The Film Stage - Page 489

Murina Director Antoneta Alamat Kusijanović on Rebellion, Nature, and Martin Scorsese’s Advice

Directorial debuts rarely arrive as fully formed as Murina, Antoneta Alamat Kusijanović's riveting Cannes Camera d'Or winner that follows a coming-of-age journ...

10 Films to See at Fantasia International Film Festival 2022

As with most events this year, the Fantasia International Film Festival is heading back to theaters for its 2022 edition, the 26th year of its existence. From ...

Aubrey Plaza Gets Desperate in First Trailer for Emily the Criminal

Diving deeper into dramatic territory, Aubrey Plaza leads the new crime thriller Emily the Criminal, which premiered at Sundance Film Festival earlier this yea...

Michael Mann Aims to Adapt Heat 2 Into “One Large Movie”

The novelistic sprawl of Heat 2 proves massive, surely bigger than any film Michael Mann's made. Running as it does between 1988, 1995, 2000, Los Angeles, Chic...

Posterized July 2022: Murina, A Love Song, Resurrection & More

Theaters are back! Or that's what the studios would like you to believe from the huge box-office takes of Top Gun: Maverick and Minions: The Rise of Gr...

Olga Review: Gymnast Drama Balances Politics and Personal Struggle

Director Elie Grappe and co-writer Raphaëlle Desplechin waste no time showing their gymnast drama Olga is about more than the parallel bars. They introduce 15-...

A Love Song Trailer: Dale Dickey and Wes Studi Search for Connection in Colorado

A major highlight of Sundance and Berlinale earlier this year, A Love Song is a quaint drama of raw emotion. Max Walker-Silverman's directorial debut follows D...

First Trailer for David O. Russell’s Amsterdam Reveals a Star-Studded Crime Epic

After a prolific first half of the last decade with five films in four years––The Fighter, Silver Linings Playbook, American Hustle, and Joy––David O. Russell ...

Claire Denis on Both Sides of the Blade, Autofiction, and FaceTime

Interviewing Claire Denis keeps one on their toes. Receptive to good ideas and quick to challenge any false note, the director—by most metrics one of our gre...

Viola Davis is The Woman King in First Trailer for Gina Prince-Bythewood’s Historical Epic

After breaking out with Love & Basketball at the start of the century, Gina Prince-Bythewood delivered her first action epic with The Old Guard just a few ...

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 Kidnapping of Arabella Review: Offbeat Italian Road Trip Comedy

Night Nurse Review: A Perverse, Seductive Thriller

Barrio Triste Review: One of the Year’s Great Debuts

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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