Zhuo-Ning Su’s Top 10 Films of 2022

Following The Film Stage's collective top 50 films of 2022, as part of our year-end coverage, our contributors are sharing their personal top 10 lists. Thre...

The Film Stage’s Top 50 Films of 2022

For our most comprehensive year-end feature we’re providing a cumulative look at The Film Stage’s favorite films of 2022. We’ve asked contributors to comp...

Mia Hansen-Løve on the Quest to Understand Life Through Filmmaking

Filmmakers are not their films, but Mia Hansen-Løve continues drawing the assumption. Her eighth feature, One Fine Morning, extends a series of semi-autobiogra...

Miguel Gomes Completes Selvajaria, Set to Direct Grand Tour

After crafting one of the most playfully inventive lockdown films with this year's The Tsugua Diaries (co-directed by Maureen Fazendeiro), Portuguese director ...

Slamdance Film Festival Unveils 2023 Lineup

Just two days before Sundance Film Festival will unveil its lineup, the other major January Utah festival has released theirs. Now in its 29th iteration, next ...

Framing Agnes Review: A Riveting, Hybrid Study of Trans History

In order to best explain the field of ethnomethodology, which studies how social order comes to happen through the actions of individuals, sociologist Harold G...

Tony Kushner on The Fabelmans, His Friendship with Steven Spielberg, and Casting David Lynch

The longest answer you’ve ever received might as well come from Tony Kushner, whose status American writer par excellence exceeds most known precedent or (full...

NYFF Review: Nobel Prize Winner Annie Ernaux Memorializes the Past in The Super 8 Years

At a brisk 60 minutes, Annie Ernaux and David Ernaux-Briot’s mother-son collaboration The Super 8 Years doesn’t leave time for introductions. Ernaux, a recent ...

Albert Serra on Pacifiction, Rotten Decadence, and Breaking Free of Cinematic Clichés

In the middle of the 1970s, Sergei Parajanov was killing time. Imprisoned for what the authorities considered subversive activities (he was, amongst other thin...

The Munsters Review: Rob Zombie Fashions a Wholly Personal Use of IP

It was hard to picture how Rob Zombie’s film adaptation of The Munsters might play. Would it be, say, a profanity-laden '70s period piece where Grandpa Munster...