The Film Stage

Mamoru Oshii’s Live-Action Debut The Red Spectacles is a Discombobulating Sci-Fi Experiment

When he’s not acting as pure imagemaker, Mamoru Oshii is, before anything else, a worldbuilder. One of Japan’s premier multimedia genre auteurs, his “worldview...

Train Dreams Director Clint Bentley on Natural Light, Shaping Narration, and Real-Life Inspiration

Through the eyes of itinerant logger Robert Granier (Joel Edgerton), Train Dreams traces America’s transition from a pioneer land firmly into an industrialized...

Costume Designer Catherine George on Working With Lynne Ramsay, Jim Jarmusch, and Bong Joon Ho

A couple of weeks ago, just moments after delivering a career-spanning masterclass at the Thessaloniki Film Festival, Catherine George sat down to talk to us o...

The Mysterious Gaze of the Flamingo Trailer: Chile’s Oscar Entry and Cannes Winner Opens in December

Winner of the Un Certain Regard Award at the 2025 Cannes Film Festival, Diego Céspedes' feature debut The Mysterious Gaze of the Flamingo was selected as Chile...

NYC Weekend Watch: The Straight Story, Strange Days, Le Heist Français & More

NYC Weekend Watch is our weekly round-up of repertory offerings. Roxy CinemaThe Straight Story, Looking for Mr. Goodbar, and Interiors play on 35mm while Le...

New to Streaming: If I Had Legs I’d Kick You, Train Dreams, After the Hunt, Megadoc, 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...

“That Cut Is Stanley’s Cut”: Nigel Galt on Editing Eyes Wide Shut with Kubrick

What is it to spend 15 months in a room with—let's just speculate—the most influential filmmaker of all-time on his final project, a work for which they did no...

The Film Stage’s 2025 Holiday Gift Guide

The holidays are upon us, so whether you're looking for film-related gifts or simply want to get for yourself some of the finest this year had to offer, we hav...

Cover-Up Trailer: Laura Poitras Returns with Essential Portrait of Investigative Journalism

Returning with another astounding documentary after All the Beauty and the Bloodshed, Laura Poitras has teamed with Mark Obenhaus to direct Cover-Up, a portrai...

The Moment Trailer: Charli XCX Navigates Music Stardom in Meta A24 Feature

Get ready for a Charli XCX winter. After quite a major last few years, the British pop icon is now leading a new meta feature from A24 titled The Moment. Direc...

News

John Waters’ Top 10 Films of 2025 Include Eddington, Final Destination Bloodlines, Sirāt & More

Cahiers du cinéma’s Top 10 Films of 2025 Includes Afternoons of Solitude, One Battle After Another, and Nouvelle Vague

NYC Weekend Watch: Abel Ferrara’s Cat Chaser

Trailers

Jean-Pierre Léaud Goes West In Exclusive Trailer for Luc Moullet’s A Girl Is a Gun

My Father’s Shadow Trailer: U.K.’s Oscar Entry and Cannes Winner Opens This February

The President’s Cake Trailer: Iraq’s Oscar Entry and Cannes Winner Opens This February

Reviews

The Chronology of Water Review: Kristen Stewart’s Elemental Calling Card for Directorial Greatness

La Grazia Review: Paolo Sorrentino Struggles to Match Toni Servillo’s Talents

WTO/99 Review: A Stark Reminder of Our American Police State

Features

NYC Weekend Watch: Kōzaburō Yoshimura, Safe & More

The Best Movies Now Playing in Theaters

The Best Documentaries of 2025

Interviews

Edward Burns on The Family McMullen, His Underseen Films, and Getting Tom Petty to Score His Second Movie

Sinners Cinematographer Autumn Durald Arkapaw on Pulling Off the Film’s Most Difficult Shots and Christopher Nolan’s Advice

Left-Handed Girl Director Shih-Ching Tsou on Collaborating with Sean Baker and Seeing the World Through a Child’s Eyes

Podcasts

The B-Side Ep. 172 – Daniel Craig (with Gavin Mevius)

The B-Side Ep. 171 – Richard Linklater (with Ryland Aldrich)

Emulsion Ep. 18 – Carlo Chatrian on the Tokyo International Film Festival and Future of Cinema Culture

Read More