The Film Stage

17 years ago, The Film Stage was born in the city of Buffalo. For those living in or near the Western New York city, the Buffalo International Film Festival should certainly be your radar, curated by Artistic Director John J....

NYC Weekend Watch is our weekly round-up of repertory offerings. Film at Lincoln CenterNYFF Revivals continues with Queen Kelly on Friday and Robert Wilson and the Civil Wars this Sunday. Roxy CinemaStarship Troopers has a 35mm presentation on Friday, while prints of Andrei Rublev and...

Ed Wood died the better part of a half-century ago, and to this day his reputation as the world’s worst filmmaker persists. Even in this era when seemingly everything can be reclaimed, few have made the effort for Plan 9...

One of the most anticipated films in the newly established Competition section at this year’s Busan International Film Festival was Resurrection, an epic look at cinema history from Bi Gan. For almost three hours, his Cannes Jury Special Prize winner...

Cinephiles, rejoice. While there’s no new Quentin Tarantino film on the horizon, a long-awaited holy grail of his filmography is finally getting a major release. Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair––Tarantino’s version of the revenge epic that was originally presented...

Little last year was a greater pleasure than attending the Tokyo International Film Festival, which combines numerous world premieres with restorations and first looks at tomorrow’s major voices. In a few weeks I’ll be returning to the festival, the full...

A romance unlike any other you’ll see on screen this year, Harry Lighton’s Pillion is as touching as it is shocking, exploring a dom-sub relationship within the gay biker milieu. Led by Harry Melling and Alexander Skarsgård, A24 has now...

One of Cannes’ buzziest titles––and by our count, among its best––is coming sooner than expected. Janus Films have set a December 12 theatrical premiere for Bi Gan’s Resurrection, which finds the director following Kaili Blues and Long Day’s Journey Into Night with...

Two Years at Sea is far from the most likely film to get a sequel, yet Ben Rivers––who’s just premiered a new-new project––returned to the Scottish musician Jake Williams (also of the 2007 short This Is My Land) for Bogancloch,...

I didn’t realize just how much I missed Gore Verbinski until I was in the theater watching the straight-up bonkers final act of his latest film, Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die as the final secret screening at this year’s...