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The Best Undistributed Films of 2023
by admin|2 years ago|The Film Stage
After highlighting the 50 best films you may have missed this year and our overall top 50 films of 2023, today we put our spotlight on those that need a home in the first place: movies we loved on the...
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Interview: Michel Franco – Memory
by admin|2 years ago|Ioncinema
Unwaveringly dedicated to a cinema of provocation, even if it may appear excessive to more sensitive viewers, auds at the Venice (and Toronto) Film Festivals had the opportunity to glimpse a gentler side of auteur Michel Franco‘s work. That’s not...
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The Boys in the Boat Review: George Clooney Brings a Classical Touch to Underdog Sports Picture
by admin|2 years ago|The Film Stage
George Clooney’s directing career has been one of both ecstasy and agony. His bold, respected spy dramedy debut (Confessions of a Dangerous Mind) was immediately followed by the incredibly lauded (and incredibly great) period drama Good Night and Good Luck....
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The 25 Best TV Series of 2023
by admin|2 years ago|Roger Ebert
At first, it's tempting to suggest that television isn't exactly in a great place at the end of 2023. The headlines this year were more about industry strikes and content algorithms than character or quality. And it feels like most...
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Exclusive Trailer for 4K Restoration of Nancy Savoca’s Household Saints Heralds the Return of a 1993 Gem
by admin|2 years ago|The Film Stage
One of the great restorations of the last year––in the sense that not only is it of pristine quality, but that it invites an underseen gem back into the conversation––is that of Nancy Savoca’s 1993 drama Household Saints, which was...
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Ferrari
by admin|2 years ago|Roger Ebert
Michael Mann has been exploring the flawed personalities of challenging men his entire career, which makes him the perfect choice to unpack the imperfections of Enzo Ferrari, a man who lived to win the race of life. Whether it was the...
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The B-Side – Daniel Day-Lewis (with Fiona Underhill)
by admin|2 years ago|The Film Stage
Welcome to The B-Side, from The Film Stage. Here we talk about movie stars! Not the movies that made them famous or kept them famous, but the ones they made in between. We discuss everyone’s favorite method man: Daniel Day-Lewis....
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Final Trailer for Wong Kar-wai’s Blossoms Shanghai, Premiering Next Week
by admin|3 years ago|The Film Stage
A decade after The Grandmaster, the wait for Wong Kar-wai’s next project has been lengthy, with his long-gestating Blossoms Shanghai first announced nearly five years ago. Now, after three years of filming, the series launches next week on China’s Tencent Video....
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Jean-Luc Godard: Reckoning with the Cinematic Corpus of a Medium-Defining Artist
by admin|3 years ago|The Film Stage
With a title that invokes both the specific (cinema of Godard) and the universal (cinema is Godard), Cyril Leuthy’s Godard Cinema finds itself in conversation with another formulation: Everything is Cinema. Richard Brody’s 2008 study of the filmmaker, is beautifully...
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A Conversation with Wim Wenders (ANSELM & PERFECT DAYS)
by admin|3 years ago|Hammer to Nail
Wim Wenders, hailing from Germany, is one of the greatest filmmakers of all time. He has been making films for over 50 years and wrote and directed his first feature in 1971 called Summer in the City. In 1976, Wenders...
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