The Film Stage - Page 64

First Look at Benny Safdie’s The Smashing Machine Starring Dwayne Johnson and Emily Blunt

Do you smell what The Rock is cooking? For the last decade-plus (at least post-Pain & Gain), Dwayne Johnson has been serving up four-quadrant blockbuster s...

Jeff Nichols Will Adapt Cormac McCarthy’s The Passenger and Stella Maris

When news broke last year of John Hillcoat adapting Blood Meridian, I had expressed some hope for similar treatment bestowed upon Cormac McCarthy's final novel...

Cannes Review: Jia Zhangke and Zhao Tao Speed Through 20 Years in Caught by the Tides

Jia Zhangke's is often a cinema of déjà vu: "We’re again in the northern Chinese city of Datong," Giovanni Marchini Camia wrote for Sight and Sound back in 201...

Cannes Review: Horizon: An American Saga – Chapter 1 Begins Kevin Costner’s Magnum Opus with Sweep and Grandeur

Scale, sweep, or schadenfreude; whatever you might be seeking in the films of Kevin Costner, you tend to walk away with the vistas. Think of the golden plains ...

Yorgos Lanthimos on the Caligula-Inspired Kinds of Kindness and Finding Hope in Humanity

Oh, to be one of the chosen. I guarantee this thought washes over every single person attending the Cannes Film Festival, at least at some point. It is a reali...

Cannes Review: Jacques Audiard’s Emilia Perez is an Audaciously Bad Dud

There’s a lot to look forward to in what has been branded a Mexican comedy-thriller musical from the Palme d’Or winner that brought us Dheepan, A Prophet, Rust...

Hayao Miyazaki Crafts The Boy and the Heron in First Trailer for Two-Hour Behind-the-Scenes Documentary

While much of the Cannes Classics lineup this year look far back in cinema history, a new documentary in the lineup captures a behind-the-scenes look at a rece...

Dakota Johnson Leads Tig Notaro’s Directorial Debut in First Trailer for Am I OK?

Premiering way back some 27 months ago at the 2022 Sundance Film Festival, we've been curious what happened to Tig Notaro and Stephanie Allynne’s directorial f...

Longlegs Trailer: Maika Monroe is Looking for Nicolas Cage in Mystery Thriller

In an era of marketing where most studios just drop a full-length trailer on YouTube and in theaters, hoping viewers will be impressed enough to buy tickets ev...

Cannes Review: Yorgos Lanthimos’ Kinds of Kindness is an Anthology Film of Dark if Slight Delights

This one is for the true Lanthimites, the Dogtooth sisters, the biscuit women, The Killing of a Sacred Deer heads, a film to which the callbacks are so abundan...

News

Trailer for Palestine’s Oscar Entry From Ground Zero + Exclusive Poster Giveaway

MUBI’s December 2024 Lineup Includes Dahomey, Bird, The People’s Joker & More

No Other Land Announced as Winner of the 2024 Indie Film Site Network Advocate Award

Trailers

Sujo Trailer: Mexico’s Oscar Entry From Identifying Features Team Arrives Next Week

Jacques Demy’s Masterpiece The Umbrellas of Cherbourg Gets New Trailer for 4K Restoration

DIG! XX Trailer: Ondi Timoner’s Cult Classic Rock Doc Gets Expanded Edition This January

Reviews

The Black Sea Review: A Dynamic Lead Performance Drives Familiar Fish-Out-of-Water Story

Thessaloniki Review: When the Light Breaks Showcases a Dawn-to-Dusk Tragedy with Raw Depth

Wicked: Part I Review: Wizard of Oz Prequel Is Stale as Blockbusters Can Be

Features

The Best Movies Now Playing in Theaters

New to Streaming: Blitz, The Piano Lesson, Flipside, We Live in Time, Alien: Romulus & More

NYC Weekend Watch: Dirty Work, Shelley Duvall, Robert Frank & More

Interviews

Gaucho Gaucho Directors Michael Dweck and Gregory Kershaw on Mythology, Compositions, and Community

Rodrigo Prieto on His Directorial Debut, Martin Scorsese’s Snubs, and Taylor Swift’s Feature Debut

Flow Director Gints Zilbalodis on Animating Animals, Allegories, and Cinema vs. Videogames

Podcasts

The B-Side – Ridley Scott (with Maria Lewis)

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

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

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