The Film Stage

Legendary French actress Jeanne Balibar teamed with Maxime Rappaz for his directorial debut Let Me Go, a drama about self-discovery set in the Swiss Alps, which world premiered at Cannes ACID in 2023 and will now arrive this month from...

It would be no disrespect to imagine Clint Eastwood, who turns 95 tomorrow, might have retired. Even if his nigh incomprehensible age were no factor, last year’s Juror #2 was long rumored to be a self-styled swan song for one...

One of the loveliest titles I saw at last year’s New York Film Festival was Pierre Creton (A Prince) and Vincent Barré’s tranquil, rejuvenating new documentary 7 Walks with Mark Brown. Following paleobotanist Mark Brown on seven walks through Normandy’s...

Halfway through Imago, an engaging documentary from Déni Oumar Pitsaev, the director has a conversation with his mother about the piece of property she bought for him in Pankisi (a valley in Georgia near the Chechnya border). When he asks...

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. Bono: Stories of Surrender (Andrew Dominik) After his wildly divisive Blonde was released three years ago,...

NYC Weekend Watch is our weekly round-up of repertory offerings. Roxy CinemaWe’re presenting an IB Technicolor print of Howard Hawks’ Hatari! this Friday and Sunday; Friday also brings Mad Max: Fury Road on 35mm and Agnès Varda’s Lions Love (…and...

Bernardo Bertolucci’s Little Buddha returned to theaters this month in a 4K restoration ahead of a 4K UHD on July 22 from Kino Lorber. The film follows Jesse, a 10-year-old American boy believed to be the reincarnation of the revered...

After crafting a promising debut with The Sharks, a Best Director winner at Sundance in 2019, Uruguayan filmmaker Lucía Garibaldi is back with her second feature. A Bright Future (Un futuro brillante) will world-premiere on June 5 at the Viewpoints...

While he stays prolific on the directing side with this year’s After the Hunt, after last year’s double offering of Challengers and Queer, Luca Guadagnino is also lending his producing expertise to a number of projects. Along with Dea Kulumbegashvili’s...

Far removed from the mournful yearnings of A Quiet Passion––much less the quotidian, calming rhythms of Paterson––Simón Mesa Soto’s Medellín-set second feature finds unexpected poetry in the jagged, pained misery of dashed dreams and misinterpreted, career-ending good intentions. A Poet’s...