The Film Stage - Page 91

Predators Director David Osit on Subverting the True Crime Genre, Verité Filmmaking, and Diverse Reactions

David Osit’s Predators makes supremely challenging viewing. In a world of snap judgments, the film, which premiered at Sundance this January and open...

MEGADOC Review: Behind the Scenes of Francis Ford Coppola’s Legendary Big Swing

Note: This review was originally published as part of our 2025 Venice coverage. MEGADOC opens in theaters on September 19. A risky filmmaking project with F...

Predators Reviewing: Unpacking the Moral Complexities of a Hit Reality Show

Note: This review was originally published as part of our 2025 Sundance coverage. Predators opens in theaters on September 19. Filmmaker David Osit gives vi...

Plainclothes Review: A Riveting Paranoia Thriller About Coming Out

Note: This review was originally published as part of our 2025 Sundance coverage. Plainclothes opens in theaters on September 19. Set years before George Mi...

The Summer Book Review: A Clunky Drama Connecting Landscape and Soul

Note: This review was originally published as part of our 2024 BFI London coverage. The Summer Book opens in theaters on September 19. In Charlie McDowell’s...

Beautiful, Melancholic, Philosophical: Mike Figgis on Francis Ford Coppola, Megalopolis, and MEGADOC

Reflecting on Francis Ford Coppola’s Megalopolis a year later, after all the memes, hyperbolic hitpieces, and even some admiring reviews, it’s likely public op...

Watch: Scarlett Johansson Finds Rituals in Yorgos Lanthimos-Directed Prada Ad

If one finds it a bit hard to endure feature-length works by Yorgos Lanthimos these days, he may have found his ideal mode of expression in (certainly well-pay...

A Big Bold Beautiful Journey Review: Kogonada Crafts a Lovely Adventure with Trademark Empathy

If there’s a thread running through Kogonada’s films to date, it’s his distinct fascination with spare, deeply human character studies unfolding within meticul...

Remembering Robert Redford (with Blake Howard)

In remembrance of the legendary Robert Redford, we're resharing this conversation from 2024 on his extraordinary career and most overlooked performances. We...

Exclusive: Japan Society Announces October Series Shiguéhiko Hasumi: Another History of the Movie in America and Japan

In a late contender for series of the year, New York's Japan Society has given programming carte blanche to Shiguéhiko Hasumi––a critic, theorist, and scholar ...

News

The Criterion Collection’s October Lineup Features The Silence of the Lambs and Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein on 4K, Jerzy Skolimowski, and Samuel Fuller

Locarno Film Festival Unveils 2026 Lineup

Eleanor Coppola’s Documentary on the Making of Sofia Coppola’s Marie Antoinette Is Coming Soon

Trailers

Filipiñana Trailer: Rafael Manuel’s Jia Zhangke-Backed Sundance Winner Opens This August

Domhnall Gleeson Encounters a Strange Land In First Trailer for The Incomer

Tony Gilroy Returns in First Trailer for Behemoth!

Reviews

The Odyssey Review: Christopher Nolan’s Journey of Perpetual, Enervating Awe

The Kidnapping of Arabella Review: Offbeat Italian Road Trip Comedy

Night Nurse Review: A Perverse, Seductive Thriller

Features

NYC Weekend Watch: The Hole, Electronica, Gakuryu Ishii, Nicholas Ray & More

The Best Movies Now Playing in Theaters

New to Streaming: The Furious, City Wide Fever, Amores Perros, Camp & More

Interviews

Tsai Ming-liang on the Personal Inspiration of The Hole, Constant Evolution, and His Next Films

“How Do You Make a Contemporary Erotic Thriller”: Georgia Bernstein on Night Nurse and Catherine Breillat

David Wain on the Hard Work of Making Dumb Jokes

Podcasts

Yasmina Tawil on Progamming Hou Hsiao-hsien, David Fincher, Tom Tykwer & More for BAM’s Electronica Series

The B-Sides of Julia Roberts with Joe Reid

The B-Sides of Steven Spielberg with Bilge Ebiri

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