The Film Stage

What if two members of Baltimore’s Wham City Comedy took drugs and time traveled to the lo-fi, experimental underground cinematic heyday of Maya Deren to craft a surreally and absurdly bonkers riff on the Ship of Theseus paradox wherein a...

The Criterion Channel’s mass-addition of restorations marked a watershed moment for Hong Kong cinema’s exposure in the United States, but—as with seemingly all else in cinema—there’s always more. Beefing up their collection of Ringo Lam films, then, is an August-bound...

Janus Films has acquired the 4K restoration of René Laloux’s final feature, Gandahar—a notable-enough effort in micro, and more significant for the distributor now possessing rights to all three of the visionary Frenchman’s features. Unfair though it is to set...

We’re delighted to exclusively announce the lineup for the 28th annual Sidewalk Film Festival, taking place in Birmingham, Alabama, from August 24-30. Set to open with John Wilson’s feature debut The History of Concrete and close with Kenya-Jade Pinto’s The...

Unless you’re living in the cave of Polyphemus, you are surely aware that Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey arrives today. With it, Ludwig Göransson’s 23-track, two-hour score—concluding with an end-credits collaboration with Travis Scott and James Blake—is now available to stream....

Now in its 40th edition, Il Cinema Ritrovato has swollen to become a true labyrinth of cinema, a Borgesian garden of forking paths that one goes to get lost in. The festival takes place over nine days across 10 or...

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. Backrooms (Kane Parsons) The opening five minutes serve as an ideal primer for anybody...

NYC Weekend Watch is our weekly round-up of repertory offerings. Roxy CinemaNicholas Ray’s The Lusty Men and On Dangerous Ground screen on 35mm Saturday and Sunday; Basil Dearden’s Victim shows on Friday and a print of Gone with the Pope plays...

Mohammed Ali Naqvi’s nail-biting thriller documentary Hanging by a Wire, which premiered at Sundance earlier this year, has now been acquired by AB2 Media Group and its theatrical releasing division Abramorama. Ahead of an August 28th theatrical release, the first trailer and...

Backed by Moonlight and Minari producers Dede Gardner and Jeremy Kleiner (along with Michel Franco), the coming-of-age tale Olmo will now be arriving next month. A selection at TIFF and Berlinale, Fernando Eimbcke’s film stars Aivan Uttapa, Gustavo Sánchez Parra,...