The Film Stage

NYC Weekend Watch is our weekly round-up of repertory offerings. BAMMy ten-film Manoel de Oliveira retrospective Mirror of Life begins, with numerous restorations making their North American premiere. Roxy CinemaEraserhead and An American Tail screen, the latter for free. Anthology Film ArchivesThe...

Welcome to The B-Side! Here we talk about movie directors! Not the movies that made them famous or kept them famous, but the ones that they made in between. Today we talk about two legends: Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger!...

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. Bring Them Down (Christopher Andrews) Christopher Andrews’ Bring Them Down is an endurance test with no...

While horror films function as an important part of this writer’s interest in cinema, it’s been hard not to feel some growing personal contempt for the genre. The reason being not just the high/low budget demands of the market oversaturating...

Miguel Gomes’ Best Director victory at Cannes likely struck a small but passionate group of cinephiles as a greater win for the cause. It had been nearly 20 years since his first feature, The Face You Deserve, debuted to extremely...

Last year I was fortunate to see a rough cut of Invention, a new film by Courtney Stephens (Terra Femme, The American Sector) that toes the documentary-fiction boundary more nimbly than most: it stars Callie Hernandez as a woman seeking clarification on...

Despite a bit of a delay, Warner Bros. is at least displaying some confidence in Paul Thomas Anderson’s highly anticipated One Battle After Another, debuting its first trailer six months before the director’s biggest project yet––sporting a budget reportedly somewhere...

One of the most thought-provoking, densely assembled documentaries of the year is just a week away from release. Alexandar Horwath’s Henry Fonda for President, which premiered at Berlinale last year, is a three-hour journey through the career of the legendary...

Note: This review was originally published as part of our 2024 New York Film Festival coverage. Việt and Nam opens in theaters on March 28 from Strand Releasing. “Leave the light on. It’s easier for me to dream.” The opening...

Note: This review was originally published as part of our 2024 New York Film Festival coverage. The Friend opens in theaters on March 28 from Bleecker Street. Independent filmmaking duo Scott McGehee and David Siegel’s The Friend, their newest in...