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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...

Of An Age Trailer: You Won’t Be Alone Director Goran Stolevski Returns with Queer Drama

One of the most curious cases in cinema this year was the reception of Goran Stolevski's debut feature You Won't Be Alone. While widely praised, even landing o...

Jafar Panahi Battles Oppression Through Filmmaking in U.S. Trailer for No Bears

A radically-defiant artist, Iranian director Jafar Panahi has been making some of the most vital––both artistically and politically––works of the last three de...

The TÁR Cinematic Universe Will Expand with New Short Film by Todd Field

Considering it is his first film in nearly two decades, it comes as no surprise that Todd Field packed quite a lot into TÁR––so much that it can't be contained...

The Criterion Channel Announce January Lineup: Early Mike Leigh, Kiarostami, Skolimowski, Johnnie To & More

What will be your first movie of 2023? If you're reading this it's likely you put some (let's be honest: too much) thought into what commences the cinematic ye...

News

Locarno Film Festival Unveils 2026 Lineup

Eleanor Coppola’s Documentary on the Making of Sofia Coppola’s Marie Antoinette Is Coming Soon

David Chase Sets LSD Film; New Updates on Quentin Tarantino, Wes Anderson, David Lowery, and Sacha Baron Cohen Projects

Trailers

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

Tony Gilroy Returns in First Trailer for Behemoth!

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

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

The B-Sides of Steven Spielberg with Bilge Ebiri

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