The Film Stage

NYC Weekend Watch is our weekly round-up of repertory offerings. Japan SocietyA celebration of Ryuichi Sakamoto has begun, featuring Tokyo Decadence, a rare 35mm print of Wild Side, Royal Space Force, and more. Film ForumMasaki Kobayashi’s Kwaidan begins playing in...

There may be no living filmmaker on a better run than Ryusuke Hamaguchi. With Happy Hour, Asako I & II, Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy, Drive My Car, Evil Does Not Exist, Gift, and now All of a Sudden, the...

The long-overdue 4K restoration of Serpent’s Path was a little delirium-inducing. Once a fan favorite almost exclusively accessed on low-res rips, now a Janus Films release that—especially with their recent acquisition of its perhaps-even-greater companion Eyes of the Spider—will eventually...

A24 dropped a bombshell on the fall-movie season with last weekend’s surprise Telluride premiere of Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim’s Elizabeth Holmes documentary You Can See Everything. Its next festival stop has now been revealed along with a specific October...

It’s been a year since Kamei Yara’s dad disappeared. The 16-year-old who lives on Okinawa’s main island has been a bit of a wreck since, but he’s holding it together on the surface in The Color of the Sun, writer-director...

The war has just ended and the summer has begun. It’s 1945 in Copenhagen, Denmark, and Nazi rule is no more. Hope abounds, but there’s a new hypocrisy afoot in the anarchic phase of society that immediately sprouts up—one that...

Following Ida and Cold War, Paweł Pawlikowski returned to Cannes with Fatherland, a drama starring Sandra Hüller and Hanns Zischler, and which earned him a Best Director prize. Ahead of a New York Film Festival premiere and theatrical release from...

After premiering in Spain and then coming to Cannes Film Festival, Pedro Almodóvar’s latest feature Bitter Christmas will finally be coming to North America this fall. After stopping at TIFF and NYFF, Sony Pictures Classics will open the meta drama...

A true cult classic and an underground cinema landmark championed by the likes of Susan Sontag and Amos Vogel, E. Elias Merhige’s 1989 experimental feature Begotten has now received a new 4K restoration. Following the premiere of the restoration at...

To say what Casey Affleck’s Company is really about is to spoil its major twist. It’s not a Sondheim thing, I can tell you that. But outside of setting and framework, there’s not much else I can divulge about plot....