The Film Stage

The thing about filmmaker John Sayles is that he has done everything. Do you love Steven Spielberg’s E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial or Tobe Hooper’s Poltergeist? Sayles’ unmade screenplay Night Skies is a piece of the source code for both classics. How...

Making his long-awaited return to feature filmmaking after a 12-year absence, Gregg Aaraki was back at Sundance this year to premiere I Want Your Sex, an erotic comedy that brings together Olivia Wilde, Cooper Hoffman, Charli XCX, Daveed Diggs, Mason...

Certain beliefs unite all of humanity. Take, for example, the idea that the extraordinary is possible. Or, even more, that the impossible is possible. Steven Spielberg isn’t shy about believing in extraterrestrial life, and he doesn’t think you should be...

Recently earning the high honors of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for his novel Angel Down, author Daniel Kraus’ prior book Whalefall has been adapted for the big screen. Co-written and directed by Brian Duffield, the thriller follows Austin Abrams...

Premiering at Sundance Film Festival earlier this year and recently stopping by Cannes, it’ll be a remarkable year if there’s a better documentary to arrive than Once Upon a Time in Harlem. An extraordinary time capsule featuring footage the late William...

Family and belonging structure society to a mythical scale, their symbolic value readily plugged into ideologies categorizing the world into binaries—”us” and “them,” “familiar” and “foreign,” “left” and “right.” Persistent as they are in our collective imagination, these remnants of...

Alex Vlack’s The Revisionist has all the elements of a great comedy of manners before reverting to something quite obviously foreshadowed in the film’s opening scenes. Perhaps having that context will give some extra gravity upon rewatching, but it’s still a shame...

Returning to feature filmmaking five years ago with The Power of the Dog, we’ve been waiting to see when Jane Campion will come back to the big screen. While not a new project, this summer will see the release of...

NYC Weekend Watch is our weekly round-up of repertory offerings. Film at Lincoln CenterHistory, Italian Style begins with Visconti’s Senso and The Leopard, films by the Tavianis, and Florestano Vancini’s Liberty on 35mm. Museum of Modern ArtThe exquisitely programmed Universal...

Welcome to The B-Side! Here we talk about movie stars! Not the movies that made them famous or kept them famous, but the ones that they made in between.  Today we discuss perhaps the most likeable movie star alive: Goldie...