The Film Stage - Page 445

Venice Review: The Lost Daughter Puts Olivia Colman in a Fine Meditation on Motherhood

One of the particular pleasures of The Lost Daughter, actress Maggie Gyllenhaal’s debut feature as a director, is wondering which of the handful of sizeable fe...

Titane Red Band Trailer: Julia Ducournau’s Palme d’Or Winner is Unleashed Next Month

With Cannes returning this year but pushed back two months from its normal May slot, it means the wait between premiere and theatrical release for most films i...

TIFF Review: Julia Captures a Culinary Icon with Taste

Booked to talk Mastering the Art of French Cooking on public access channel WGBH-TV, Julia Child took it upon herself to call the station and request a hotplat...

TIFF Review: Clio Barnard’s Ali & Ava is a Heartwarmingly Funny, Melancholic Romance

Their differences are plenty. Her heritage is Irish; his is Pakistani. She lives in a part of Britain where he knows to worry about getting stones thrown at hi...

TIFF Review: The Middle Man is a Meandering Norwegian Drama of Off-Kilter Absurdity and Bone-Dry Hilarity

Frank Farelli (Pål Sverre Hagen) has been unemployed in a dying town for quite some time. The area used to attract visitors in the past—not many, but enough to...

The Film Stage Show Ep. 443 – Candyman (with Craig D. Lindsey)

Welcome, one and all, to the latest episode of The Film Stage Show! Today, Brian Roan, Bill Graham, and Robyn Bahr are joined by Craig D. Lindsey to discuss Ni...

TIFF Review: Benediction Finds Terence Davies Capturing a Complex Life with Wit

Time is everything in a Terence Davies film. In Benediction, his biopic about English poet Siegfried Sassoon (Jack Lowden), he eventually covers his subject’s ...

TIFF Review: The Wheel Provides a Convoluted, Mirrored Look at Marriage

Despite only being 24 years old, Walker (Taylor Gray) and Albee (Amber Midthunder) head into the woods from their Los Angeles existence to try to save their ei...

TIFF Review: Night Raiders Draws on Canadian History to Tell a Grounded Sci-Fi Tale

German Lutheran pastor Martin Niemöller coined the poetic confession "First they came…" in 1946. The post-WWII piece spoke about how groups like the Nazis woul...

TIFF Review: Sarah Gadon Stands Out in the Otherwise Disappointing All My Puny Sorrows

It is fitting that All My Puny Sorrows is making its world premiere at the 2021 Toronto International Film Festival. This is a quintessential TIFF film. There ...

News

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Trailers

Jaume Collet-Serra Returns to Horror in First Trailer for The Woman in the Yard

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Rounding Trailer: Ghostlight and Saint Frances Director Alex Thompson’s Psychological Thriller Arrives in February

Reviews

Wolf Man Review: Leigh Whannell’s Effective Reboot Scares Up Hereditary Horrors

Emmanuelle Review: Audrey Diwan Subverts an Erotic Classic to Compelling, Alienating Effect

Every Little Thing Review: A Sensitive Portrait of a Great Woman’s Dedication to Hummingbirds

Features

NYC Weekend Watch: Fat City, THX 1138, Anthony Mann & More

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Eli Friedberg’s Top 10 First-Viewings of 2024

Interviews

The Brutalist Composer Daniel Blumberg on the Ambitious, Intensive Process of Scoring Brady Corbet’s Epic

Mike Leigh on Hard Truths, Losing Dick Pope, and the Duty of an Artist

“Cinema Could Be Grander”: Nickel Boys Director RaMell Ross on Perspectives, Contradictions, and True Intimacy

Podcasts

The B-Side – In Conversation with Julia Stiles on Her Directorial Debut Wish You Were Here

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