The Film Stage

The Voice of Hind Rajab Trailer: Venice Winner and Tunisia’s Oscar Entry Opens This December

Winner of the Silver Lion at Venice Film Festival and Tunisia's Oscar entry, Kaouther Ben Hania's The Voice of Hind Rajab has been devastating audiences on the...

Brady Corbet’s Next Film Will Be X-Rated, Shot Entirely on 70mm, and Span Three Centuries

Following up last year’s acclaimed drama The Brutalist, Mona Fastvold and Brady Corbet returned this year with The Testament of Ann Lee, this time with the for...

The Film Stage Presents Ultra-Rare Director’s Cut of Abel Ferrara’s Cat Chaser at the Roxy Cinema on November 30

Most filmmakers see piracy as a scourge on their livelihood. Abel Ferrara has what one might call a more pluralistic mindset: "The only thing you need to see t...

Train Dreams Production Designer Alexandra Schaller on Finding Beauty in the Land and Making Small Films Feel Big

One of the many special things in Train Dreams, directed by Clint Bentley, is the production design. Nearly every element of each setting feels like it was jus...

Dead Man’s Wire Trailer: Gus Van Sant Tells a True Kidnapping Story

Returning with his first feature in seven years, Gus Van Sant premiered Dead Man's Wire at Venice Film Festival and it'll now arrive before the end of the year...

Exclusive U.S. Trailer for Johnny Ma’s The Mother and the Bear, Backed by Pablo LarraÍn

World premiering in the Centrepiece Section at last year's Toronto International Film Festival, Johnny Ma's comedic drama The Mother and the Bear stars Kim Ho-...

Mamoru Oshii’s Live-Action Debut The Red Spectacles is a Discombobulating Sci-Fi Experiment

When he’s not acting as pure imagemaker, Mamoru Oshii is, before anything else, a worldbuilder. One of Japan’s premier multimedia genre auteurs, his “worldview...

Train Dreams Director Clint Bentley on Natural Light, Shaping Narration, and Real-Life Inspiration

Through the eyes of itinerant logger Robert Granier (Joel Edgerton), Train Dreams traces America’s transition from a pioneer land firmly into an industrialized...

Costume Designer Catherine George on Working With Lynne Ramsay, Jim Jarmusch, and Bong Joon Ho

A couple of weeks ago, just moments after delivering a career-spanning masterclass at the Thessaloniki Film Festival, Catherine George sat down to talk to us o...

The Mysterious Gaze of the Flamingo Trailer: Chile’s Oscar Entry and Cannes Winner Opens in December

Winner of the Un Certain Regard Award at the 2025 Cannes Film Festival, Diego Céspedes' feature debut The Mysterious Gaze of the Flamingo was selected as Chile...

News

The Criterion Collection’s March 2026 Lineup Features Killers of the Flower Moon on 4K

Sundance Film Festival Unveils 2026 Lineup

Exclusive Palestine 36 Poster and Clip: Palestine’s Oscar Entry Tells an Epic Tale of Resistance

Trailers

Disclosure Day Trailer: Steven Spielberg Returns to Extraterrestrial Exploration

A Major Restoration Arrives in Exclusive Trailer for Erich von Stroheim’s Queen Kelly

Exclusive Trailer for Bertrand Bonello-Scored Europe’s New Faces Covers a Troubled Continent

Reviews

The Voice of Hind Rajab Review: Kaouther Ben Hania Brings Questionable Palatability to the Genocide in Gaza

Avatar: Fire and Ash Review: James Cameron Gets His Hands Dirty

Ella McCay Review: A Living Legend’s Final Word on Hope and Forgiveness

Features

The Best 2026 Films We’ve Already Seen

The Best Undistributed Films of 2025

The Best Scores & Soundtracks of 2025

Interviews

“The Story is Told by Faces”: Darius Khondji on the Cinematography of Marty Supreme and His Prolific Year

“It’s a Mission: Impossible”: Bi Gan on the Long Journey and Long Takes of Resurrection

“We’re Terrible Esthetes”: Dennis Cooper and Zac Farley on Room Temperature, Home Haunts, and the Artist’s Life

Podcasts

The B-Side Ep. 173 – James L. Brooks (with Adam Drosin)

The B-Side Ep. 172 – Daniel Craig (with Gavin Mevius)

The B-Side Ep. 171 – Richard Linklater (with Ryland Aldrich)

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