The Film Stage

More than the similarly mythologized Monsters, Inc., the first stop-motion feature produced in Mexico (courtesy of the Cinema Fantasma studio) recalls an old childhood favorite from the ’80s: Little Monsters. Just like that Fred Savage vehicle, writers-directors Los Hermanos Ambriz...

As the fall festival lineup continues to take shape, a major piece has now slid into place. Film at Lincoln Center has announced Luca Guadagnino’s After the Hunt will open the 63rd New York Film Festival, making its North American...

In their documentary Folktales, Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady weave Norse mythology (specifically that of “the three Norns”) and evocative imagery (courtesy of DP Lars Erlend Tubaas Øymo) with the modern-day story of northern Norway’s Pasvik Folk High School, a...

We enter Steve Pink’s Terrestrial with a tour through an opulent home––broken glass on the floor, a blood trail towards the door, and Allen (Jermaine Fowler) sat against the wall in a frozen panic. Before we can even begin to...

We’re now less than three months away from Paul Thomas Anderson’s highly anticipated One Battle After Another. The September 26 release, which would set it up nicely for a fall festival run if PTA so desires, will feature an IMAX...

You’d have to be very bad at interviews, or really just conversations, to not get something from Abel Ferrara, who’s the perfect combination of endearing and pugnacious, amenable to ideas while unable to entertain even a hint of bullshit. He’s...

Celebrating its 82nd edition this year, Venice Film Festival will take place August 27 through September 6. Ahead of the event, President Pietrangelo Buttafuoco and Director Alberto Barbera have now unveiled the lineup. Highlights include new films from Jim Jarmusch,...

As someone who’s always admired the look of the Czech embassy in Berlin––an array of nicotine-hued trapezoids that sits on the corner of Wilhelm Strasse––I was pleased to discover that the Spa Hotel Thermal in Karlovy Vary was designed up...

After a flurry of features directing with his brother Mark Duplass from 2005’s The Puffy Chair to 2012’s The Do-Deca-Pentathlon, Jay Duplass is now helming his first solo feature. This year’s The Baltimorons stars Michael Strassner (who co-wrote the script...

Following her acclaimed features I’ll Show You Mine, Lucky Them, Eden, and Sadie, filmmaker Megan Griffiths returned this year with the Eliza Flug-scripted Year of the Fox. Led by Sarah Jeffery, Jane Adams, Jake Weber, Lexi Simonsen, and Balthazar Getty,...