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First Trailer for Terrence Malick-Produced Drama The Book of Vision, Set to Premiere at Venice

With this year's edition of Telluride Film Festival canceled, the first major film festival to get underway this fall will be Venice––one of the places hardest...

Fisherman’s Friends Review: A Feel-Good Dramedy Featuring Unlikely Crooners

The moment a group of Cornish fishermen and lifeboatmen turned their charitable crooning on the shore of Port Isaac into a Universal Music record deal that saw...

The B-Side – Joel Schumacher

Welcome to The B-Side, from The Film Stage. Here we talk about movie stars and filmmakers and not the movies that made them famous or kept them famous, but the...

NSFW Trailer for Helmut Newton: The Bad and the Beautiful Captures the Life & Work of a Legendary Photographer

One of the great photographers of the 20th century, even if you have yet to hear the name Helmut Newton, you have certainly seen one of his photos. After fleei...

New to Streaming: Marriage Stories, Junun, Miranda July, The Painted Bird & More

With a seemingly endless amount of streaming options—not only the titles at our disposal, but services themselves–each week we highlight the noteworthy titles ...

Charlie Kaufman Returns: First Look at I’m Thinking of Ending Things

I'm still working my way through Charlie Kaufman's debut novel Antkind––which follows a neurotic film critic who becomes the only person on earth to see a thre...

Atom Egoyan on Canadian Culture, Embracing Technology, and Quarantine Catch-Up

Throughout his sixteen feature films, prolific Toronto-based, Egyptian-born filmmaker Atom Egoyan has explored obsession, modern technology, fragmented familie...

Netflix Saves Richard Linklater’s 1969-Set Apollo Film, Which Will Mix Live-Action & Animation

Last year, I spoke to Richard Linklater about his planned Houston-set film about the 1969 moon landing, and he revealed it had stalled. "It was kind of bitters...

First Trailer for Brandon Cronenberg’s Possessor is Here to Haunt Your Nightmares

Carrying the Cronenberg name comes with much pressure and anticipation, particularly when it comes to the world of body horror, but David Cronenberg's son Bran...

Ghosts of War Review: Supernatural WWII Thriller Sets Up a Shallow Mystery

Sometimes the memories of our inaction haunt us more than the actions we have committed. This can be especially true at war once you return home to realize the...

News

Japan Cuts Announces 2026 Slate Featuring Hirokazu Kore-eda, Gakuryu Ishii, Yoji Yamada & More

Alice Rohrwacher to Direct The Baron in the Trees; Next Film to Be Primarily Silent

Cristian Mungiu’s Fjord Wins Palme d’Or: See Full List of Cannes 2026 Winners

Trailers

Cemre Paksoy’s Hands Are Tied In Trailer for Georgia Bernstein’s Sinister Sundance Favorite Night Nurse

Marcello Mastroianni Yearns In Trailer for 4K Restoration of Luchino Visconti’s White Nights

Exclusive Trailer for Greg Vrotsos’ Feature Debut Situations Follows a Journey of Love and Ambition in Los Angeles

Reviews

The Death of Robin Hood Review: A Portrait of the Outlaw as a Bald-Faced Lie

Tribeca Review: Here I’m Alive Is a Raw, Intimate Look at Messy New York Lives

I Am Frankelda Review: Mexico’s First Stop-Motion Feature Speaks Truth to Power

Features

The Best Movies Now Playing in Theaters

NYC Weekend Watch: Douglas Sirk in 3D, The Organizer, Body Double & More

The Film Stage’s 2026 Tribeca Festival Portrait Gallery

Interviews

“The Hard Work Is In the Screenwriting”: John Sayles on Resourceful Filmmaking, James Cameron, and His TIFF Retrospective

The Currents Director Milagros Mumenthaler on Sensory Filmmaking, Motherhood, and Capturing an Internal State

“Making Movies Should Be a Pleasure”: Olivier Assayas on The Wizard of the Kremlin

Podcasts

The B-Sides of Goldie Hawn with Jen Johans

The B-Sides of Laurence Fishburne with Mitchell Beaupre

The B-Sides of Eddie Murphy with Nicholas Gray and Alvin Keith

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