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Siberia Trailer: Abel Ferrara and Willem Dafoe’s Latest Collaboration Arrives This June

After delivering one of the best performances of last year with his recent Abel Ferrara collaboration Tommaso, Willem Dafoe has once again reteamed with the di...

Ben Wheatley on Processing the Pandemic Through In the Earth and the Singular Cinema of John Carpenter

Ben Wheatley released his most recent film, Rebecca, only six months ago on Netflix. He’s already back with his second film to arrive during the pandemic: a ho...

Intermission Ep. 12 – Two Shots Fired (with Ben Sachs)

Welcome back to Intermission, a spin-off podcast from The Film Stage Show. Led by yours truly, Michael Snydel, I invite a guest to discuss an arthouse, foreign...

U.S. Trailer for Michel Franco’s New Order Depicts a Violent Class Divide

Igniting controversy upon its festival run at Venice and TIFF last fall, followed by its release in Mexico, Michel Franco's New Order was criticized for its ra...

U.S. Trailer for Suzanne Lindon’s Acclaimed Directorial Debut Spring Blossom

Directed when she was just 19 years old, based on a screenplay when she wrote when she was 15, Suzanne Lindon's acclaimed debut Spring Blossom was an official ...

Mélanie Laurent is Losing Oxygen in New Trailer for Alexandre Aja’s Thriller

As Hollywood begins to roll out their fastest and most furious films to provide a much-needed adrenaline shot to the theater exhibition market, we do have to a...

Where to Stream the Films of Monte Hellman

Influential instead of famous, brilliant in a way for which his medium has little remaining use, Monte Hellman died yesterday at 91. It was heartening, if not ...

Paul Verhoeven’s Basic Instinct Gets 4K Restoration Trailer

Update: A U.S. theatrical release is confirmed to begin on June 18. With Paul Verhoeven's newest film Benedetta confirmed for the Cannes Film Festival lineu...

Tribeca Film Festival 2021 Lineup Unveiled

Pushed back from its usual April slot, the Tribeca Film Festival will take place in June this year (specifically 9th through 20th) at venues across all five Ne...

The Mitchells vs. the Machines Review: A Visually Imaginative, Tonally Discordant Animation

Often discerning the right tonal balance between crude humor, clever references to film culture at large, and the bonds that make friends and family strong, th...

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

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

Michel Gondry Returns to Animation in First Trailer for Maya, Give Me a Title

Reviews

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

AFI Review: Vermiglio Paints a Lyrical Portrait of Desires Constrained by Catholicism

Features

The Best Movies Now Playing in Theaters

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

Posterized November 2024: A Traveler’s Needs, Queer, Flow, Bird & More

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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