The Film Stage

“Images Are Dead”: Oliver Laxe on Sirāt and Spirituality

As music thumps across the desert landscape of Morocco's Atlas Mountains and ravers give themselves over to the endless bass, whispers of World War III echo in...

Mamoru Oshii’s Radical, Ethereal Angel’s Egg is an Anime Like No Other

In order to best explain Mamoru Oshii’s Angel’s Egg––a stoic, ethereal vision quest of a film notorious among anime and cult enthusiasts for resisting explanat...

My Undesirable Friends: Part I – Last Air in Moscow Announced as Winner of the 2025 Indie Film Site Network Advocate Award

Each year at the Indie Film Site Network (IFSN), we’re honored to highlight independent films that illuminate a humanitarian issue with a singular artistic vis...

Gore Verbinski Returns with First Trailer for Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die

After last directing a feature with 2016's A Cure for Wellness, Gore Verbinski finally returned to the director's chair nearly a decade later with Good Luck, H...

The Running Man Review: Edgar Wright’s First Pure Action Vehicle is a Partial Victory

Edgar Wright has mostly stayed in the pocket of action cinema since Hot Fuzz paid loving homage to the bombastic genre in 2007. But because subsequent projects...

Timothée Chalamet Aims for Greatness in New Trailer for Josh Safdie’s Marty Supreme

One of the most electric viewing experiences of the year was seeing Josh Safdie unveil his long-awaited return to directing, Marty Supreme, as the secret scree...

“Not Everybody Has to Be Likable”: Stellan Skarsgård on Sentimental Value and Suffering

On my last night at the Morelia International Film Festival, dinner took place at Lu, a restaurant specializing in Michoacán cuisine. Over rollos de jicama and...

The Last One for the Road Review: A Delightful Trip Through Italy

It doesn’t take long to work out where you are in The Last One for the Road––for the backroads of Veneto, Italy, Francesco Sossai’s delightful new movie has th...

“Let the Location Speak to You”: Lynne Ramsay on Die My Love, Shooting Academy Ratio, and Adapting Impossible Novels

Scottish writer-director Lynne Ramsay returns to feature filmmaking with Die My Love, eight years after You Were Never Really Here. The psycho-drama stars Jenn...

Put Your Soul on Your Hand and Walk Review: A Devastatingly Immersive Portrait of Palestinian Suffering

On October 7, 2024, Israel’s occupation of Gaza took new shape as a publicly declared war. At the time, Iranian filmmaker Sepideh Farsi was traveling aroun...

News

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

Netflix Buys Warner Bros. for $82 Billion

John Waters’ Top 10 Films of 2025 Include Eddington, Final Destination Bloodlines, Sirāt & More

Trailers

Jean-Pierre Léaud Goes West In Exclusive Trailer for Luc Moullet’s A Girl Is a Gun

My Father’s Shadow Trailer: U.K.’s Oscar Entry and Cannes Winner Opens This February

The President’s Cake Trailer: Iraq’s Oscar Entry and Cannes Winner Opens This February

Reviews

The Chronology of Water Review: Kristen Stewart’s Elemental Calling Card for Directorial Greatness

La Grazia Review: Paolo Sorrentino Struggles to Match Toni Servillo’s Talents

WTO/99 Review: A Stark Reminder of Our American Police State

Features

Posterized December 2025: Resurrection, No Other Choice, The Plague & More

New to Streaming: Jay Kelly, Reflection in a Dead Diamond, Stranger Eyes, The Family McMullen & More

NYC Weekend Watch: Kōzaburō Yoshimura, Safe & More

Interviews

Reflection in a Dead Diamond Directors on James Bond, Satoshi Kon, and Crafting a Cinematic Orgasm

Edward Burns on The Family McMullen, His Underseen Films, and Getting Tom Petty to Score His Second Movie

Sinners Cinematographer Autumn Durald Arkapaw on Pulling Off the Film’s Most Difficult Shots and Christopher Nolan’s Advice

Podcasts

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

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

Emulsion Ep. 18 – Carlo Chatrian on the Tokyo International Film Festival and Future of Cinema Culture

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