The Film Stage

Heads or Tails Trailer: John C. Reilly Is Buffalo Bill in Alessio Rigo de Righi and Matteo Zoppis’ Cannes Selection

Following their transportive adventure The Tale of King Crab, directors Alessio Rigo de Righi and Matteo Zoppis have now returned and this time with a major st...

Exclusive New Stills From Carla Simón’s Romería as Janus Films Sets June Release

After crafting one of the most deeply felt debuts of the prior decade with Summer 1993, Carla Simón followed up the coming-of-age drama with her Golden Bear wi...

New to Streaming: Nirvanna the Band the Show the Movie, Sirāt, Send Help, A Poet & More

Each week we highlight the noteworthy titles that have recently hit streaming platforms in the United States. Check out this week’s selections below and past r...

Rosebush Pruning Trailer: Callum Turner, Riley Keough, Elle Fanning, Tracy Letts & More Have Family Issues

Recently premiering at Berlinale, Karim Aïnouz's Efthimis Filippou-scripted satire Rosebush Pruning brings together Callum Turner, Riley Keough, Jamie Bell, Lu...

NYC Weekend Watch: Béla Tarr, Meiko Kaji, Kiyoshi Kurosawa & More

NYC Weekend Watch is our weekly round-up of repertory offerings. Film Society of Lincoln CenterA career-spanning Béla Tarr tribute begins. Japan SocietyT...

Sinking into the Abyss: Nadav Lapid on Yes, the Collapse of Morality, and Beauty in Dance

For fifteen years now, Israeli writer-director Nadav Lapid has thoughtfully crafted blistering and incisive films about the incompetency, hypocrisy, criminalit...

David Robert Mitchell Returns in First Trailer for The End of Oak Street

Following Under the Silver Lake, David Robert Mitchell is finally back in the director's chair, this time for a large-scale adventure feature for a major studi...

6K Restoration of Werner Herzog’s Cave of Forgotten Dreams Is Coming to IMAX

One of Werner Herzog's most immersive documentaries has received quite the restoration and roll-out. IFC announced today that a 6K restoration and upgrade of C...

Exclusive Trailer for 4K Restoration of Lina Wertmüller’s The Seduction of Mimi

A few years prior to making her landmark achievement as the first woman to be nominated for an Academy Award for Best Director, Lina Wertmüller helmed The Sedu...

The B-Sides of Spike Lee

Welcome to The B-Side! Here we talk about movie directors! Not the movies that made them famous or kept them famous, but the ones that they made in between.&nb...

News

Scout Tafoya and Tucker Johnson’s Stubborn Beast Begins Production

The Criterion Collection’s July Lineup Features The Elephant Man, Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore, and Mike Mills on 4K

Tony Leung Finds Earthly Connection in Exclusive Poster for Ildikó Enyedi’s Silent Friend

Trailers

Exclusive U.S. Trailer for Chie Hayakawa’s Cannes Selection Renoir, Opening This May

First Trailer for Ridley Scott’s The Dog Stars Puts Jacob Elordi, Josh Brolin & Margaret Qualley in the Apocalypse

Exclusive Trailer for Prismatic Ground 2026 Brings the Future of Cinema to NYC

Reviews

Blue Heron Review: An Astonishing Seance of Self and Film

Mile End Kicks Review: A Canadian Music Critic Finds Herself

Eagles of the Republic Review: A Playful Comedy-Thriller About an Egyptian Movie Star

Features

NYC Weekend Watch: Tina Aumont, Terry Zwigoff, Pauline at the Beach & More

New to Streaming: The Love That Remains, Magellan, Undertone, The Chronology of Water & More

The Best Movies Now Playing in Theaters

Interviews

Faith in the Process: Pete Ohs on Erupcja, Charli XCX, and New Methods

“You Can’t Recreate a Reality”: Sophy Romvari on Blue Heron

David Lowery on Mother Mary, Beyoncé, and Transposing His Concerns Onto a Pop Icon

Podcasts

Josh Heaps on the DIY Horror of City Wide Fever

The B-Sides of Steve Martin with Eric D. Snider

Dolphins and Drugs: Michael Almereyda and Courtney Stephens on Capturing the Work of John Lilly

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