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The Film Stage Show Special Report – Chicago International Film Festival 2018 (Part 1)

We discuss the films we’ve seen thus far at CIFF–including Ash is Purest White, Transit, Non-Fiction, and more–and about the strange and rewarding experience of attending the festival....

The Films within Films of ‘The Other Side of The Wind’ and ‘La Flor’

At the 56th New York Film Festival there were titles that have intrigued, beguiled, and challenged viewers, perhaps none more so than Mariano Llinás’ fourteen-hour grand experiment and Orson Welles’ posthumously released film....

Review: ‘An Evening With Beverly Luff Linn’ is an Off-Kilter Hybrid Between David Lynch and ‘Napoleon Dynamite’

Writer-director Jim Hosking seems determined to entertain–and divide. From a segment in The ABCs of Death 2 to his feature debut The Greasy Strangler, it was ma...

Review: ‘Life and Nothing More’ Provides a Front Row Seat to Racial Injustice Sans Sensationalism

Many filmmakers find the need to politicize truths without realizing or believing their existence has already politicized them. There's power in this sort of ma...

Review: ‘The Night Comes For Us’ Carves a ‘The Raid’-Esque Tableaux of Carnage

When considering writer-director Timo Tjahjanto’s new film, it will be difficult to omit two words: The Raid. Similarities between the two certainly have their ...

‘The Kid Who Would Be King’ Trailer: ‘Attack the Block’ Director Joe Cornish Returns

After arriving on the scene back in 2011 with his mightly impressive directorial debut Attack the Block (along with a writing credit on The Adventures of Ti...

Nicole Kidman Faces Her Demons in First Trailer for Karyn Kusama’s ‘Destroyer’

Following up her small-scale, impressive thriller The Invitation, Karyn Kusama has given Nicole Kidman quite a transformative showcase with Destroyer. Follo...

‘Searching for Ingmar Bergman’ Trailer Takes an Intimate Look at a Legendary Director

The celebration of Ingmar Bergman's immaculate career continues on his birth centenary. Well-timed with the release of The Criterion Collection's epic new b...

The Film Stage Show Ep. 314 – First Man

Welcome, one and all, to the latest installment of The Film Stage Show! Today, Michael Snydel, Bill Graham and I discuss the newest film from director Damie...

The B-Side – Anne Hathaway

Dan Mecca and Jared Mobarak discuss the neglected films in Anna Hathaway's career....

News

Japan Cuts Announces 2026 Slate Featuring Hirokazu Kore-eda, Gakuryu Ishii, Yoji Yamada & More

Alice Rohrwacher to Direct The Baron in the Trees; Next Film to Be Primarily Silent

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Trailers

Marcello Mastroianni Yearns In Trailer for 4K Restoration of Luchino Visconti’s White Nights

Exclusive Trailer for Greg Vrotsos’ Feature Debut Situations Follows a Journey of Love and Ambition in Los Angeles

Reviews

The Death of Robin Hood Review: A Portrait of the Outlaw as a Bald-Faced Lie

Cemre Paksoy’s Hands Are Tied In Trailer for Georgia Bernstein’s Sinister Sundance Favorite Night Nurse

Tribeca Review: Here I’m Alive Is a Raw, Intimate Look at Messy New York Lives

Features

The Film Stage’s 2026 Tribeca Festival Portrait Gallery

NYC Weekend Watch: Italian History, Universal Westerns, Black Cops & More

Posterized June 2026: Maddie’s Secret, The Furious, Drunken Noodles & More

Interviews

“The Hard Work Is In the Screenwriting”: John Sayles on Resourceful Filmmaking, James Cameron, and His TIFF Retrospective

The Currents Director Milagros Mumenthaler on Sensory Filmmaking, Motherhood, and Capturing an Internal State

“Making Movies Should Be a Pleasure”: Olivier Assayas on The Wizard of the Kremlin

Podcasts

The B-Sides of Goldie Hawn with Jen Johans

The B-Sides of Laurence Fishburne with Mitchell Beaupre

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

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