The Film Stage

Paul Mescal and Josh O’Connor Form Delicate Love in First Trailer for The History of Sound
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Following up his Akira Kurosawa remake Living, Oliver Hermanus brought his queer drama The History of Sound, starring Paul Mescal and Josh O’Connor, to Cannes Film Festival earlier this year. With a September 12 release date now set from MUBI,...
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Train Dreams Trailer: Joel Edgerton Leads Denis Johnson Adaptation
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One of the year’s most beautiful, aching films is Clint Bentley’s Train Dreams, a Denis Johnson adaptation that premiered at Sundance Film Festival. With a cast featuring Joel Edgerton, Felicity Jones, Nathaniel Arcand, Clifton Collins Jr., John Diehl, Paul Schneider,...
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Jim Jarmusch’s Father Mother Sister Brother is Centerpiece Selection of NYFF63
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Following yesterday’s announcement of Luca Guadagnino’s After the Hunt as opener, Film at Lincoln Center has announced Jim Jarmusch’s Father Mother Sister Brother as the Centerpiece selection of the 63rd New York Film Festival. Following its world premiere at Venice,...
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Full Trailer for Paul Thomas Anderson’s One Battle After Another Brings the Anarchy
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We’re now just two months away from Paul Thomas Anderson’s highly anticipated One Battle After Another. Ahead of the September 26 release, which features an IMAX and 70mm roll-out, Warner Bros. has now finally started to kick up the marketing...
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Diciannove Review: Giovanni Tortorici’s Debut Feature is Full of Style But Lacks a Backbone
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Luca Guadagnino, for better or for worse, is an arbiter––and cultural signifier––of taste. Follow his lead and you are assured a sensuous journey, albeit one that never goes too far beneath the surface. In the years since’s Call Me By...
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Fantasia Review: I Am Frankelda, Mexico’s First Stop-Motion Feature, Speaks Truth to Power
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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...
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NYFF63 Will Open with North American Premiere of Luca Guadagnino’s After the Hunt
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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...
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Folktales Review: An Evocative Portrait of Self-Discovery in Norway
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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...
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Fantasia Review: Terrestrial is a Pitch-Black Sci-Fi Comedy
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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...
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Leonardo DiCaprio Has No Fear in New Trailer for Paul Thomas Anderson’s One Battle After Another
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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...
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