wild time for American cinema. You wouldn’t know it by looking at what’s screening at the mu...

Franz Rogowski Wants to Know What Love Is in U.S. Trailer for Great Freedom

More than a surprise from last year's festival circuit—it sometimes seems anything that's not a big-ticket title but proves itself counts as "a surprise—Sebast...

Sundance Review: Living Cements Bill Nighy’s Legacy as a Living Legend

Let us then use this space to celebrate Bill Nighy. The Surrey-born performer made a name for himself in the National Theater in the '80s & '90s before exp...

Sundance Review: All That Breathes Takes a Powerful Cinematic Approach to Capture Climate Change

There’s no scarcity of documentaries on climate change; at the most recent Cannes Film Festival there was even a new program strand entitled “Cinema for the Cl...

Sundance Review: Brian and Charles is an Offbeat Comedy About a Sweet-Natured Friendship

Extended from the award-winning short of the same name, Jim Archer’s offbeat comedy Brian and Charles is borne of love and friendship. A sweet tale about a lon...

Sundance Review: Utama Asks for Death with Dignity in the Bolivian Highlands

Utama is about the effects of climate change and its particular impact on South America's indigenous communities, no doubt, but its other urgent subject depict...

Bruno Dumont Starts Shooting Sci-Fi Feature The Empire with Virginie Efira, Lily-Rose Depp & Adèle Haenel

Following up one of last year's best, most overlooked films, the Lea Seydoux-led France, Bruno Dumont has already embarked on shooting his next feature and not...

Sundance Review: Girl Picture is a Joyful, Predictable Coming-of-Age Collage

Mimmi (Aamu Milonoff), Rönkkö (Eleonoora Kauhanen), and Emma (Linnea Leino) are three ordinary girls trying to navigate the turbulence of teenage life. Mimmi i...

Sundance Review: Babysitter is a Dated But Ambitious Comedy of Bad Manners

A comedy of (bad) manners, Monia Chokri's Babysitter plays with myriad interesting themes, ranging from toxic masculinity to post-postpartum depression but ult...

News

Criterion Collection’s February 2025 Lineup Features Paul Thomas Anderson, Jean-Luc Godard, Crossing Delancey & More

Exclusive: New Restoration of Queer Drama By Hook or By Crook Acquired by Altered Innocence for Spring 2025 Release

Tilda Swinton Says The Room Next Door May Be Her Last Film as New Trailer Arrives

Trailers

Pamela Anderson is The Last Showgirl in First Trailer for Gia Coppola’s Drama

Exclusive U.S. Trailer for Endless Summer Syndrome Unveils Provocative French Drama

Beatles ’64 Trailer: Martin Scorsese Captures the Band’s First Visit to America

Reviews

Allen Sunshine Review: A Tranquil Debut Feature with a World of Feeling

Gladiator II Review: Ridley Scott’s Sequel Bests Predecessor By Going Dumb

Riga Review: Dreamy Stereoscopic 3D Folk Tale Twittering Soul is One of a Kind

Features

New to Streaming: Megalopolis, Rumours, Look Into My Eyes, An Almost Christmas Story, and More

NYC Weekend Watch: The Limits of Control, Ealing Studios & More

The Best Movies Now Playing in Theaters

Interviews

Payal Kapadia on All We Imagine as Light, Impermanence, Magical Realism, and Trilogy Plans

Barry Keoghan on Young Fatherhood, Loving La La Land, and the Movement of Andrea Arnold’s Bird

NYC Weekend Watch: Ken Kelsch, Il Grido, Flesh for Frankenstein 3D & More

Podcasts

The B-Side – Gwyneth Paltrow (with Cory Everett)

The B-Side – Vincent Price (with Gavin Mevius)

The B-Side – Tim Burton (with Maria Lewis)

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