The Film Stage

The 2025 Oscar-Nominated Documentary Short Films, Reviewed

Ahead of the Academy Awards, we’re reviewing every short film in each category: Animation, Documentary, and Live Action. Follow here this week. Below are the B...

First Trailer for On Swift Horses Sets Daisy Edgar-Jones, Jacob Elordi, Will Poulter & More in ’50s Melodrama

Sporting quite the cast of up-and-coming talent, On Swift Horses, starring Daisy Edgar-Jones, Jacob Elordi, Will Poulter, Diego Calva, and Sasha Calle premiere...

Exclusive Poster for Radu Jude’s Berlinale Premiere Kontinental ’25 Pays Homage to Roberto Rossellini

Coming after a major 2024 with the U.S. release of his blistering satire Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World (which nabbed a spot in our...

The 2025 Oscar-Nominated Live Action Short Films, Reviewed

Ahead of the Academy Awards, we’re reviewing every short film in each category: Animation, Documentary, and Live Action. Follow here this week. Below are the B...

Exclusive Trailer for Berlinale Premiere The Memory of Butterflies Explores Latin American History

Kicking off this week, the 2025 Berlinale features no shortage of exciting premieres. One on our radar is Peruvian filmmaker Tatiana Fuentes Sadowski's La memo...

The Friend Trailer: Naomi Watts Inherits Billy Murray’s Best Friend

The Room Next Door wasn’t the only Sigrid Nunez adaptation to premiere at fall festivals last year. David Siegel and Scott McGehee’s Montana Story follow-up Th...

“Institutions Have Collapsed”: Universal Language Team on Iranian Cinema, Individualism, and Canadian History

Universal Language could easily have overdosed on twee. Set in an alternate-universe Winnipeg where almost everyone is ethnically Iranian and speaks Farsi, it ...

First Look at Carla Simón’s Alcarràs Follow-Up Romería

Following her lovely, emotional first two features Summer 1993 and Alcarràs, Carla Simon recently shot the final part of her loose family trilogy with Romería....

Friendship Trailer: Tim Robinson is Obsessed with Paul Rudd

At long last, Tim Robinson is now a leading man. World-premiering at TIFF this past fall to much acclaim, Andrew DeYoung’s Friendship follows the I Think You S...

Rotterdam Review: Wind, Talk to Me is a Moving and Vivid Hybrid Study of Grief

The title isn’t an order; it’s a plea. Wind, Talk to Me, Stefan Djordjevic’s feature debut, began as a portrait of the director’s ailing mother, Negrica, a...

News

Leonardo DiCaprio Will Lead Martin Scorsese’s Home; Apple and Todd Field to Produce

New Directors/New Films Unveils 2025 Lineup

Paris’ La Clef Revival Comes to New York for Week of Film Screenings; Watch Appreciations from Martin Scorsese and John Carpenter

Trailers

Sex Work in 1970s Japan Gets the Spotlight in Exclusive Trailer for Noboru Tanaka’s Newly Restored The Oldest Profession

Léa Seydoux, Elle Fanning, and Luca Marinelli Lead New Trailer for Hideo Kojima’s Death Stranding 2: On the Beach

A Palestinian Teacher Fights Back in U.S. Trailer for Farah Nabulsi’s Acclaimed Drama The Teacher

Reviews

SXSW Review: The Threesome is an Ambitious, Flawed Rom-Com From Chad Hartigan

SXSW Review: Rodney Ascher’s Ghost Boy is a Moving, Philosophical Documentary About Being Trapped

You Burn Me Review: Matías Piñeiro Muses on Sapphic Fragments and Unrequited Love

Features

7 Films to See at MoMI’s First Look 2025

Posterized March 2025: Grand Tour, Eephus, Misericordia & More

New to Streaming: Gene Hackman, Michael Mann, Vermiglio, CHAOS: The Manson Murders & More

Interviews

Philippe Lesage on Who by Fire, the Importance of Imperfection, and What TV Can Never Steal From Cinema

Bruno Dumont on The Empire, Star Wars, and the Maelstrom of Human Nature

Matías Piñeiro on You Burn Me, Departing Shakespeare, and Hong Sangsoo’s Constant Reinvention

Podcasts

The Film Stage Presents Emulsion: Episode One

The B-Side – 2025 Oscars Special (with Joe Reid & Chris Feil)

The B-Side – Peter Hyams (with Mike Ryan)

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