The Film Stage

Upon hearing the name “Dorothy” I, like most, immediately think of The Wizard of Oz. I remember watching the film when I was a kid, sitting on the couch with my family. I remember my parents calling it “a classic.”...

Likely that Criterion were developing their 4K upgrade of High and Low––a film they released so long ago that it was then subject to a “high-definition digital transfer”––well before any date was set for Spike Lee’s Highest 2 Lowest, but...

Love is a commodity in Materialists, the second feature from Past Lives writer-director Celine Song. Dakota Johnson plays Lucy, a matchmaker for an elite dating service. Money problems had forced a breakup with John (Chris Evans), a struggling actor. Harry...

Following the theatrical releases of Eephus and Christmas Eve in Miller’s Point, the next feature from Omnes Films is coming to U.S. theaters. We’re thrilled to exclusively announce Factory 25 has acquired worldwide rights to Alexandra Simpson’s feature-directing debut No...

Materialists is a film with a classic screwball setup: a young, beautiful matchmaker meets the charming, rich man of her dreams on the same night she runs into her broke, handsome ex-boyfriend. But Celine Song’s sophomore feature takes a more...

The release of a new Tom Cruise film is less about the film than it is about Tom Cruise. Ceaseless junket and red-carpet interviews with supposed journalists who were perhaps invented on the spot to ask him questions, clips of...

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. Bonjour Tristesse (Durga Chew-Bose) There was slight trepidation going into Bonjour Tristesse. Justifying itself as another...

A challenging film to both review and market without spoiling, Paul Andrew Williams’ Dragonfly largely succeeds because it never quite telegraphs where it’s going until its third act. My thoughts are with the distributor that eventually picks up this film...

Michael Angelo Covino and Kyle Marvin know no sophomore slump. The best-friend filmmakers––who met acting opposite each other in a commercial 15 years ago and made their feature debut nine years later with bromance bike comedy The Climb––write, produce, and...

For as singular, unprecedented, non-pareil an artist David Lynch may have been, his vision was achieved with a small band of trusted collaborators. Chief among them was Peter Deming, who Lynch hired to shoot the little-seen, frankly underrated TV series...