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First Trailer for Zhang Yimou’s Historical Epic Full River Red

Working at such an insane clip he can direct a movie that is coming out in less than a month and it was previously not on our radar, the latest work from Zhang...

Corsage Director Marie Kreutzer on Small Acts of Rebellion and How Fashion Has Historically Imprisoned Women

More than a century before the neverending stream of social media and its unrealistic expectations of beauty affected the ways in which people, especially wome...

NYC Weekend Watch: Amadeus, Lars von Trier, The Rules of the Game & More

Roxy CinemaFriday offers Amadeus on 35mm, Hardcore, and Christmas Evil. Film at Lincoln CenterLars von Trier’s The Kingdom II, restored in a new director’s ...

New to Streaming: Aftersun, Millennium Mambo, Glass Onion, Bi Gan & 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...

Millennium Mambo Restored: Revisiting Hou Hsiao-hsien’s Hypnotic Portrait of Precarity

Hou Hsiao-hsien’s Millennium Mambo premiered at the Cannes Film Festival in 2001 to, sadly, so little enthusiasm outside the highbrow crowd that it didn't fina...

The Pale Blue Eye Review: Scott Cooper Crafts a Chilly, Tedious Gothic Murder Mystery

With a filmography of muscular acting showcases, patient tempos, and emphasis on brooding atmosphere, it’s evident Scott Cooper has been influenced by the ende...

The Film Stage’s Top 50 Films of 2022

For our most comprehensive year-end feature we’re providing a cumulative look at The Film Stage’s favorite films of 2022. We’ve asked contributors to comp...

The B-Side – Sam Raimi (with Josh Ruben)

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

RRR, Decision to Leave, LCD Soundsystem, Crimes of the Future, EO & More Shortlisted for Oscars

Ahead of the nominations for the 95th Academy Awards, being unveiling on January 24, and the ceremony, taking place March 12, shortlists have been announced in...

A Hou Hsiao-hsien Masterpiece is Restored in New Trailer for Millennium Mambo

Slowly but surely the works of one of the greatest directors in cinema history are getting restored. On the heels of the recent Flowers of Shanghai revamp, Hou...

News

James Gray’s Paper Tiger Sets North American Premiere as Opening Night of the 64th New York Film Festival

The Criterion Collection’s October Lineup Features The Silence of the Lambs and Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein on 4K, Jerzy Skolimowski, and Samuel Fuller

Locarno Film Festival Unveils 2026 Lineup

Trailers

The Uprising Trailer: Andrew Garfield Leads a Rebellion for Paul Greengrass

Filipiñana Trailer: Rafael Manuel’s Jia Zhangke-Backed Sundance Winner Opens This August

Domhnall Gleeson Encounters a Strange Land In First Trailer for The Incomer

Reviews

The Odyssey Review: Christopher Nolan’s Journey of Perpetual, Enervating Awe

The Kidnapping of Arabella Review: Offbeat Italian Road Trip Comedy

Night Nurse Review: A Perverse, Seductive Thriller

Features

NYC Weekend Watch: The Hole, Electronica, Gakuryu Ishii, Nicholas Ray & More

The Best Movies Now Playing in Theaters

New to Streaming: The Furious, City Wide Fever, Amores Perros, Camp & More

Interviews

Tsai Ming-liang on the Personal Inspiration of The Hole, Constant Evolution, and His Next Films

“How Do You Make a Contemporary Erotic Thriller”: Georgia Bernstein on Night Nurse and Catherine Breillat

David Wain on the Hard Work of Making Dumb Jokes

Podcasts

The B-Sides of Christopher Nolan with Blake Howard

Yasmina Tawil on Progamming Hou Hsiao-hsien, David Fincher, Tom Tykwer & More for BAM’s Electronica Series

The B-Sides of Julia Roberts with Joe Reid

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