DOC NYC Review: ‘Personhood’ is an Essential Look at a Horrific Legal Saga
Highlighting the consequences of personhood laws, which essentially prioritize the rights of an unborn fetus over those of the woman carrying the child, Jo Ardi...
Personhood
Michael Snydel’s Top 10 Films of 2017
From movies about penances for personal hells that seemed to last eternities to stories about revelatory summers over in a blink, these ten choices are all movies whose main appeal for me were about their manipulation, presentation, or subversion of the passage of time....
The Best Performances of 2017
We highlight our 35 favorite performances in films this year....
Greta Gerwig on How ‘Lady Bird’ Represents a New Kind of Coming-of-Age Tale
Gerwig talks exploring the personhood of a young woman, the sometimes volatile love between mother and daughter, and sneaking into NYFF during college....
‘State Legislature’: Frederick Wiseman’s Tome on Democracy in Modernity
State Legislature is incidentally documentary-as-synecdoche and an indirect experiment in projection....
‘Hi, Mom!’: Brian De Palma’s Revolution as Peep Show
We look at the director's early Robert De Niro-led satire and its parallels to Taxi Driver....
Trailer for D.A. Pennebaker and Chris Hegedus’ ‘Unlocking the Cage’ Confronts Animal Rights
The great D.A. Pennebaker and his spouse / frequent collaborator Chris Hegedus have made something of a splash with Unlocking the Cage, the rare animal-righ...
[Sundance Review] Unlocking the Cage
Revered documentarian duo Chris Hegedus and D. A. Pennebaker have been in the game long enough that putting together a reasonably engaging piece of work on an u...
The Film Stage’s Top 50 Films of the Decade (So Far)
As we hit the half-way point of the decade, we count down our 50 favorite films thus far....
Robert Bresson’s ‘Pickpocket’ Hits Criterion: An Early Example of the Art House Crime Film
Writing about the films of Robert Bresson usually begins by informing reader that his films must be discussed through a trance of hushed tones and quiet ven...