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The B-Side – James Bond: Part II (with Gavin Mevius)

Welcome to The B-Side, from The Film Stage. Here we talk about movie stars! Not the movies that made them famous or kept them famous, but the ones they made in...

32 Films That Inspired Wes Anderson’s The French Dispatch

With it being seven years since his last live-action film, 2014's The Grand Budapast Hotel, Wes Anderson is hard at work. Following a Cannes premiere, The Fren...

Prepare to Scream in First Trailer for Dasha Nekrasova’s Directorial Debut The Scary of Sixty-First

"I think the Epstein stuff and all the details of it are so horrifying that it felt like a good fit, genre-wise, for a psychological horror," Red Scare's Dasha...

The Last Duel Review: Ridley Scott Delivers a Patient, Dour, and Respectable Morality Play

Judging by The Last Duel, 14th-century France was as gray and miserable as you’d expect. And yes, this is a long, talky, literary, extremely dour film, basical...

Introducing, Selma Blair Review: A Powerful Journey of Self-Acceptance

One can't help being inspired by Selma Blair's transparency on her Multiple Sclerosis. So many people's first impulse would be to hide—especially after having ...

Todd Haynes on The Velvet Undergound, Sound Mixing, and the Comfort of Classic Cinema

It was perhaps predestined Todd Haynes would one day make a film about the Velvet Underground. Predestined since Velvet Goldmine, at least, which—in a time whe...

NYFF Review: Just a Movement Expands Jean-Luc Godard’s 1967 Classic La Chinoise

The five college-aged kids in Jean-Luc Godard’s La Chinoise speak like revolutionaries. They discuss violent means of change, necessary evils to alter the curr...

Busan Review: Zhang Yimou’s One Second is a Reverent Ode to the Magic of the Cinematic Experience

Zhang Yimou has one of the more fascinating careers of any director. He became a pioneer figure of contemporary Chinese arthouse cinema in the late 1980s / ear...

A Violent Fantasy Quest Begins in Red Band Trailer for Rotoscoped Animation The Spine of Night

When it comes to painting outside the box, so to speak, this year has been a promising one for animation. While the Pixars and Dreamworks of the world often ge...

Get Ready for Last Night in Soho With Edgar Wright’s 60-Song 1960s Playlist

We're now just a few weeks away from Edgar Wright's second feature of 2021, his psychological thriller Last Night in Soho. As one can imagine, the film has a c...

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

Oh, Canada Trailer: Richard Gere Reflects on His Life in Paul Schrader’s Poignant Drama

Billy Zane Transforms into Marlon Brando in First Trailer for Waltzing with Brando

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

Reviews

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

Riga Review: Saulė Bliuvaitė’s Locarno-Winning Toxic Will Worm Its Way Inside You

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

Features

Five Highlights from the 2024 Tokyo International Film Festival

The Best Movies Now Playing in Theaters

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

Interviews

“Life Is Worth Celebrating”: Tyler Taormina on Christmas Eve in Miller’s Point

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

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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