The Film Stage - Page 48

Veronika Franz and Severin Fiala on The Devil’s Bath, Unhomely Houses, Depression, and Empathy

It’s rare for a festival like the Berlinale to allow a genre film in its main competition, and this year it was Veronika Franz and Severin Fiala’s third featur...

U.S. Trailer for Close Your Eyes Brings Víctor Erice’s Triumphant Return Stateside

Despite being seen exclusively on the festival circuit, Víctor Erice's first feature in 30 years, Close Your Eyes, ended up at #20 on our best-of-2023 list. On...

My Old Ass Trailer: Aubrey Plaza Gives Advice to a Younger Version of Herself in Sundance Comedy

Premiering at the Sundance Film Festival earlier this year, Megan Park's coming-of-age comedy My Old Ass has a bit of a light sci-fi twist. On her 18th birthda...

Sebastian Trailer: A Journalist Explores Sex Work for Research in Sundance Drama

Premiering earlier this year at Sundance Film Festival, Sebastian marks the sophomore feature from writer/director Mikko Mäkelä (whose debut was the 2017 gay r...

A Quiet Place: Day One Review: A Tender, Uneven Franchise Origin Story of Existential Despair

For a movie so deeply focused on sound, there’s a bit of an arrhythmia to A Quiet Place: Day One. Michael Sarnoski directs his own screenplay, dabbling within ...

A Realistic Coup of the U.S. Government is Attempted in First Trailer for War Game

While thankfully the January 6 insurrection wasn't successful in the intended coup of the United States government, the threats posed play out to another, far ...

Here Trailer: Robert Zemeckis Crafts a Single-Perspective Epic Spanning Centuries

It was just yesterday we learned Robert Zemeckis was taking another ambitious formal gamble in his career with Here. His adaptation of Richard McGuire’s comic,...

MaXXXine Review: Ti West Takes a Self-Aware Victory Lap

If knives weren’t already being sharpened for Ti West prior to MaXXXine––the third installment in his X series of exploitation throwbacks––they likely will be ...

Garrett Bradley’s Time Gets Sequel with Time II: Unfinished Business: Watch the First Trailer

As we near the halfway point of the decade thus far, there's still no better documentary to arrive than one that premiered in the first month of the 2020s. Gar...

Robert Zemeckis’ Here Takes Place from a Single POV for Entire Runtime

Update: Watch the first trailer here. Writing about Robert Zemeckis' Here in our 2024 preview, we noted the potential between source material and director: ...

News

David Fincher’s Remastered Se7en Comes to IMAX to Kick Off 2025

Criterion Collection’s February 2025 Lineup Features Paul Thomas Anderson, Jean-Luc Godard, Crossing Delancey & More

Exclusive: New Restoration of Queer Drama By Hook or By Crook Acquired by Altered Innocence for Spring 2025 Release

Trailers

Tatsuya Nakadai Goes on Cold-Blooded Mission in Exclusive Trailer for New Restoration of Hideo Gosha’s Cash Calls Hell

Nicole Kidman and Harris Dickinson Find Pleasure in New Trailer for Babygirl

Pamela Anderson is The Last Showgirl in First Trailer for Gia Coppola’s Drama

Reviews

Allen Sunshine Review: A Tranquil Debut Feature with a World of Feeling

Gladiator II Review: Ridley Scott’s Sequel Bests Predecessor By Going Dumb

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

Features

Appreciating a Pioneer: Pittsburgh Celebrates Queer Local Filmmaker Roger Jacoby with World Premiere Restorations

New to Streaming: Megalopolis, Rumours, Look Into My Eyes, An Almost Christmas Story, and More

NYC Weekend Watch: The Limits of Control, Ealing Studios & More

Interviews

Payal Kapadia on All We Imagine as Light, Impermanence, Magical Realism, and Trilogy Plans

Barry Keoghan on Young Fatherhood, Loving La La Land, and the Movement of Andrea Arnold’s Bird

NYC Weekend Watch: Ken Kelsch, Il Grido, Flesh for Frankenstein 3D & More

Podcasts

The B-Side – Gwyneth Paltrow (with Cory Everett)

The B-Side – Vincent Price (with Gavin Mevius)

The B-Side – Tim Burton (with Maria Lewis)

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