Bill Graham’s Top 10 Films of 2014
Top 10 lists from critics groups usually have a tendency to eliminate oddities and mellow out the field. But when you have personal selections, like many of m...
Elisabeth Moss
The Most Overlooked Films of 2014
The 40 films that made less than $1 million that you should've seen....
The Film Stage’s Holiday Gift Guide
The holidays are in full swing, and this Christmas brings a good slate of options for cinephiles. We've compiled the best Blu-ray sets, books, albums, games, and more that are tailored to our tastes here at The Film Stage, and which we hope our readers will enjoy giving (or treating themselves to)....
The Best Directorial Debuts of 2014
While we discuss a breadth of films each year, few things give us more pleasure than the arrival of bold, new voices in the world of filmmaking. It's why we venture to film festivals and pore over a variety of different features in order to bring to light emerging talent. This year was an especially notable time for new directors making their stamp and today we're highlighted the fifteen debuts that most impressed us....
New to Streaming: ‘Thief,’ ‘We Need to Talk About Kevin,’ ‘The Skeleton Twins,’ ‘Magic in the Moonlight,’ and More
With a seemingly endless amount of streaming options -- not only the titles at our disposal, but services themselves -- we've taken it upon ourselves to ...
Jason Schwartzman Talks ‘Listen Up Philip,’ Extensive Collaboration, Creative Immersion, and Current Music
"When I met him for dinner, within 30 seconds I felt like, “We have to make this movie.” Then, once I was in this movie, our collaboration was the best. It was just so generous of him."...
Alex Ross Perry on ‘Listen Up Philip,’ Selling Your Movie, the Importance of Producers, and Literary Roots
It was only a year ago when Alex Ross Perry's name was mentioned primarily among a small, supportive group of cinephiles, this contingent visibly excited by...
NYFF 2014 Line-Up Includes ‘Foxcatcher,’ ‘Sils Maria,’ ‘Maps to the Stars,’ ‘Eden,’ and More
With David Fincher's Gone Girl, Paul Thomas Anderson's Inherent Vice, and Alejandro González Iñárritu's Birdman occupying the New York Film Festival 2014 sl...
New to Streaming: ‘The One I Love,’ ‘Palo Alto,’ ‘Southcliffe,’ ‘The Strange Little Cat,’ and More
With a seemingly endless amount of streaming options -- not only the titles at our disposal, but services themselves -- we believe it's our duty to highligh...
Posterized August 2014: ‘Guardians of the Galaxy,’ ‘Sin City,’ ‘Starred Up,’ and More
“Don’t Judge a Book by Its Cover” is a proverb whose simple existence proves the fact impressionable souls will do so without fail. This monthly column focuse...