The Film Stage

Exclusive Trailer and Poster for Bruno Dumont’s Red Rocks Captures Growing Up on the French Riviera

After his ambitious foray into harder sci-fi with The Empire, Bruno Dumont is returning to the coming-of-age film with his highly anticipated Directors’ F...

New to Streaming: The Drama, Send Help, Exit 8, and André Is an Idiot

Each week we highlight the noteworthy titles that have recently hit streaming platforms in the United States. Check out this week’s selections below and past r...

“Everything Is By Chance”: Tony Leung on Silent Friend, Léa Seydoux, and Ryûsuke Hamaguchi

Loving modern cinema and admiring Tony Leung are essentially a one-to-one deal. One can look no further than Film at Lincoln Center’s recent retrospective of t...

Our 20-Most Anticipated 2026 Cannes Film Festival Premieres

It's the most exciting time of the year for any cinephile: the Cannes Film Festival is set to kick off next week, running May 12th-23rd. Ahead of the festiviti...

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

Welcome to The B-Side! Here we talk about movie stars! Not the movies that made them famous or kept them famous, but the ones that they made in between. ...

Silent Friend Review: Tony Leung Finds a Flora Connection

Note: This review was originally published as part of our 2025 Venice coverage. The film opens in theaters on May 8. Hungarian director Ildikó Enyedi is bes...

The Misconceived Review: Incisive, Inventive Look at Contemporary Life

Note: This review was originally published as part of our 2026 IFFR coverage. The film opens in theaters on May 8. Seven years after collaborating on The Pl...

Maddie’s Secret Trailer: John Early Crafts a Sincere Satire in Directorial Debut

In one of the most impressive tonal feats of the year, John Early's directorial debut Maddie's Secret––which finds the actor playing a woman juggling career dr...

Silent Friend Director Ildikó Enyedi on Capturing a Tree’s Perspective and the State of a Soul

In Silent Friend, characters from three eras interact with the fauna around them. In 1908, Grete (Luna Wedler) tries to study medicine at a time when women wer...

Blue Film Review: Masterful Two-Hander Confronts Flaws with Empathy

“Provocation” has become watered-down in recent times. All it takes to provoke someone is tossing off a bunch of half-assed offensive statements or aiming ...

News

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

David Fincher’s The Adventures of Cliff Booth Sets Global IMAX Release This November

Leos Carax’s Annette Follow-Up Lily May B to Shoot Next Year with Jenna Ortega

Trailers

Fatherland Trailer: Paweł Pawlikowski’s Cannes Winner Arrives This Fall

New Trailer for Jane Schoenbrun’s Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma Deconstructs the Slasher

Robert Pattinson Is Chris Hansen in First Teaser for Lance Oppenheim’s Primetime

Reviews

Forastera Review: Captivating Drama Explores Preciousness of Life

Backrooms Review: Kane Parsons’ Debut Offers Scares and Shows Promise

The Currents Review: An Intimate Portrait of Fractured Identity

Features

The Best Films of the 2026 Cannes Film Festival

NYC Weekend Watch: Kim Ki-young, Popeye, A New Leaf & More

New to Streaming: Miroirs No. 3, Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair, Mother Mary, Palestine 36 & More

Interviews

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

“Everything Is By Chance”: Tony Leung on Silent Friend, Léa Seydoux, and Ryûsuke Hamaguchi

Podcasts

The B-Sides of Laurence Fishburne with Mitchell Beaupre

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

The B-Sides of Chow Yun-Fat

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Exclusive Trailer and Poster for Bruno Dumont’s Red Rocks Captures Growing Up on the French Riviera

New to Streaming: The Drama, Send Help, Exit 8, and André Is an Idiot

“Everything Is By Chance”: Tony Leung on Silent Friend, Léa Seydoux, and Ryûsuke Hamaguchi

Our 20-Most Anticipated 2026 Cannes Film Festival Premieres

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

Silent Friend Review: Tony Leung Finds a Flora Connection

The Misconceived Review: Incisive, Inventive Look at Contemporary Life

Maddie’s Secret Trailer: John Early Crafts a Sincere Satire in Directorial Debut

Silent Friend Director Ildikó Enyedi on Capturing a Tree’s Perspective and the State of a Soul

Blue Film Review: Masterful Two-Hander Confronts Flaws with Empathy