The Film Stage

Amalia Ulman has followed El Planeta, one of this decade’s most auspicious debuts, with the equal-parts caustic and sincere Magic Farm. With its limited release beginning today, I had the fortune of speaking with her and Chloë Sevigny in an...

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. Babygirl (Halina Reijn) Premiering with much fervor at the Venice Film Festival, Halina Reijn’s Bodies Bodies...

NYC Weekend Watch is our weekly round-up of repertory offerings. Museum of the Moving ImageTom Gunning is celebrated in a weekend-long series featuring M on 35mm, Hal Hartley’s Flirt, and an avant-garde program; films by Buster Keaton and Renny Harlin...

A filmmaker whose work always renders as thrillingly intimate and alive, Roberto Minervini (Stop the Pounding Heart, What You Gonna Do When The World’s On Fire?) took another unexpected turn in his latest film. The Damned, which picked up the...

Tom Hardy simultaneously fights corrupt cops and the Triad from the director of The Raid is, on paper, a pretty amazing pitch. Marrying Hardy’s gruff pivot back to genre fare––i.e. MobLand––after a number of years in the Venom wilderness with...

While Asghar Farhadi’s first ventures working internationally with the French-set The Past, starring Bérénice Bejo and Tahar Rahim, and the Spanish-language drama Everybody Knows, starring Javier Bardem and Penélope Cruz, didn’t quite Iive up to the Iranian director’s finest works,...

Before Virginie Efira can be seen reteaming with her Other People’s Children director Rebecca Zlotowski in the Cannes-bound Vie privée, one of the actor’s previous festival selections is finally arriving stateside. Delphine Deloget’s drama All to Play For, which premiered...

We are now well into 2025, and our latest column features several books that will likely rank among the year’s finest and most important releases. Plus, this column features a lengthy rundown of new and recent novels that should be...

Directing the best American film of 2024 that’s also the uber-rare piece of experimental art to screen in multiplexes and––you know where this is headed––massive box-office bomb would typically spell the end of a director’s career. It’s to his fortune...

After the initial main announcement and sidebars, the full Cannes Film Festival lineup has now come into focus with 16 additions today. Highlights include Lynne Ramsay’s Die My Love, starring Jennifer Lawrence and Robert Pattinson, in competition, while elsewhere Kristen...