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New to Streaming: The Brutalist, The Wedding Banquet, Deaf President Now!, I’m Still Here & More

by admin|2 months ago16 May 2025|The Film Stage

Each week we highlight the noteworthy titles that have recently hit streaming platforms in the United States. Check out this week’s selections below and past round-ups here. The Brutalist (Brady Corbet) Brady Corbet’s long-gestating architecture epic looks and feels as painstakingly...

2025 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 3 – Óliver Laxe’s ‘Sirat’

by admin|2 months ago16 May 2025|Ioncinema

When he was selected for the prestigious competition section this past April, Paris-born Spanish of Galician background filmmaker Óliver Laxe achieved a remarkable feat of having all four of his films in all sections of Cannes. His first three films...

2025 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 3 – Dominik Moll’s ‘Dossier 137’

by admin|2 months ago16 May 2025|Ioncinema

Known for a filmography heavy into psychological thriller portraits with noir and crime element trimmings, the French-German filmmaker saw his second and third features films land in the Palme d’Or competition back with With a Friend Like Harry… (2000) and...

Sirat | 2025 Cannes Film Festival Review

by admin|2 months ago16 May 2025|Ioncinema

A Bridge Too Far: Laxe Enters the Zone “The Zone wants to be respected. Otherwise it will punish.” Aleksandr Kayadonvsky’s line from Tarkovsky’s existential sci-fi classic Stalker (1979) comes to mind when viewing Sirat, the fourth and arguably most accessible...

NYC Weekend Watch: Cymbeline, Malcolm X, Kira Muratova, Fury Road on 35mm & More

by admin|2 months ago15 May 2025|The Film Stage

NYC Weekend Watch is our weekly round-up of repertory offerings. Brooklyn Center for Theatre ResearchMichael Almereyda’s Cymbeline screens on Friday with the director present for an intro and Q&A. BAMA celebration of Malcolm X’s centennial brings Spike Lee’s biopic, Black...

The Ballad of Suzanne Césaire Trailer: Madeleine Hunt-Ehrlich’s Striking Debut Arrives in June

by admin|2 months ago15 May 2025|The Film Stage

A directorial debut as hypnotic as it is narratively destabilizing, Madeleine Hunt-Ehrlich was one of my favorite discoveries of last year’s New York Film Festival. A post-biopic about Caribbean surrealist Suzanne Césaire, deconstructing the process of bringing an actually-lived life...

Dossier 137 | 2025 Cannes Film Festival Review

by admin|2 months ago15 May 2025|Ioncinema

Investigation of Citizens Above Suspicion: Moll Persists with Police Procedural Dominik Moll reunites with his usual collaborating scribe Gilles Marchand in Dossier 137, their third genre oriented title in a row following Only the Animals (2019) and their runaway hit...

Cannes 2025 Video #1: Robert De Niro Receives Honorary Palme d’Or and Advocates Protecting Democracy and Art

by admin|2 months ago15 May 2025|Roger Ebert

The opening days of the fest included strong words from Palme recipient Robert De Niro on our present political moment.

‘Hurry Up Tomorrow’ Review: The Weeknd Leans into Histrionic, Doom-Laden Navel-Gazing

by admin|2 months ago15 May 2025|Slant Magazine

The film is less a work of clear-eyed introspection than a calculated image rebrand. The post ‘Hurry Up Tomorrow’ Review: The Weeknd Leans into Histrionic, Doom-Laden Navel-Gazing appeared first on Slant Magazine.