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June on the Criterion Channel Includes Paul Schrader, Jean Grémillon, Synth Soundtracks & More
by admin|1 year ago|The Film Stage
Oh, Canada debuting this week on the Croisette is high time to see lesser-seen Schrader on the Criterion Channel, who’ll debut an 11-title series including the likes of Touch, The Canyons, and Patty Hearst, while Old Boyfriends (written with his...
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Heeramandi: The Diamond Bazaar Wastes Its Lavish Potential
by admin|1 year ago|Roger Ebert
Director Sanjay Leela Bhansali is one of Hindi cinema’s best directors. His name is synonymous with sumptuous costumes, opulent production design, vivid female lead characters, expertly directed songs that function like short films, and soaring music. Actresses over the years...
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Amnesiascope Presents a Rare Jean-Luc Godard Film at the Brooklyn Center for Theatre Research on May 28
by admin|1 year ago|The Film Stage
My screening series Amnesiascope will have its next event on Tuesday, May 28 at the Brooklyn Center for Theatre Research. It was only a matter of time until I showed a film by Jean-Luc Godard, and if it’s so early...
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New Details Emerge on Richard Linklater’s Nouvelle Vague, “The Story of a Personal Revolution In Cinema”
by admin|1 year ago|The Film Stage
First look notwithstanding, details have been few and far between on Richard Linklater’s Nouvelle Vague, largely understood to concern the production of Jean-Luc Godard’s Breathless, making notable a new set report from Les Inrockuptibles. It should’ve been obvious from the...
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National Anthem Trailer: Charlie Plummer Searches for the American Dream in Queer Drama
by admin|1 year ago|The Film Stage
After exploring the American frontier in Andrew Haigh’s Lean on Pete, Charlie Plummer returns to the terrain with Luke Gilford’s directorial debut National Anthem. Premiering at last year’s SXSW, the film follows a construction worker who joins a community of...
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​Nocturnal Suburban Teen Angst Fantasia: Jane Schoenbrun on I Saw the TV Glow
by admin|1 year ago|Roger Ebert
With their surreal and shimmering “I Saw the TV Glow,” Jane Schoenbrun has made one of the year’s defining films—an eerie and overwhelmingly potent meditation on teenage dysphoria, repression, and representation, in which two high school classmates obsess over a...
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MEGALOPOLIS Teaser Trailer: Francis Ford Coppola’s Passion Piece Imagines a New Civilization
by admin|1 year ago|Hammer to Nail
As the 77th Cannes Film Festival kicks off today, Francis Ford Coppola has just increased our anticipation with an epic new teaser for his passion piece Megalopolis. His first film in over a decade since 2011’s Twixt, Coppola (a two-time...
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John Wilson on Viewing Habits, Burning Man Regrets, and Life After How To…
by admin|1 year ago|The Film Stage
What kind of things does an obsessive documentarian like to watch in their free time? It’s a question I was curious to ask John Wilson, a filmmaker who––over three seasons of his singular HBO series, How To with John Wilson––achieved...
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Recommended New Books on Filmmaking: Scarface, Quentin Tarantino, Dune: Exposures, Candy Darling & More
by admin|1 year ago|The Film Stage
Our latest look at new and recent books about (or connected to) cinema includes looks at a couple beloved classics (Scarface and The Blues Brothers), a unique photography book by Dune dudes Josh Brolin and Greig Fraser, and a deeply...
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Exclusive: Cinema Guild Acquires Jessica Dunn Rovinelli’s So Pretty and Empathy
by admin|1 year ago|The Film Stage
A pair of films we’ve been hoping find a home have now been acquired. We’re pleased to exclusively announce that Cinema Guild has secured North American distribution rights for two films directed by Jessica Dunn Rovinelli, So Pretty and Empathy....
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