The Film Stage Show Ep. 531 – Top 10 Films of 2023
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Welcome to a new episode of The Film Stage Show! Ahead of the Oscars, Brian Roan and Robyn Bahr share their favorite films of 2023 and more best-of-the-year picks. Enter our giveaways, get access to our private Slack channel, and...
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Watch Takashi Miike’s iPhone-Shot Short Midnight
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Takashi Miike works, still, at such a tireless pace that it was just a matter of time until he shot an entire project with the camera in his pocket. Strange though it is seeing the man behind Audition and Ichi...
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Sing Sing Trailer: Colman Domingo Finds Healing Through Performance in Acclaimed Drama
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With a major last 12 months, starring in half a dozen films and receiving an Oscar nomination, Colman Domingo’s best performance of the bunch is in Greg Kwedar’s drama Sing Sing. A TIFF premiere that was picked up by A24...
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Glitter & Doom Review: Indigo Girls Musical is Colorful, Charming, and Ultimately Shallow
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Let’s start here: the production design in Tom Gustafson’s Glitter & Doom is impeccable, colorful, and memorable. Too often these days films lack an adventurous color palette. Here we have a welcome outlier. Production designer Geo Martínez breathes life into...
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Trailer for The People’s Joker Brings DC-Skirting Film to Theaters
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For a little while it seemed The People’s Joker might be lost to time, a new generation’s Day the Clown Cried or, if you like, Promises Written in Water. Despite an initial screening in TIFF’s Midnight Madness program, director Vera...
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Claire Denis Confirms New Film The Fence, Hints at Second Project
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Just last summer it was learned Claire Denis would soon location-scout her new feature in Cameroon, where she grew up and would use as a central area for Chocolat and White Material. Because scoop sites were not exactly running through...
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Med Hondo’s Masterful West Indies: The Fugitive Slaves of Liberty Receives New Trailer Ahead of Restoration’s Debut
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There’s no movie that operates quite like Med Hondo’s West Indies: The Fugitive Slaves of Liberty, a decades-spanning yet extremely cloistered musical about the horrors of slavery and colonialism––essentially the most dazzling take one could have on such blood-chilling material....
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Richard Linklater Casts Zoey Deutch as Jean Seberg in His French New Wave Film
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Between last week’s release of his under-the-radar documentary God Save Texas: Hometown Prison and the June release of his wildly entertaining crowdpleaser Hit Man, Richard Linklater is embarking on his next film. Set to shoot this month and April in...
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The Film Stage Show Ep. 530 – Dune: Part Two (with Max Evry)
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Welcome to a new episode of The Film Stage Show! Brian Roan and Robyn Bahr are joined by Max Evry (author of A Masterpiece in Disarray: David Lynch’s Dune. An Oral History) to discuss Denis Villeneuve’s Dune: Part Two. Enter...
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Renate Reinsve on A Different Man, Another End, and Life After The Worst Person in the World
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At the start of 2022, in the lead-up to the Oscars, Norwegian actress Renate Reinsve was in the spotlight. So was the story of how close she came to quitting acting before Joachim Trier offered her the role of Julie...
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