The Film Stage - Page 912

‘Dumbo’ Review: Tim Burton Directs a Drab, Deadened Disney Remake

The onslaught of "live action" Disney adaptations of their animated films is a confounding one in many ways. They seem to be committed to remaking only their mo...

‘Phantom Cowboys’ Trailer Turns the Spotlight on Small-Town Teenage Ennui

Premiering at Tribeca Film Festival 2018, Hide Your Smiling Faces director Daniel Patrick Carbone brought his powerful, lyrical new documentary Phantom Cowboy...

The Future of Filmmaking: A Comprehensive Preview of New Directors/New Films 2019

Now in its 48th edition, the NYC-based film festival continues to spotlight directors representing the future of filmmaking and this year's edition is particularly eclectic....

ND/NF Review: ‘Long Way Home’ is a Warm, Patient Study of the Rhythms of Everyday Life

Representing the rhythms of everyday life is, generally speaking, a particular concern of films situated outside the mainstream. Relatively free from the strict...

ND/NF Review: ‘End of the Century’ is a Love Story Drenched in a Nostalgic Magical Realism

Two travelers—Ocho, an aspiring poet from New York, and Javi, a Spanish director from Germany—spend a single day together in Barcelona in the opening act of Luc...

ND/NF Review: ‘Suburban Birds’ is a Harmonious, Intriguing Debut Feature

Something is causing the ground to shift underneath a new Chinese suburb in writer-director Qiu Sheng’s intriguing, adept debut feature. High-rise towers are li...

ND/NF Review: ‘Angelo’ Conveys Prejudices Often Made Invisible Within the Art World

There is no question that white people are and have historically been capable of racism. The value of Angelo resides in its ability to convey those prejudices t...

SXSW Review: ‘The Day Shall Come’ Sets Its Satirical Sights on the War on Terror

Allegedly based upon a hundred true stories, The Day Shall Come, directed by Chris Morris (Four Lions), is another comedy satirizing the theatrics involved in t...

ND/NF Review: ‘Honeyland’ is a Vérité Documentary of an Idyllic Existence Upturned

The issue of matching approach to subject is always a central concern in documentary filmmaking, even moreso than narrative films. Due to the truth claims invol...

ND/NF Review: ‘Belonging’ is a Bold Grappling with Love, Death, and Memory

The nature of promise displayed by a new filmmaker can sometimes be an inherently risky proposition. For every Orson Welles or Jacques Rivette, who burst out of...

News

NYC Weekend Watch: Korean Cinema’s Celluloid Fever, Southland Tales, Gamer & More

The Criterion Channel’s June Lineup Features Odysseys, Weddings, James Bond, and Brian Eno

First Look at Pascal Plante’s Red Rooms Follow-Up King’s Daughters Starring Sandrine Bonnaire

Trailers

Exclusive Trailer and Poster for Lisandro Alonso’s Double Freedom Marks a Powerful Reunion

Isabelle Huppert and Delphine Seyrig Inhabit an Artist In Exclusive Trailer and Poster for Liliane de Kermadec’s Aloïse

The Rivals of Amziah King Trailer: Matthew McConaughey Leads Andrew Patterson’s Crime Thriller

Reviews

Cannes Review: With Club Kid, Jordan Firstman Announces Himself as a Director to Watch

Cannes Review: Fatherland Finds Paweł Pawlikowski in a Heady, Aching Register

Cannes Review: Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma Is a Joyful Addition to Jane Schoenbrun’s Box of Mysteries

Features

New to Streaming: Yes, The Love That Remains, The Christophers, Project Hail Mary & More

The Best Movies Now Playing in Theaters

NYC Weekend Watch: Kazuhiko Hasegawa, Pynchonesque, Max and Richard Fleischer, the Pusher Trilogy & More

Interviews

“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

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

Podcasts

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

The B-Sides of Chow Yun-Fat

Josh Heaps on the DIY Horror of City Wide Fever

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