The Film Stage - Page 81

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...

Ken Loach on The Old Oak, Why Every Film is a Documentary, and Artistic Solidarity

An expectation of finality has followed Ken Loach’s The Old Oak since its premiere at the 2023 Cannes Film Festival. “When you’re doing it, you’re doing it, yo...

Watch Hal Ashby’s Long-Lost Neil Young Concert Film Solo Trans

When none of us are generous enough to just buy an album (or join his notoriously unwieldy streaming service) there's been a surge of reinterest as Neil Young ...

News

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

Martin Scorsese Praises I Saw the TV Glow, Reveals Plans for Next Films

First Look at Lynne Ramsay’s Die, My Love Featuring Jennifer Lawrence and Robert Pattinson

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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