The Film Stage - Page 73

The Coen Brothers Will Reunite, When the Time is Right

The Cannes Film Festival is underway, and Ethan Coen will have the distinction of capping off the year's finest in cinema with a midnight premiere (this Friday...

Dogma 25 Movement Launches 30 Years After Lars von Trier and Thomas Vinterberg’s Dogme 95

It's now been 30 years since Lars von Trier and Thomas Vinterberg launched the Dogme 95 movement, featuring a set of stripped-down filmmaking rules to put powe...

Cannes Review: Christian Petzold’s Miroirs No. 3 is an Enigmatic Drama About Letting Go

Christian Petzold’s fifteenth feature Miroirs No. 3 marks his fourth with Paula Beer, the actor-muse he first directed in 2018’s Transit, a film that shares si...

Cannes Review: Drunken Noodles is a Sultry and Strangely Calming Drama

The laws of time and space are met with frisky ambivalence in Drunken Noodles, Lucio Castro’s anticipated third feature and surely the hottest title in this ye...

Cannes Review: Brand New Landscape is an Embodied Estrangement Drama from a Fresh Perspective

When confronted with the past, do you drive away or turn back to face it? Siblings Ren (Kurosaki Kodai, in his first lead role) and Emi (Mai Kiryu) have be...

Cannes Review: Chie Hayakawa’s Renoir is a Gradually Rewarding Coming-of-Age Story

Just three years since earning a special mention from the Camera d’Or jury for Plan 75, Chie Hayakawa returns to Cannes as one of seven filmmakers debuting in ...

Cannes Review: I Only Rest in the Storm Glides Over Many Ideas Without Fully Reckoning With Their Weight

Late into I Only Rest in the Storm, Sergio (Sérgio Coragem) is asked a question he can’t seem to answer: what do you care about? A Portuguese environmental eng...

Cannes Review: The Mysterious Gaze of the Flamingo is a Deeply Affecting Queer Drama

As reminders that ignorance, bigotry, and hate can literally kill, stories about the AIDS epidemic will always be relevant. The latest, beautiful example arriv...

First Trailer for Richard Linklater’s Nouvelle Vague Brings Cinema History to Life

After releasing two films last year with Hit Man and the rather-overlooked God Save Texas: Hometown Prison, the ever-prolific Richard Linklater returns in 2025...

The Criterion Collection’s August Lineup Includes an Edward Yang Double-Feature, Kon Ichikawa, Compensation & More

If Criterion's influence from the last 15-or-so years must distilled to one figure, a good candidate might be Edward Yang. The near-instant canonization of Yi ...

News

The Criterion Collection’s April Lineup Features Point Blank, Monty Python, and John Singleton on 4K

A New Film by Hong Sangsoo and More Will Premiere at Berlinale 2026

Slamdance Film Festival Unveils 2026 Lineup

Trailers

A Landmark of Brazilian Cinema is Restored in Exclusive Trailer for Carlos Diegues’ Bye Bye Brazil

Matt Johnson Travels Back to 2008 in Trailer for Nirvanna the Band the Show the Movie

U.S. Trailer for Radu Jude’s Kontinental ’25 Captures a Moral Parable in Transylvania

Reviews

All You Need Is Kill Review: Time-Loop Anime is a Visual Treat That Embraces Videogame Structure

Sound of Falling Review: A Pyschosexual Fever Dream of Epic Scope

A Useful Ghost Review: A Peculiar, Humorous Paranormal Tale

Features

NYC Weekend Watch: Cockfighter, Last Days, Kevin Jerome Everson & More

New to Streaming: Rebuilding, The Rip, Licorice Pizza, Twinless & More

The Best Movies Now Playing in Theaters

Interviews

“I’m Not Seeing America Doing the Best Films”: Rodrigo Teixeira on Supporting Brian De Palma, James Gray, and Contemporary World Cinema

“There Are So Many Black Stories That Are Not Duly Explored”: Seeds Director Brittany Shyne on Her Sundance-Winning Debut

“Every Single Day Was a Nightmare”: Annemarie Jacir on the Past and Present of Palestine 36

Podcasts

The Best Films of 2025 and Most-Anticipated Films of 2026

The B-Side Ep. 174 – James Stewart (with Mitchell Beaupre)

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

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