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The B-Side – In Conversation with Larry Fessenden

Welcome to The B-Side, from The Film Stage. Here we talk about movie directors! Not the movies that made them famous or kept them famous, but the ones that the...

Interior Life: Quebecois Maverick Robert Morin on Nightmares, Humor, and Neorealism

“We are so excited to have you here and are blown away this is even happening,” I signed off on a hasty call to Coop Vidéo de Montréal, setting up an interview...

Obsess You Like a Ghost: Bertrand Bonello on His Years-Long Path Towards The Beast

Every time I've seen The Beast there comes some point where I think Bertrand Bonello is the world's greatest under-60 filmmaker. Not quite a new stance for me ...

Keeping the Mystery: Alice Rohrwacher on La Chimera, Mythology, and Morality

In Alice Rohrwacher’s La Chimera, the Italian writer-director’s fourth narrative feature film, the past melds with the present. Art is something to be dug up, ...

The People’s Joker Director Vera Drew on the Trans Awakening of Batman Forever and the Way Superhero Movies Could Survive

After a year-and-a-half of copyright drama, The People’s Joker is finally here. The daring mixture of both tones and form will be sure to impress anyone, even ...

Janet Planet Trailer Unveils Annie Baker’s Superb Debut

The nearly year-long span from discovering Janet Planet's existence to seeing a single frame was fraught with worry. What if the extraordinarily talented Annie...

Watch: Jonathan Glazer Directs Scarlett Johansson In Shakespeare-Heavy Prada Ad

Though likely shot before he gave literally the one Academy Awards speech worth anything on this godforsaken earth, we can submit his new Prada ad starring Sca...

Nick Newman and the Brooklyn Center for Theatre Research Present Amnesiascope, a New Screening Series, on April 12

Complementing recent work with the Roxy Cinema and BAM, I've begun a monthly screening series at the Brooklyn Center for Theatre Research. It's called Amnesias...

Palestinian Voices Speak In Exclusive Trailer for Sci-Fi Documentary Lyd

Safe to assume the ongoing atrocities in Gaza will engender cinema, fiction and documentary alike, further into the future than we can imagine. Decades of aggr...

Park Chan-wook Lines Up Next Film The Ax with Lee Byung-hun and Son Ye-jin Attached

Following up his noir melodrama Decision to Leave, Park Chan-wook ventured into the world of American television with the forthcoming Max series The Sympathize...

News

Criterion Collection’s February 2025 Lineup Features Paul Thomas Anderson, Jean-Luc Godard, Crossing Delancey & More

Exclusive: New Restoration of Queer Drama By Hook or By Crook Acquired by Altered Innocence for Spring 2025 Release

Tilda Swinton Says The Room Next Door May Be Her Last Film as New Trailer Arrives

Trailers

Pamela Anderson is The Last Showgirl in First Trailer for Gia Coppola’s Drama

Exclusive U.S. Trailer for Endless Summer Syndrome Unveils Provocative French Drama

Beatles ’64 Trailer: Martin Scorsese Captures the Band’s First Visit to America

Reviews

Allen Sunshine Review: A Tranquil Debut Feature with a World of Feeling

Gladiator II Review: Ridley Scott’s Sequel Bests Predecessor By Going Dumb

Riga Review: Dreamy Stereoscopic 3D Folk Tale Twittering Soul is One of a Kind

Features

New to Streaming: Megalopolis, Rumours, Look Into My Eyes, An Almost Christmas Story, and More

NYC Weekend Watch: The Limits of Control, Ealing Studios & More

The Best Movies Now Playing in Theaters

Interviews

Payal Kapadia on All We Imagine as Light, Impermanence, Magical Realism, and Trilogy Plans

Barry Keoghan on Young Fatherhood, Loving La La Land, and the Movement of Andrea Arnold’s Bird

NYC Weekend Watch: Ken Kelsch, Il Grido, Flesh for Frankenstein 3D & More

Podcasts

The B-Side – Gwyneth Paltrow (with Cory Everett)

The B-Side – Vincent Price (with Gavin Mevius)

The B-Side – Tim Burton (with Maria Lewis)

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